1. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
2. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
3. Just say no to Sharia law
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
4. A Left Voice in Pakistan
   Against The Current vol. 131
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
5. My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
6. The New Dark Ages
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1996
   For hundreds of millions of people in parts of the Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia, the ascendancy of Islamic fundamentalism has ushered in an era of religious obscurantism and intolerance. The liberal, compassionate wing of Islam - although it still has large numbers of adherents - is being forced onto the defensive and increasingly eclipsed.
7. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   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."
   
8. One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
9. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
   The Case of Shari'a in Canada
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
10. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
11. Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
    Resource Type: Article
    'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
12. The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
13. Sharia Law in Britain -- A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
14. Sharia "Socialists"
    I.S. Upholds Anti-Woman Religious Courts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It is mind-boggling that self-styled leftists would champion a campaign by the most reactionary, anti-woman forces in the Muslim community to have their religious law backed by the authority of the capitalist state.
15. 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2104
    Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
16. UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
17. What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.

Experts on Scharia in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law