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. 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 principle of free speech.
   
3. The lessons we have learned
   Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2002
   A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
4. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 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."
   

Experts on Religious Tolerance in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
2. Radical Digressions
3. Women Living Under Muslim Law