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The complete infidel's guide to free speech (and its enemies) / by Spencer, Robert,1962-author.(CARDINAL)671892;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Freedom of speech; Censorship; Blasphemy (Islam); Freedom of speech.; Censorship.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Blasphemy : a memoir : sentenced to death over a cup of water / by Bibi, Asia.(CARDINAL)608438; Tollet, Anne-Isabelle.(CARDINAL)608439;

A black hole -- Blasphemy -- I can no longer see the stars -- Death by hanging -- The Christian minister -- Happy Christmas -- The Pope's message -- They kill the governor -- They kill the minister.In June 2009 a Pakistani mother of five, Asia Bibi, was out picking fruit in the fields. At midday she went to the nearest well, picked up a cup, and took a drink of cool water, then offered it to another woman. Suddenly, one of her fellow workers cried out that the water belonged to Muslim women and that Bibi - who is Christian - had contaminated it. "Blasphemy!" someone shouted, a crime punishable by death in Pakistan. In that instant, with one word, Bibi's fate was sealed. First attacked by a mob, Bibi was then thrown into prison and sentenced to be hanged. Since that day, Asia Bibi has been held in appalling conditions, her family members have had to flee their village under threat from vengeful extremists, and the two brave public figures who came to Bibi's defense - the Muslim governor of the Punjab and Pakistan's Christian Minister for Minorities - have been brutally murdered. In "Blasphemy", Asia Bibi, who has become a symbol for everyone concerned with ending the violence committed in the name of religion, bravely tells her shocking and inspiring story and makes a last cry for help from her prison cell.

Subjects: Biographies.; Bibi, Asia.; Religious discrimination; Christian women; Christian biography; Women death row inmates; Death row inmates; Blasphemy (Islam);

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Joseph Anton : a memoir / by Rushdie, Salman.(CARDINAL)156461;

On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Rushdie was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and various combinations of their names. Then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.This book is important because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Rushdie, Salman; Rushdie, Salman.; Authors, English; Authors, Indic; Fatwas; Protective custody; Islam and literature; Blasphemy (Islam); Freedom of the press;

Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19

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Code of honor / by Cameron, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)349290; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013,creator.(CARDINAL)293728;

Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Loyola University. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest. There's one other twist to the story. President Ryan discovers a voicemail on his private cell phone from the priest warning about a coming attack against America...

Subjects: Novels.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character); Presidents; World politics;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Tom Clancy code of honor / by Cameron, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)349290; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013,creator.(CARDINAL)293728;

Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest. There's one other twist to the story. President Ryan discovers a text on his private cell phone from the priest warning about a coming attack against America...

Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character); Presidents; World politics; Terrorism; Priests; False imprisonment;

Available copies: 108 / Total copies: 136

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Reopening Muslim minds : a return to reason, freedom, and tolerance / by Akyol, Mustafa,1972-author.(CARDINAL)339891;

Includes bibliographical references and index.A NIGHT WITH THE RELIGION POLICE -- A SELF-MADE MAN: HAYY IBN YAQZAN -- WHY THEOLOGY MATTERS -- ISLAM'S EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA -- HOW WE LOST MORALITY -- HOW WE LOST UNIVERSALISM -- HOW THE SHARIA STAGNATED -- HOW WE LOST THE SCIENCES -- THE LAST MAN STANDING: IBN RUSHD -- WHY WE LOST REASON, REALLY -- BACK TO MECCA -- FREEDOM MATTERS I: HISBAH -- FREEDOM MATTERS II: APOSTASY -- FREEDOM MATTERS III: BLASPHEMY -- THE THEOLOGY OF TOLERANCE -- EPILOGUE."A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an 'Islamic Enlightenment' today. In 'Reopening Muslim Minds,' Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses 'the crisis of Islam' in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earliercenturies. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment - freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science - had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, 'Reopening Muslim Minds' borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future"--

Subjects: Islam; Islamic civilization.;

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13

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Heaven on earth : a journey through shari'a law from the deserts of ancient Arabia to the streets of the modern Muslim world / by Kadri, Sadakat.(CARDINAL)363265;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-352) and index.Pt. 1. The past. Layng down the law ; From revelations to revolution ; The formation of the law schools ; Commanding the faithful ; ThThe Sunni challenge and the Shi'a response ; The Caliphate destroyed : A shadowless god ; The reinvention of tradition : Salafism -- Jihad : a law-torn world -- pt. 2. The present. Innovation and its discontents : Islamic law and the challenge of change ; Punishment and pity : the modern revival of Islamic criminal law ; "No compulsion in religion"? : apostasy, blasphemy and tolerance ; Heaven on earth"In the wake of the colossal acts of terrorism of the last decade, the legal historian and human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri realized that many people in the West had ideas about the origins and implications of the shari'a, or Islamic law, that were hazy, contradictory, or simply wrong. Even as "shari'a" became a loaded word and an all-encompassing explanation, most of us remained ignorant of its true meaning. And we were doing this at our peril. In Heaven on Earth, Kadri brings lucid wit and analytical skill to the thrilling and turbulent story of Islam's foundation and expansion. He shows how legal ideas gradually evolved out of thousands of reports about the Prophet Mohammad, most of which were not even written down until two centuries after his death. And he explains how, just in the last forty years, the shari'a has been appropriated and transformed by hardliners desperate to impose their oppressive vision. In the second half of the book, Kadri takes us on an extraordinary journey through more than half a dozen countries in the Islamic world, where he explores, in striking detail, how the shari'a is taught, read, reinterpreted, reverenced, and challenged--beginning at the eight-hundred-year old Indian grave of his Sufi mystic ancestor, and ending in Cairo's City of the Dead, where one of Islam's greatest legal scholars still gets daily requests for legal miracles twelve centuries after his death. Heaven on Earth is a brilliantly iconoclastic tour through one of history's great collective intellectual achievements, as complex as the religion that brought it to life. The shari'a continues to shape both explosive political circumstances and the daily life of more than a billion Muslims, and Sadakat Kadri has given us a compelling and clarifying portrait of a changeable world of faith, reason, and justice"--

Subjects: Islamic law;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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