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February 9, 2006

Conference: Rethinking the Secular Perspective On Biology

An international symposium titled "Human Genetic and Reproductive Technologies: Comparing Religious and Secular Perspectives" and organized by the World Health Organization, Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences and Council For International Organizations Of Medical Sciences was held in Cairo, on 6 - 9 February 2006.

At the symposium Mustafa Akyol presented the following paper explaining how recent scientific discoveries challenge the materialist theories on origins.

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Posted by Mustafa Akyol at 7:38 PM | Comments (6)

February 7, 2006

Clash of Civilizations over Euro-Cartoons?

[Originally published in National Review Online]

As a Muslim myself, I understand the disgust of Muslims around the globe at the Euro-cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. A deep respect for God, His revelations, and His prophets is a hallmark of the Islamic faith. In the Muslim culture there are no jokes about God; we take Him and His religion quite seriously. And we abhor those who ridicule them.

However, this sensitivity does not justify the violent, uncivilized rampage that we are now seeing across the Islamic world. They threaten and hurt innocent non-Muslims and do more harm to Islam than any cartoon could do.

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Posted by Mustafa Akyol at 5:10 PM | Comments (16)