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Topic: Israel and Palestine
I hope I hardly need to point out that we are dealing here with one of the most complex, bitter and long-standing conflicts in the world in the last 100 years, and that this conflict has far-reaching implications for the…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine
Is there another approach to Christian Zionism? The promises given to Abraham and all the prophecies in the OT have to be interpreted in the light of the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus. The OT must therefore…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine
Zionism is a very obvious example of religion bound up with politics. The majority of the early Zionists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries were secular Jews, while the majority of orthodox Jews opposed…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East
There has been a dramatic decline in the number of Christians in the Middle East and they face some difficult dilemmas. At the time of the Islamic Conquests in the 7th century, a few thousand Muslim Arabs were ruling over…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized
The answer to this question must be an emphatic NO! There are plenty of situations where Islamists do not resort to violence. But at the same time they face a real dilemma. They want their society to be more consistently…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized, History & Politics, ISIS, Israel and Palestine, Quran & Hadith, Radicalism
There are typically two responses to ISIS. ‘ISIS has nothing to do with Islam’ or ‘ISIS are the real Muslims’. It’s easy to understand why so many Muslims—especially in western contexts—dissociate themselves from ISIS. They are thoroughly embarrassed to think…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized, History & Politics, ISIS, Israel and Palestine, Quran & Hadith, Radicalism, American Muslims, Radicalism
Clearly it was the rapid spread of ISIS in Iraq and the capture of Mosul in June last year which made us all sit up and take notice. But we might not have been so surprised if we had known…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized, History & Politics, ISIS, Israel and Palestine, Quran & Hadith, Radicalism, American Muslims, Radicalism, Comparative Religion, History & Politics, Radicalism
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘POLITICAL ISLAM’ AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM OTHER KINDS OF ISLAM? I hope we’ve all got past the stage of speaking about ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ and begun to get used to ‘Islamism’, ‘political Islam’ or…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized, History & Politics, ISIS, Israel and Palestine, Quran & Hadith, Radicalism, American Muslims, Radicalism, Comparative Religion, History & Politics, Radicalism, History & Politics, Radicalism
Is it strange that we’re addressing the question of political Islam at a meeting where the main focus is on the many movements of Muslims all over the world turning to Christ? Were the organisers of this meeting aware of…
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Topic: Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, History & Politics, Middle East, Radicalism, Uncategorized, History & Politics, ISIS, Israel and Palestine, Quran & Hadith, Radicalism, American Muslims, Radicalism, Comparative Religion, History & Politics, Radicalism, History & Politics, Radicalism, History & Politics, Radicalism
Assuming that we’re not talking about Islamists who reject the use of violence and are committed to work through democratic processes to create a more just Islamic society, but about Islamists who turn to violence, this would by my 10-point…
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The Unseen Reality: A Panoramic View of Spiritual Warfare
