Dr. Jasser Auda
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Against Islamophobia and Islamic Extremism

The Role of Universal Principles There is mutual reinforcement and great many interesting similarities between views expressed by Islamophobes and Islamic extremists. The following passages propose that it is necessary for sound scholarship to defy, both, Islamophobes and Islamic extremists via a balanced position that is based on widely-accepted universal

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Islam & Development

With a 2004 estimate of 1.48 billion followers, Islam is the religion of roughly 23 percent of the world’s  population (based on CIA Fact Sheet 2004). Most Muslims live in the region that extends from North Africa to South East Asia, but Muslim minorities across Europe and the Americas are the second or third largest religious communities

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