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CM17: Extreme

Ziauddin Sardar and Samia Rahman suggest that extremism is an expected product of our complex and chaotic postnormal times, Anne Alexander traces the origins of ISIS, John A Sweeney studies 'extreme weirding' - the life-threatening changes in geology and ecology of the planet, Raza Ali is anxious about his love for the Prophet, Farouk Peru castigates the 'Islamofascists', Benedikt Koehler investigates attempts to distribute wealth in early Islam, Gordon Blaine Steffey wrestles with the terminology that defines the terrorists, Elma Berisha takes a tour of religious sites of Southeast Asia, Samir Younes is troubled by mean thought in the Arts, Jerry Ravetz tackles extreme corruption, Sunny Hundal laments the rise of Sikh extremism, Andrew Brown is disgusted with the New Atheists, Talat Ahmed reads Arun Kundnani's The Muslims are Coming, C Scott Jordan forces himself to watch American Sniper, and Rahul Jayaram relates the heart-wrenching story of the Indian labourer who escapes Saudi Arabia by hiding in the aeroplane toilet. 

Also in this issue: A comic strip by Ivan Carromero Manzano, S Parvez Manzoor on sovereignty, Naima Khan on the English rendering of the Pakistani play Dara, a short story by Navid Hamzavi, poems by Ghassan Hassan and Medina Whiteman, Last Word on 'Happy Muslims', and Shanon Shah's Top Ten Jihadi Janes.

In this issue

Postnormal Blues by Ziauddin Sardar and Samia Rahman

Superpowers. Of all the possible superpowers in this best of all possible worlds, which one would you most like to possess? We sought the counsel ...

Top Ten Jihadi Janes by Shanon Shah

There’s an old riddle that is surprisingly current. If you haven’t heard it before, allow yourself some time to answer before reading ...

ISIS by Anne Alexander

The slick violence of the propaganda of the deed which ISIS has made its trademark continues to mesmerise. The threat appears to be everywhere: in ...

Statues of Identity by Elma Berisha

Early last year, in a spontaneous and unplanned meander, I visited some of the landmark Buddhist and Hindu temples in Malaysia, Thailand and ...

Sikh Extremism by Sunny Hundal

In 2005 Rajinder Singh made history by being the first non-white Briton to feature in an election broadcast by the British National Party. ...

The New Atheists by Andrew Brown

The idea of a fundamentalist atheist seems a contradiction in terms. Fundamentalists, at least since the emergence of the term in the early ...