The OIC does not speak for Muslims

http://www.iheu.org/node/3277
Date Written:  2008-09-17
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX7975

Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."

Subject Headings

• Civil Liberties
• Human Rights
• Human Rights Abuses/International
• Human Rights/International
• Identity Politics
• Islam
• Islamic Fundamentalism
• Islamic Law
• Muslim Communities
• Muslim Cultures
• Muslims
• Religious Tolerance
• Secularism
• Shari'a Law
• United Nations