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A hadith
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Islam and homosexuality lecture
Sheikh Kazi Luthfur Rahman has kindly invited me to give a lecture on Islam and Homosexuality on Sunday 5th February at 7pm, under the auspices of the Alignment Dawah Project. More details to follow. And yes, it will be filmed inshallah…. Read More ›
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Pretty much…
Izzy claims ‘It’s a parody of what some fundamentalist Christians think about atheists.’ But I just don’t see any parody.
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Beware Pseudo-Scholars & Half-Baked Knowledge!
(reblogged from The Humble “I”) The best proverbs manage to capture important ideas in just a few words. One well-worn Arab proverb has it that: nisf al-‘ilm akhtaru min al-jahl – ‘Half-baked knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.’ ‘The greatest enemy of… Read More ›
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Never too cold for prayer.
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Yale: “The Synoptic Gospels do not portray Jesus as preexistent”
This will come as a shock to most people to learn that New Testament scholarship is broadly in agreement that the gospels of Matthew and Luke do not portray Jesus as preexistent and have no awareness of the notion of the… Read More ›
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Blessed are the peacemakers
It’s good to know that not all Christians are extremists like Sam Shamoun, David Wood and Neil Littlejohn. Some like Daniel Kirk here, a Christian professor of the Bible, are peacemakers and reach out to the ‘other’ in compassion. They will get… Read More ›
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Revisiting ‘I Have Been Commanded To Fight…’ Hadith
Originally posted on Discover The Truth:
Kaleef K. Karim This is a part two on this Hadith report (below) which is often quoted out of its historical context. In the previous piece, which can be seen here: “The Hadith ‘…Fight… -
Missionary Fail! Nazam & Paul vs Christian Missionary
Missionary tries to tell Muslims that lying is acceptable in Islam but when the tables are turned and lying is pointed out in the Bible, things get a bit awkward for him. 2 Thessalonians 2:11: “For this reason God sends… Read More ›
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Visions of Jesus? Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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If God does not exist, is everything permitted?
There’s a famous passage from “The Grand Inquisitor” section of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. If there is no God, then there are no rules to… Read More ›
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Translations of the Jewish Scriptures especially toxic to Christians, Rabbi Tovia Singer explains
Responding to caller, Rabbi Tovia Singer illustrates how Christian Bibles deliberately manipulated Jewish text and wove numerous Christologies into their “translations” of the Jewish Scriptures. Moreover, Rabbi Singer explains, Christian children are not trained in the Hebrew language. This renders… Read More ›
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A Woman by Robert Campin (about 1435)
(Belgian; National Gallery, London) source
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The 3 kinds of people
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Why do kids leave the church?
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One day, computers will meet all our needs
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US government offers irrefutable proof of Russian hacking
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Polygamy anyone?
The background to this tweet concerns ongoing arguments in the Roman Catholic church about Pope Francis seeming to allow remarried Catholics to receive holy communion (which is contrary to traditional church teaching). Why not polygamists? These marriages were acceptable in the Bible… Read More ›
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Mobile dawah
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The devil is less the author of our destruction, and more the author of our distraction.
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God: the Ultimate Concern
Beautiful The Humble I At the heart of Islam stands the reality of God: Allah, the One, the Absolutely Perfect, Unique, Eternal, Beautiful, Loving, Infinitely Kind and Compassionate, All-Knowing, All-Hearing, All-Seeing, beyond what man can ever conceive, yet nearer to… Read More ›
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The Republic of King Jesus – Professor Alec Ryrie
A fascinating lecture about extreme Christianity
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Christian theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch
In the days after World War II, a convenient story was told of church leaders and ordinary Christians that defied the Nazis from the beginning. Recent research has uncovered a very different story. Rather than resisting, the greater part of… Read More ›
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Dr Jonathan AC Brown – Sharia & Forbidding Evil: Limits and Etiquettes | 15th MAS ICNA Convention
Another new video
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THE ERASURE OF ISLAM FROM THE POETRY OF RUMI
By Rozina Ali. Reblogged from The New Yorker. A couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits…. Read More ›
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Today is the 540th anniversary of the death of Charles the Bold
Today’s is the 540th anniversary of Burgundy’s darkest day, with the death of Charles the Bold on January 5th, 1477. This is the most famous portrait of him, by Rogier van der Weyden, from about 1462, currently in the Gemäldegalerie… Read More ›
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6 common misconceptions about Salafi Muslims in the West
by Anabel Inge. Reblogged from: Salafism, often referred to as ‘Wahhabism’, is widely regarded as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that fuels Jihadism and subjugates women. Some even lump ISIS and Salafism together—casting suspicion upon the thousands of Muslims who identify… Read More ›
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you couldn’t make it up
From BBC News
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Jonathan Brown | Reshaping the Contemporary Muslim Mind
The American Muslim community is under pressure to conform and let go of its morals and beliefs. Due to the negative climate and constant barrage of Islamophobia, many Muslims lose hope or suffer trauma and anxiety. This session will help… Read More ›
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“True Singularity” (توحيد حقيقي)
Originally posted on StandingUnder:
Flakes of snow falling. Each the first and last of its kind. All just water. Unique landscapes of ridges meander like streams. All just flesh and blood. One map for one land. Coiled strands of information…
Blogging Theology 