UDHR at 60: Human Rights, Secularism and Shari’ah
…Muslims believe in human rights but their bill of human rights is not one composed by a committee of scholars and leaders, resolved and promulgated by a government or a representative assembly. Rather, they believe in a bill of human rights which is eternal and whose author is Alla- Subhanah wa Ta’ala (SWT)
-Ismail R. Al Faruqi,
Professor of Islamic, Temple University, Philadephia
Let us neglect this opening quotation, for now, and commence this piece by congratulating every human rights activist, and of course humanists, ...