1. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   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. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
3. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
4. Double Standards
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
5. Free speech for me - you shut up
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the princple of free speech.
   
6. The God Delusion
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
   
7. Infidel
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
   
   
   
8. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
   New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 2002
   
9. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
   A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. Muslim Canadian Congress
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
11. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
12. No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
13. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
14. The Rage of the "Righteous"
    On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Over and over, in the wake of 9/11, Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have proclaimed that all Muslims must not be judged on the basis of the few that are terrorists. Yes, it was Muslims that flew the airplanes into the World Trade towers, but most Muslims are not like that.
    That's very true. Each individual should be judged only on the basis of his or her own behaviour. So then why are all Danes being judged on the basis of one Danish cartoon? Why has an embassy been burned? Why have Danish products been taken off shelves?
    
15. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
    
16. Skeptical Inquirer
    The Magazine for Science and Reason - Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public. Also promotes science and scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in examining important issues.

Experts on Religious Fundamentalism in the Sources Directory

1. John D. Dadosky, Ph.D., S.T.D.