KHALID DURAN

(Khalid Durán)


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Khalid Duran

In Turkey, Egypt and the Maghreb, men who are ‘active’ in sexual relations with other men are not considered homosexual; the sexual domination of other men even confers a status of hyper-masculinity.
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I find myself, the author of a book written to promote a wider understanding of Islam, under a death threat and in need of protection. CAIR has put my life in peril. Its actions are the culmination of a campaign meant to intimidate and silence not only me, but any Muslim in America who would speak out in favor of freedom, tolerance, and dialogue.
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CAIR is The Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Islamofascism
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Duran has been the subject of major criticism and attack by many who regard the term as too prejudicial and inflammatory, that there is an automatic association in the term of all Islam and Fascism. While Duran’s position is that the term only applies to extremists who embrace values and actions that were consonant with Fascism, there are other Islamic critics who believe that basic Islam is Fascistic per se and the term should be applied to almost everything Islamic.

Some think that origination credit should go to Malise Ruthven who used the word in an article published in The Independent of September 8, 1990

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  • Born: April 4, 1939
  • Died: April 17, 2010
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Khalid Durán (Arabic: خالد دوران ‎) was a specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world. He studied Middle Eastern languages and Islam in Bosnia and Morocco, and sociology and political science at the universities of Bonn and Berlin.