"The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides." - Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

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Decolonizing Human Rights: An Urgent Plea for Rebuttal (Video) On July 20, 2017, Professor Abdullahi An-Na’im gave a memorial lecture at Oxford University in the UK. His lecture was entitled, Decolonizing Human Rights: An Urgent Plea for Rebuttal. “Human beings who are the subjects of human rights must be the authors of what those rights are.” – Professor An-Na’im Read More

Dialectic of Civil Rights and Human Rights in the Law and Policy of the USA (Video) On October 25, 2017, Professor Abdullahi An-Na’im, gave a lecture at Emory University titled, Dialectic of Civil Rights and Human Rights in the Law and Policy of the USA. “The exclusion of human rights in US domestic law and practice is really a tremendous failure and threat–as I was just saying now–to the United States. And Read More