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Yasser Harrak is a Canadian writer, commentator and human rights activist. He is the author of two books:"The Predicators" and "Shiaphobia and the Iranianization of Shiism", both published in Arabic.

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You cannot denounce violence in the present and encourage it in the past by glorifying violent historical figures.

Revolution without evolution is just a waste of lives.

It is an irony to see in some Muslim societies someone who curses God, in his daily slang when angry, go out and protest against the Danish cartoons about the Prophet.

Having liberated the key to a liberatory interpretation and contextualization of the Qur'an, the issue of patriarchal and misogynic interpretations of the Qur'an becomes a societal issue rather than an issue of the religion.

We can imagine the Palestinian identity as a person born in a village prior to the introduction of modern administration; a person whose village was divided between other villages, and whose date of birth is unknown. A person that started struggling to prove she exists in the 1960s and suffers today from a weakened structure and an uncertain future.

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