Date: Sabtu, 21 Jun 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Bukit Damansara Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seminar-pemikiran-reformis-siri-i-buya-hamka-tickets-11855138037 Syaikh Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah atau lebih dikenal mesra sebagai Buya Hamka (Februari 17, 1908 […]

Media agenda is such a tricky thing that some issues of not paramount importance always have a chance to become incredibly popular in the public discourse. These distortions indeed have narrowed down the reality to very limited issues. I noticed […]

Date: Sabtu, 7 June 2014 Time: 10AM – 1PM Venue: Hotel Perdana, Kota Bharu, Kelantan Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perdebatan-tentang-negara-sekular-tickets-11628305575 Sesungguhnya keseluruhan pandangan yang fundamental daripada projek Islamis berakar pada ide tentang kedaulatan Tuhan. Sebarang bentuk kerajaan yang lain asasnya hanya merupa upaya manusia […]

Date: Sunday 18 May 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-rethinking-islam-and-liberal-democracy-tickets-11640718703   “If by democracy is meant the liberal model of government prevailing in the West, a system […]

Job Description: Special Officer to the Executive Director of Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) Introduction Islamic Renaissance Front [IRF] is established and registered as a company limited by guarantee under the Company’s Act 1965 on 30th October 2007. It is an […]

Date: Saturday, 17 May 2014 Time: 0900AM -0600PM Venue: Studio R, Renaissance Hotel, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/colloquium-on-freedom-of-religion-with-dr-anas-at-tikriti-tickets-11535997479 Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) adopted in 1966, mandated freedom of religion and stated that no one […]

Date & Time: Sunday 18 May, 4PM – 6PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usrah-on-has-political-islam-failed-tickets-11594662949 The “Arab Spring’ that opened a door for Islamists to come to power through ballot boxes posed a serious challenge to the […]

Date: Tuesday 20 May 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Law Faculty, University of Malaya Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-has-the-arab-spring-turned-into-islamist-winter-tickets-11594670973 The Arab Spring has given much hope to many Muslims around the world. It somehow signifies a new beginning, a new […]

IRF will organize a colloqium and forum with DR ANAS Altikriti in Kuala Lumpur on the next week from 17-23 May. The following is Dr Anas’s profile for the participants and guests who would like to know more about him: […]

by Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa The Kelantan Deputy Mentri Besar, Datuk Mohd Nik Amar proposal for surgeons to amputate the hands of thieves under hudud laws is simply vile and outrageous. Perhaps Nik Amar did not realize that the universal […]

The topics of democracy, liberalism, human rights are not new in contemporary Malaysia. However, with almost every discussion some  new points are promoted or strengthened at one of the contesting sides. Remarkably, promotion of the debates does not reduce the power with […]

Date: Sunday, 27 April Time: 3:30PM – 5:30PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in […]

Date: Sunday, 27 April 2014, Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Damansara Heights, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-women-after-the-arab-spring-political-and-social-rights-tickets-11292998663 The Arab Spring had seen the rise of young people who demanded a new kind of […]

Anjuran: Pemuda PAS Lembah Pantai Tarikh: Khamis, 17 April 2014 Masa: 800 – 1100 PM Tempat: Dewan Parameswara, Shah’s Village Hotel Pendaftaran: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-perjuangan-hak-asasi-manusia-antara-agama-tanpa-kebebasan-dan-kebebasan-tanpa-agama-tickets-11232477643 Antara perkara utama yang menjadi pertelingkahan antara pelbagai gerakan Islam di Malaysia adalah isu Hak Asasi Manusia. Hak […]

Oleh Mustafa Akyol Diterjemahkan oleh Dr Ahmad Nabil Amir Sejak permulaan abad ini, ia telah menjadi masyhur di Barat, dan terkadang malah di Timur, untuk berhujah bahawa Islam perlukan “Martin Luther”-nya. Maka dengan itu, autoritarianisme, nyah-tolerer dan keganasan yang dilakukan […]

Mr Chairman, Distinguished Professor, Professor Muhammad Kamal Hassan of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Deans, Professors, Fellow Academicians, ladies and gentlemen. Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah Allow me to take all of you down my memory lane so that the […]

Since the beginning of this new century, it has become popular in the West, and sometimes even in the East, to argue that Islam needs its “Martin Luther.” Accordingly, the authoritarianism, intolerance and violence perpetrated in the name of Islam […]

Dominasi Dan Kesedaran Palsu Kita perlu mengakui dan sedar bahawa pada waktu ini sudah nyata wacana yang berlaku yang telah mengembalikan kembali posisi zaman gelap  dan masa hadapan yang sulit bagi mengangkat  kebebasan dan hak mereka yang tertindas. Maka persoalan […]

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering” [Karl Marx  dalam “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”] Seorang filsuf Jerman kenamaan, Karl Marx, menyampaikan bahwa, […]

Dalam buku The Second Message of Islam, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha melihat bahawa akan berlaku perubahan di dalam hukum Islam sebagaimana perkara perubahan itu boleh berlaku di dalam kehidupan yang lain. Menurut beliau, asas penelitian ini adalah ke atas kandungan al-Qur’an […]