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Rules for freedom of speech
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Does a ‘de facto blasphemy law’ operate in Britain today?
A sensible analysis from a Facebook friend:
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An Unhelpful Commentary To The “British Islam” Panorama Documentary
I posted this comment on the 5 Pillars site:
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Head of a Damned Soul
William Blake’s Head of a Damned Soul. Picture: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
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A simple answer to a silly question by erudite scholar, Dr Jonathan AC Brown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGh5N7M_TFg Jonathan A.C. Brown (born 1977) is an American Islamic scholar who is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
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Meanwhile in London..
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Kant’s project in The Critique of Pure Reason
Professor Dan Robinson gives the first lecture in this series on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. It remains a matter of controversy as to just what the central project of the Critique is, but surely one objective is to establish… Read More ›
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Saudi Arabia’s history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
BY ROBERT FISK – 15 JANUARY 2015 Sir William Hunter was a senior British civil servant and in 1871 published a book which warned of “fanatic swarms” of Sunni Muslims who had “murdered our subjects”, financed by “men of… Read More ›
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‘I did not go to heaven’: Paralyzed boy admits he made up best-selling book about how he ascended to paradise and met Jesus after car wreck
A boy whose tale of dying and going to heaven after a car crash that became a best-selling book has admitted to making the whole thing up. Alex Malarkey, now 16, lay in a coma for two months and was… Read More ›
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Monteverdi – Lamento della Ninfa
Just love this piece
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Karl has a message
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Don’t mess with this Pope
ont mess
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Allah
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A poet
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Have I been misunderstanding the concept of freedom of speech?
rebogged from The Intercept France arrests a comedian for his Facebook comments, showing the sham of the West’s “free speech” celebration. Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a… Read More ›
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Liquefaction
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History of English
A look at the history of the English language.
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf – The Critical Importance of Al-Ghazali in Our Times
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I’m forwarding this as received. Make up your own minds…
Freedom of Speech in France: For the Powerful, By the Powerful, With the Powerful Leaving aside closer to home; allied British and American Troops repeatedly bombing and killing Al-Jazeera journalists, locking up Moazzam Begg for exposing British collaboration with the… Read More ›
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Tasbih
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Trouble in paradise
Delivered to my office today: an exiting new work by one of the most popular philosophers of our time.
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O Lumen Ecclesiae, Magnificat
O Lumen Ecclesiae, Magnificat antiphon for St. Dominic, sung daily after Compline according to Dominican usage
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Annunciation
Olexandr Melnyk. Annunciation, 1992
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Contentions
Beware the zeal of the uncertain. No-one is zealous for the Pythagoras theorem. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
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The children of Adam
The Prophet (pbuh) is reported to have said, All the children of Adam are sinners, but the best among sinners are those who constantly repent. (Tirmidhi)
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Metaphysics of Salah
Metaphysics of Salah – Hamza Yusuf. A profound discussion of the deep realities of prayer.
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Waiting for Isha prayer earlier this evening
I took this pic earlier this evening at Regents Park Mosque in London
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Freedom of Expression Vs. Freedom from Insult
The recent attacks in France have stirred a debate about freedom of expression and the freedom to insult. In this insightful sermon, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ismail discusses the Islamic viewpoint.
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Shahadah (Square Kufic)
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NEW COURSE: INNER & OUTER DIMENSIONS OF PRAYER
Originally posted on • Rumis.org •:
Join us for a 5 week course where we will be studying Inner and Outer Dimension of Salah focussing on the Kitab al Salah (Book of Prayer) from the Revival of Religious Sciences by Imam…
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