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Recent & Selected Articles

  1. This is a small sampling of articles related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as education, children, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.
  1. US Still Fighting “Threat” of Liberation Theology (March 5, 2013)
    The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized movements for social justice in Latin America as a threat to its economic domination of the region.
  2. Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism (October 3, 2012)
    Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.
  3. Here We Go Again (September 14, 2012)
    One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
  4. Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz? (February 28, 2012)
  5. Connexions Archive Case Statement (September 24, 2011)
    Working together to secure a future for the past
  6. Politics and the Prayer Warriors (September 14, 2011)
    Dominionism is a totalitarian movement within Christian evangelicalism that aims at taking over the centers of power—law, culture, government and the like—and establishing a dictatorship. Once having gotten power, Christian Dominionists would then impose their religious practices on the rest of America.
  7. US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church (September 14, 2011)
    The war on liberation theology.
  8. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia (January 1, 2011)
    When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The amalgamation of racial, ethnic, religious and national identities into a demonic Islamic “Other,” has been spreading throughout the United States as well as Western Europe.
  9. Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies (August 2, 2010)
    Rabbis who are among the leading idelogues of the growing fascist movement in Israel say that violence against non-Jews, including the killing of babies, is justied by religious law. According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. In a recent boo, they say #There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us".
  10. Sharia Law in Britain – A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights (June 17, 2010)
    One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
  11. Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle (May 11, 2010)
    Church leaders seem to forget that pedophilia is a felony crime and that, as citizens of a secular state, priests are subject to its laws just like the rest of us. Clerical authorities repeatedly have made themselves accessories to the crime, playing an active role in obstructing justice, arguing that criminal investigations of #church affairs# violates the free practice of religion #- as if raping little children were a holy sacrament.
  12. How Canada's Christian right was built (May 7, 2010)
    The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
  13. How to Become a Real Muslim (April 18, 2010)
    When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a #radical# in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite # a #radical# is a religious fundamentalist.
  14. Taking on the Religious Right (March 24, 2010)
    Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
  15. The Myth of Muslim Conquest (January 13, 2010)
    It#s easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
  16. Just say no to Sharia law (November 19, 2009)
    Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
  17. Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  18. Rabbis Take on Settlers (October 21, 2009)
    Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
  19. How not to understand Islamist politics (October 17, 2009)
  20. Which side are you on? (October 17, 2009)
    The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
  21. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays (September 13, 2009)
    Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry # and hundreds are feared to be victims.
  22. On Islam And Gender Equality (August 18, 2009)
    A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
  23. 'Take me to your leader' (April 23, 2009)
  24. The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism (2009)
    Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
  25. Say It Loud, Say It Proud: There is No God (2009)
  26. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? (December 16, 2008)
    History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
  27. The OIC does not speak for Muslims (September 17, 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."
  28. The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez (2008)
    Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
  29. The Theology of Respect (September 22, 2006)
    What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
  30. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism (August 16, 2006)
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
  31. Sharia "Socialists" (January 6, 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.
  32. Born in Bradford (2005)
    Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
  33. The Islamophobia Myth (2005)
    Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
  34. Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence (2004)
    From the Atheists of Silicon Valley Humor Page.
  35. Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution (2004)
    Why is it that all of the world's great religions, though disagreeing greatly about theology, nonetheless concur on the Golden Rule? The explanation must be that there is something common to all human beings that is captured by the Golden Rule and reflected in all of these religions.

Selected Websites and Organizations

  1. This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with education and children in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as education, children, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.

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    Books, Films and Periodicals

    1. This is a small sampling of books related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as education, children, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.

    1. American Taliban
      How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right
      Author: Moulitsas, Markos
      America#s main international enemy#Islamic radicalism#favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
    2. Chasing a Mirage
      The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
      Author: Fatah, Tarek
      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.
    3. The Empire God Built
      Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
      Author: Foege, Alec
      A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
    4. 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
      Author: Blackford, Russell; Schuklenk, Udo (eds.)
      A collection of essays from international figures in fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who explain why they are atheists.
    5. Foundations of Christianity
      Author: Kautsky, Karl
      I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
    6. From Fatwa to Jihad
      The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
      Author: Malik, Kenan
      Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
    7. God and His Demons
      Author: Parenti, Michael
      Parenti examines the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history. This is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. The focus is on the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
    8. The God Delusion
      Author: Dawkins, Richard
      Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
    9. In the name of GOD The abuses of religion
      New Internationalist August 2004
      Discusses the relationship between religion. The role of religion within political issues.
    10. Islam Resistance and reform
      New Internationalist May 2002
      A look into the world of Islamic faith. Discussion of current issues and a look at key moments of Islamic civilazation.
    11. The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
      Author: David, Merrly Wn; Sardar, Zia
    12. Spiritual Warfare
      The Politics of the Christion Right
      Author: Diamond, Sara
      Sara Diamond ponders the threat the Christian Right poses to our society, the damage already done, and the extent of this evangelical religion's enduring political clout.


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