As earlier demonstrated, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) promotes a whitewashed Islam in the service of, among others, UAE interests. Unsurprisingly, FPPMS speakers often focus upon defending a supposedly humanistic Islam against “Islamophobia,” even as some of the speakers’ own comments and biographies reveal Islam’s darker […]
UAE Forum Promotes Dubious Islamic Peace (Part II)
“This is not a PR campaign; this is not to make us look good,” declared the American Muslim convert Sheikh Hamza Yusuf at the December 5-7, 2018, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Yet the British Muslim academic Usaama al-Azami has decried the FPPMS as precisely “another […]
UAE Forum Promotes Dubious Islamic Peace
“Peace and love are at the center of our religion, as evidenced by scripture and history,” stated Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah at the inaugural 2014 Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Despite his radical past, such positive portrayals of Islam continue to suffuse the recent December 5-7, […]