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 […]

Date & Time: Sunday, 16 February 2014, 10AM-1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Damansara Heights, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-islam-a-threat-to-freedom-of-expression-tickets-10364559677 “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to […]

Date & Time: Sunday, 16 February 2014 / 3-5PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, KL In the early 20th century, an erudite scholar Imam Muhammad Abduh has argued that Muslims could not simply rely on the texts provided by medieval […]

Date/Time: Monday, 17 February 2014 Venue: Conference Room, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=10355630971 “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers” [Recep Tayyip Erdogan] Since Erdogan and […]

Date: Saturday, 15 February 2014 Time: 0900-1800H Venue: White Box, Publika, Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/colloqium-freedom-of-expression-tickets-10251902717 One of the assumptions in the dialogue of the civilizations is accepting the variety of ideas and religions. The civilizations are based on different […]

“So long as humans exists, the struggle will not cease between dogma and free investigation, between religion and philosophy; a desperate struggle in which, I fear, the triumph will not be for free thought, because the masses dislike reason, and […]

Dalam bukunya The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah (2006), Karen Armstrong menekankan bahawa agama adalah faktor yang tidak boleh diketepikan dalam wacana awam. Penekanan ini terutamanya benar dalam apa yang disebut “Dunia […]

In her book The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah (2006), Karen Armstrong asserts that religion is a factor that cannot be ignored in public discourse. This assertion is particularly true in the […]

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. [John Stuart Mills, On Liberty] Budaya pembulian dan sekatan wacana bukanlah […]

Date: Saturday 7 December 2013 Time: 10AM – 1PM Venue: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-and-the-future-of-political-islam-tickets-9586165479 Ever since Francis Fukuyama predicted the clash of civilizations that would dominate global politics, political Islam has been a central point of […]

Jiwa umat ketika ini melalui pergolakan yang getir. Pelbagai cabaran datang daripada luar, politik ekonomi dan juga ketenteraan. Namun dunia Islam tidak dapat menggunakan paradigma lama, misalnya dunia Islam lawan dunia Barat. Dunia Islam hanya satu konsep yang tidak mempunyai […]

Persoalan Islam, negara dan demokrasi sering mendambakan pencerahan dan pemahaman dengan nafas baru yang bertenaga. Terdapat kecenderungan keterlaluan untuk mensakralkan kitab turath – yang walaupun diakui amat monumental – namun masih kurang mampu memberi pencerahan yang segar terhadap beberapa persoalan […]

Belakangan sedang gaduh bahwa Partai Demokrat berbenah habis-habisan. Secara mistis, bahkan harus mengorbankan “anak emasnya” sebagai tumbal. Nyatalah bahwa mantan ketua partai, Anas Urbaningrum diperkarakan karena status tersangka disematkan oleh KPK di dadanya. Alhasil, si terduga kasus korupsi Hambalang ini, […]

The slaying of Imam Husain along with dozens of his family members and followers at Karbala on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (Ashura) is an event that has the greatest of significance for humanity for several reasons. Here, I would like […]