Title | From the pulpit to the studio: Islam’s internal battle |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Echchaibi, N |
Journal | Media Development Online |
Keywords | Islam, Muslim |
Abstract | In February 2006, when Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American activist in Southern California who advocates secularism in Muslim countries, defiantly told an Islamic sheikh on a widely popular Al-Jazeera news show 'to shut up and lis- ten, it's my turn', she knew she was making history on Arab television. Never before has the authority of Islam represented on this show by a conserva- tive sheikh from. Cairo's famed Al-Azhar University been challenged in a similarly brazen way by another Muslim, and much less so by a woman. |
URL | http://rolandoperez.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nabil-echchaibi.pdf |