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Politicising Blasphemy in Indonesia: How Islamic Alliances Are Established
Melbourne Asia Review, issue 4 (2020), 8 pp.
"Conservative Muslim groups have been very successful in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, in efforts to construct blasphemy as a serious threat to the Islamic community. These groups attempt to formalise Islam in state institutions in a way that rejects liberalism and pluralism;
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Blasphemy and Religious Defamation: What Are the Limits to Our Freedom?
TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 31-58
"Incidents of blasphemy and religious defamation occur around the world, often provoking angry, and sometimes violent reactions from religious adherents. However, laws prohibiting blasphemy and religious defamation are heavily criticised as being against freedom of speech, despite their effect on ra
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Blasphemy and Apostasy “Laws” in the Muslim World: A Critical Analysis
Valparaiso, Indiana (US): Valparaiso University School of Law (2018), 40 pp.
"This chapter reviews the laws of apostasy and blasphemy in the Muslim world, by looking particularly at Pakistani and Malaysian cases. It strongly argues that the death penalty in the laws of apostasy and blasphemy is untenable in the modern period. The chapter demonstrates that these laws conflict
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Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Asian Affairs, volume 49, issue 2 (2018), pp. 319-339
"Over the years, Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws have been a central instrument for the persecution of religious minorities. While these laws are colonial in origin, they exist today within the context of a general Islamisation of laws, which combined with the state's inability to hold a monopol
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"As Good as Dead": The Impact of the Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
London: Amnesty International (2016), 66 pp.
"This report details how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws violate human rights, both in their substance and their application – whether this is violations of human rights by the state, or abuses of the laws by non-state actors. The laws do not meet human rights standards and lack essential safeguards t
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Assessing Apostasy, Blasphemy and Excommunication (takfir) in Islam and Their Modern Application by States and Non State Actors
London: Brunel University, Doctoral Thesis (2016), x, 437 pp.
Egypt's Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.
In the Name of God: Faith-Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries
In: Routledge Handbook of Media Law
Monroe E. Price; Stefaan Verhulst; Libby Morgan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 253-268
On Trial: The Implementation of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
Geneva: International Commission of Jurists (icj) (2015), 61 pp.
Blasphemy Law in Muslim-Majority Countries: Religion-State Relationship and Rights Based Approaches in Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey
Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2015), iii, 61 pp.
Prosecuted Beliefs: Indonesia's Blasphemy Laws
London: Amnesty International (2014), 50 pp.
In the Name of God: Faith-Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries
Opennet Initiative (2012), 13 pp.
No Compulsion in Religion: An Islamic Case Against Blasphemy Laws
QUILLIAM (2012), 8 pp.
Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan: A Historical Overview
Islamabad: Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) (2012), 78 pp.
Journalism Ethics Revisited: A Comparison of Ethics Codes in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Muslim Asia
Political Communication, volume 19, issue 2 (2010), pp. 225-250
"Formal journalism ethics, as laid out in codes of ethics by journalism associations and the like, is part of a wider debate on media ethics that has been triggered in the Middle East due to the advent of global media in the region. This study compares journalism codes from Europe and the Islamic wo
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Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires: Popular Video Films and the Propagation of Religion in Northern Nigeria
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 183-205
"In December 2000 the government of Kano State in Muslim northern Nigeria reintroduced shari’a and established a new board for film and video censorship charged with the responsibility to “sanitize” the video industry and enforce the compliance of video films with moral standards of Islam. Sta
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Freedom of Expression in Islam
Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society (ITS), revised ed. (1997), xii, 349 pp.
