FM5 Freies Magazin http://www.fm5.at/ 2010-03-12T13:30:08Z XML::Atom::SimpleFeed

The West is largely ignorant of Islam and the Muslim world. Today, only Muslim progressive intellectuals are bridging the Islam-West gap. The West should engage a dialogue with moderates, but what is a moderate? And what do they have to say about Islam?

Frank Ejby Poulsen 2010-03-12T07:11:59Z http://www.fm5.at/Dialogue%20with%20true%20moderates

Islamophobia can be described as attitudes or actions. As attitudes it sees Islam e.g. as a retarded monolithic block remote from Western values and permeable to progressive change. This conception is spreading in the West, by means of neo-orientalism.

Frank Ejby Poulsen 2010-03-12T13:37:16Z http://www.fm5.at/Islamophobia%20as%20neo-orientalism

June, 5th 2007 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Six-Day War between Israel and Arab countries; an occasion to reflect on an event, which explains everything that happened for the last forty years in the Middle-East.

Frank Ejby Poulsen 2010-03-12T06:35:46Z http://www.fm5.at/40th%20anniversary%20of%20the%20Six-Day%20War

Sarkozy is elected. What kind of president is he going to be for Europe and the world? Get to know his personality and program from a well informed Frenchman. Dubious is the belief, however, that he will improve the wobbly French democracy.

Frank Ejby Poulsen 2010-03-12T01:10:41Z http://www.fm5.at/Sarkozy%20is%20elected

This series is divided into three articles: first, a critic on the Muhammad cartoons for contributing to islamophobia; second, a discussion of islamophobia as neo-orientalism; and third, an invitation to a "get to know" dialogue with Muslim moderates.

Frank Ejby Poulsen 2010-03-12T07:43:14Z http://www.fm5.at/For%20a%20West-Islam%20dialogue%20instead%20of%20cartoons