1. Born in Bradford 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
4. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
5. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
6. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
7. Dirty Wars
   Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Historian Mark Curtis, presents the history of the British government's sponsorship of radical Islamic terrorism, from Iran, Afghanistan and Libya to the July 7 bombings.
8. 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)."
9. The Empire God Built
   Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
10. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
11. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    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.
12. Globalizing the Culture Wars
    Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are shared by a dwindling minority. The bourgeois capitalist marketplace has reconfigured that which is morally acceptable. Sexual practices among adults are areas of personal erotic experience, protected private activities.
13. God and His Demons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    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.
14. The God Delusion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
    
15. The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
16. How Canada’s Christian right was built
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
17. How to Become a Real Muslim
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 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.
18. Infidel
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
19. Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
20. Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain.
21. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    An in-depth into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths which have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
22. Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
    "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
23. Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish ‘Untouchables’
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel’s Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people’s ethnic and religious purity.
24. Just say no to Sharia law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
25. The Left and the Jihad
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
26. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
27. Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    
28. 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.
29. The Myth of Muslim Conquest
    Less Threatening Than Imagined
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 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.
30. The New Dark Ages
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
31. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
32. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
33. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
34. The Rage of the "Righteous"
    On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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?
    
35. Rushdie rails against Islamic 'totalitarianism'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
36. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
37. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
    
38. 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.
39. Taking on the Religious Right
    A review of God and His Demons
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
40. Touching a Nerve
    No apology for fighting homophobia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
    Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.

Experts on Religious Fundamentalism in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law