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Islam Articles
Iran Era Hasan Rowhani
[Baca langsung di Koran Tempo.] oleh Jennie S. Bev Presiden Iran terpilih yang dikenal moderat Hasan Rowhani...
Letter from Mhammed Hassine Fantar
This morning, Robert Amir Berry of The Common Ground News emailed me a letter from a reader on my article "Why 72...
Why 72 Percent of Indonesians Want Sharia
[Read this article in English on The Common Ground News.] [Read this article in French on Le Soir and JOL.] [Read this...
Jakarta Election Results in Vote of Confidence for Pluralism
[Read this article directly on The Common Ground News.] [Baca artikel ini dalam versi berbahasa Indonesia di The...
The politics of ‘holier than thou’
by Jennie S. Bev The recent harassment of visiting Canadian author Irshad Manji, police refusal to grant a permit for...
Toward humane reasoning in Indonesian Islam
by Jennie S. Bev Human beings have been searching for the Divine outside ourselves. We have forgotten that we...
Interpreting Koran as the source of living fatwas
by Jennie S. Bev In Indonesia, clerics and their “political” organization Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) have been...
Lessons from the Jews and conflict resolution
by Jennie S. Bev The historical backdrop of the Israel-Palestine conflict can be traced back 5,000 years to 3000 BC....
Anniversary of Indonesian Riots Spurs Talk on Pluralism
[Read directly on CommonGroundNews.org.] San Francisco, California - This month marks the 12th anniversary of a...
The Koran as a text of compassion, pluralism, and free will
by Jennie S. Bev The holy month of Ramadan has come. It is Kairos time for Muslims worldwide, a special time of the...
When a fatwa is not necessarily a “fatwa”
by Jennie S. Bev In five short years, Facebook’s members have reached 200 million worldwide. If it were a country, it...