Progressive Muslims seek universal rights
Recently, 12 Muslim reformers, would-be Luthers and armchair imams and mere concerned citizens, signed a manifesto against a New Totalitarianism. The manifesto made claims such as, “We must assure universal rights to oppressed people.” The article generally called for the values of liberal democracy, first articulated in the Enlightenment and further refined against the dread totalitarianisms of fascism, Nazism and Stalinism, and rejected the cultural relativist’s argument that since many Muslim communities do not have a tradition of rights, Muslims have no rights.
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