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Islamic Violence: Socio-Economic Phenomena or Faith Motivated

 

Islamic Violence:

Socio-Economic Phenomenon or Faith Motivated?

 

 

Introduction


Bear kills militants in Kashmir

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A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.

Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar. 

 

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Islam and the Internet

By Wolfgang Bruno.

2005-2-22

Wolfgang Bruno is an author writing a book about the Internet movement of ex-Muslims. All of Bruno’s essays can be freely published and reprinted by anybody who wants to.



Fariel's Testimonial

[color=blue][b]Editor's note:[/b] This testimony was posted on the original FFI site, and copied here on June 18, 2006.[/color] [b]Fariel[/b]

How I Lost My Faith


Who Feeds Fundamentalism

Stories of the atrocities and the bigotry of Muslim fundamentalists embarrass the moderate and educated Muslims who desire to live in harmony with their non-Muslim neighbors and feel nothing but compassion for the rest of the world. As we all condemn these religious extremists who blow the buildings, make bombs and engage in acts of terrorism as misguided fanatics we have to question ourselves whether we have any part in these terrorist acts of our most radical fellow coreligionists.


Debate with a self proclaimed "Secularist" Modernist Muslim

Deabte with Farida Majid



This is a response to a Bengali lady who defends Islam while claiming to be working for the secularization of her country. I sent a copy of that to my freethinking Bengali friends and one of them decided to publish it in the NFB.

20 May 2001

Dear Farida Majid,


What the Pope Actually Said

What Pope Benedict XVI actually said was vastly overshadowed by the Islamic reaction to one line from a lengthy, intellectually complex speech given on September 12th at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

We know by now that the Islamic response was to burn Catholic and Christian churches throughout the Middle East and, in one case, to shoot a nun in the back, killing someone who had labored more than three decades as a nurse to serve the poor in Africa.



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