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Ziauddin Sardar

Beliefs

Ziauddin Sardar’s insight into society and faith with a particular focus on Islam

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Forced marriages disgrace Islam

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 27 March 2008
  • 20 comments

The first step to dealing with honour killings in the UK is to criminalise forced marriage.

What is going on at the British Council?

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 13 March 2008
  • 1 comment

The idea that culture is best promoted by organising effete tours of writers and artists has passed

The real lesson of Easter Island

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 28 February 2008
  • 3 comments

Ancient cultures provide societies responsible for devastating climate change with a contemporary means of guilt replacement

The archbishop, sharia and gay rights

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 14 February 2008
  • 13 comments

On the issue of equality it is not just the sharia that needs reform, but all monotheistic faiths

Will you marry me - temporarily?

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 07 February 2008
  • 10 comments

This year, the Iranian interior ministry has launched a huge campaign to encourage the country's frustrated youth to seek sexual fulfilment in muta marriages

Don't put your girl in TV, Mrs Worthington

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 24 January 2008
  • 1 comment

Behind the sparkle and allure of broadcasting, a new kind of slave trade is developing

A common heritage for global peace

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 06 December 2007
  • 6 comments

It is just not good enough to say that love of God will conquer all differences and usher in peace and harmony all around

Muslims have a sense of humour

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 11 October 2007
  • 3 comments

In Britain we've had gay sitcoms, black sitcoms and even a couple of Indian sitcoms but Muslim sitcoms?

Lifting the veil on the Islamic catwalk

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 27 September 2007
  • 8 comments

Our own Shazia Mirza has become an icon of Islamic fashion thanks to a style that combines fashion, religion, politics and aesthetics to signal a new Islamic cosmopolitanism

British citizens of history

  • Ziauddin Sardar
  • 13 September 2007
  • 3 comments

Jack Straw's green paper The Governance of Britain, published in July, has provided the best laugh I've had in years

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