As an effective offset and debunking exercise to some of the recent
anti-Muslimism posts in this forum, I thought that serious readers might
want to review this recent book "Religion, Human Rights and International
Law - A Critical Examination of Islamic State Practices", edited by Edited
by Javaid Rehman and Susan C. Breau, which thoroughly investigates this
subject at great professional length in a non-partisan manner.
<Abstract> ...
Religion, Human Rights and International Law - A Critical Examination
of Islamic State Practices. Edited by Javaid Rehman and Susan C. Breau.
Published 2007 - Brill Academic Publi****ng
Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been
a
source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era,
religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting
concern to the possibility of congenial human relation****ps. As the
present
study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate
discrimination
and inequalities, and to victimize minorities to the point of forcible
assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the
complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law
and an analysis of the cultural religious relativist debate in
contem****ary
human rights law.
As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major
source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a
considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through
the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within
Muslim majority States or through Islamic dias****ic communities resident
in
Europe and North-America.
Javaid Rehman is a Professor of International Law and Director of
Research,
Brunel Law School, Brunel University, London. His specialist research
interests include Islamic Law, minority rights and international
terrorism.
He is a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on
International Law and Islamic Law and is a member of the UK branch of the
ILA. Susan C. Breau is a Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of
Surrey. She was formerly Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London. She was
awarded her doctorate in International Law from the London School of
Economics and Political Science in 2003 for her research into humanitarian
intervention. Her research interests are in the areas of the law of armed
conflict, international organizations law and the International Protection
of Human Rights. She is a member of the Bar of Ontario and is an Adjunct
Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. ...
<End abstract> ...
Full details can be found on the Brill website or visit this link for more
information:-
http://books.google.com/books?id=1DPgGAAACAAJ&dq=Rights+and+International+Law+-+A+Critical+Examination+of+Islamic+State+Practices&ei=fSUSSJb3DY2AsgPdw_CZBg
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Peace
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Allah is one but Islam is a mosaic. The Muslim world is a linguistic tower
of Babel, an ethnic patchwork, a geographical puzzle and a political
kaleidoscope offering a picture of extraordinary doctrinal diversity.
[Slimane Zéghidour]
Zuiko Azumazi
zuiko.azumazi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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