Archives

2010

February

• About the Limit

2009

December

• The Ban of Minaret Hardly Stirs Controversy in Muslim World

July

• The Thinker: Reclaiming Pancasila

May

• Discussion on Islam and Capitalism

January

• Obama, Gaza is Waiting for Messiah!

2008

December

• Wahid: A “Prophet” Welcomed Abroad

• Soft Power for the Islamic Movement

October

• 20th Commemoration of the Death of Fazlurrahman

August

• Reorientation of Da’wah and Evangelism

July

• Ahmadiyah’s Controversy in Indonesia — Vying for an Authority

• Islam without Ulama’s Fatwa

• A “Muslim” Note on John Shelby Spong

• Apostasy and Death Penalty

• Islam and Judaism

• The Wahhabis Inferiority

• Strengthening the Pacifist Islam

• Religion and Violence

• Moderate Islam in South East Asia

• Leave it to the Mechanism of Free Market of Ideas!

• Put Yourself in Somebody Else’s Shoe!

• Irshad Manji: “I do believe that moderate Muslims are part of the problem instead of the solution”

June

• “Blaspheming” Islam

2007

November

• Islamic Reformation and the Myth of Westernization

October

• The Bushido Jihad

August

• Ave, Muhammad: a Plea for Reason in the Debate about Islam

July

• Religion à la carte

June

• Islamic Science or Pseudo Science?

• Resisting Religion by Religion

2006

December

• We Need Dearabization of Islam

November

• Abu Syuqqah & Woman

• Islamic Studies Textbook and Violence

• Being a Muslim in the U.S.

• In Memoriam Watt and Geertz

• Prof. Watt’s Sympathy

August

• Free and Liberal

• Textualism, Islamism, and Religious Violence

July

• Bush, Israel, and Hezbollah

• The Fate of Democracy in the Middle East

June

• Faith for Tolerance

April

• Islamic Reformation in Indonesia

March

• Interpreting Tajdid

February

• An Open Letter for People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker

January

• Prophet, Soothsayer, and Poet

• The Heavenly Voice

• Quran, Christmas and Religious Pluralism

2005

December

• Salâmun `alaika yâ al-Masîh! (Peace on You, Jesus)

• The Assimilation Problem of Australian Muslims

• The Terrorist’s Propaganda Works!

• Islam Encountering Enlightenment: Clash or Symbiosis?

September

• Islam, Pluralism, and Freedom of Religion

August

• Human Rights Are Above God’s Rights

• Humanist Fatwa or Violent Fatwa?

July

• Women should Escape from the Circle of Oppression

• Terror upon Ahmadiyya and Freedom of Religion

June

• Reformulating the Relationship between Islam and the West

May

• Controversy of Bilingual Islamic Prayer

• The Echo of Reformation in the Middle East

April

• Amina Wadud’s Breakthrough

March

• A Religious “Overdose

• Democracy a la Indonesian Islam

• Kifaya in the Middle East

• Discourse on Hadith in Germany

• On Being Allah’s Guest

February

• Reorienting Religion in Times of Global Disaster

• Religion as a Source of Violence

January

• Interfaith Statement Concerning Humanitarian Work in Aceh

• Of Hope, Faith, and Frailty

2004

December

• Renaissance and Religious Reformation

• The Devil and the Cosmic Order

November

• Religion Must Benefit Humanity

• Islam, the Essence of Faith and Love

October

• Run Away World

• Liberal Side of Abu Zaid

• Modern Khawarij

• Text and Identity

September

• Shahrur and the Theory of Limits

• Humanizing the Koran

• We are Lucky to Have Karen Armstrong

• Three Religious Orientations

• Islamic Dystopia

• Muhammad: Prophet and Politician

• The Koran and Spiderman

• Shalat

• A Battle of Thoughts

• Islamic Liberalism and America

• Islamic Political Desecration

• Al-Banna

August

• The Permanence and The Change

• God of Goodness, God of Evil

• Holy Books are Gender Biased!

• Progressive Thought is not Socialized

• The Seat of Caliph Bahloul

• A Religious Volcano

• Humanitarian Religion

July

• Heaven of Kiai Majdub

• Beyond Religious Sacralization

June

• About Political Secularism

• Ibn Warraq

• Against the Hegemony of Divine Predestination

• Two Religions