ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: WHAT CLASH? ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?

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• Dr. Amedee Turner QC Hon. MEP
• Friday 04 November 2011, 17:30-18:30
• Garden Room, St Edmund's College, Mount Pleasant, CB3 0BN.

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Professor Samuel Huntington’s allegation of “An Inherent Clash of Civilisations” between Islam and the West has been examined in round table discussions of lay Muslims in Britain, the US and continental Europe.

The results of these discussions have been disseminated by Amedee Turner in over a hundred meetings throughout Britain and the US , in the context of the compatibility of democracy and Islam, many in universities with the participation of Muslim academics.

Amedee Turner is a Barrister, Queens Counsel 1976. Member of the European Parliament, 1979-1994. Chairman of Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee (Organised Crime, Europol, Immigration and Terrorism) 1992-1994. Rapporteur of 40 European Parliament Reports. Chief Whip European Democratic Group 1989-1992. Senior Counsel, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly 1995-1999. Senior Counsel, APCO Europe Ltd. 1995-1999. Senior Counsel, WorldSpace UK Ltd 1999-2001. Chairman of Georgian President’s conference on the economic potentialities 1998. Advisor to the Russian Federation Patent Office 1997-1999.Resident advisor to the Macedonian Parliament on democratic procedures 2001-2002. Member of Advisory Council of Anglican Observer to the United Nations 2002-2006. Publications- The Law of Trade Secrets 1964,1967 (Sweet & Maxwell, London & New York), The Law of the European Patent 1979 (Garland, New York), Manuals for the Macedonian Parliament Democratic Procedures 2002, Numerous studies for the European Commission 1995-2007. While a member of the Advisory Council of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations he initiated a project on Islam and democracy measuring their compatibility and published a report “Muslim Grassroots in the West Discuss Democracy” http://www.muslim-grass-roots-discuss-democracy.com/ .

He is currently preparing a paper “Everything that is Actually in the Qur’an Described by a Non-Muslim Westerner for Non-Muslim Readers” and would appreciate comments on the first draft also available at http://www.muslim-grass-roots-discuss-democracy.com/.

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