What a refreshing discovery! A website maintained by moderate Arabs and Muslims that promotes peace between the Arab World and Israel. Could we hope that this trend might flourish?
Update: Today I did a quick research and I was proud to discover that the founder is a fellow woman, Nonie Darwish. I also found out about Brigitte Gabriel, a journalist from Lebanon, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, born in Somalia, raised in Saudi Arabia, now Dutch MP, leader of a political party. These women all dare to raise their voices against the direction the Islamic world is taking. They actually risk their very lives in doing so, yet they feel strongly enough to do it.
It dois make me a bit uneasy at first that the above women are actually apostates, that is they are Christian converts, a fact which may be viewed as a contributor to a potentially biased approach to the issue. But then I remembered Wafa Sultan and Irshad Manji, both Muslim women strongly critical of present day Islam. And then there are men, too, like Kamal Nawash of the Free Muslims Coalition, or Hussein Abdulwaheed Amin of the Muslims against Terrorism.
As I continue my search on the net, I will add to this list of my discoveries. I find the phenomenon very encouraging. Muslims of this type may still be a minority, but I very much hope that their number will one day grow to the point of being able to have an influence on the political scene.
