ARABIC AND MUSLIM VOICES contains links to voices from the Arabic and Muslim worlds
Chahla Chafiq
Chahla Chafiq Radical Iranian writer Chahla Chafiq shared a platform with Salma Yaqoob at last month’s European Social Forum. The two sharply disagreed over the role of Islam in politics
Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed is one of the world’s best-known scholars on contemporary Islam.
Asma Jahangir
Asma Jahangir is a founding member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
Asra Nomani
Asra Nomani was born in Bombay, India into a modern but conservative Muslim family. She came to the UnitedState at age of four and was raised in the foothills of West Virginia. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is a Visiting Fellow and professorial lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. Her newest book is the critically-acclaimed bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran.
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Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel is Christian Lebanese American journalist and author. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth, a think tank dedicated to educating the public about "Radical Islam".
Chahla Chafiq
Chahla Chafiq is radical Iranian writer. she shared a platform with Salma Yaqoob at last month’s European Social Forum. The two sharply disagreed over the role of Islam in politics.
Ahmed Subhy Mansour
Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour is former visiting fellow in the human-rights program at Harvard Law School stated "We Muslims need a thinker like Dr. Pipes, who can criticize the terrorist culture within Islam, just as I usually do.
Ibn Warraqi
Ibn Warraqi is the pen name of an author of several books on Islam. He currently lives in the United States. He is an outspoken critic of Islam who has written extensively on what he views as the oppressive nature of Islam and religion in general.
Irene Zubaida Khan
Irene Zubaida Khan is the seventh and current Secretary General of human rights organization Amnesty International. She has initiated a process of consultations with women activists to design a global campaign by Amnesty International on violence against women.
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Irfan Khawaja
Irfan Khawaja is director of ISIS, which involve three core interests. Some of their members are interested primarily in tearing down religious barriers to secularization in the Islamic world. Some are interested in the fight against Islamic terrorism. And some are interested in offering or encouraging what I’ve elsewhere called a “full frontal” challenge to Islamic doctrine and practice. Our goal is to coordinate these efforts from a unique perspective—that of Muslim apostates and dissenters.
Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji is Canadian author, journalist, and activist. She is a lesbian feminist and critic of Islamic fundamentalism and orthodox interpretations of the Qur'an. She was once described by The New York Times as "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare"
Leila Hanafi
Leila Hanafi is graduate student at GeorgetownUniversity and director of the United Nations Young Professionals for International Cooperation Association - International Law and Human Rights Committee.