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Are Miracles Performed in the Name of Jesus? Rabbi Tovia Singer Responds
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Part 1/2 : Br Hashim & Br Paul Vs Nathan || Speakers corner 2016
last Sunday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGnyegzT3I
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Is Ismaa’eel Abu Adam A.K.A. Converted2Islam, a SECRET CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY ?
interesting…
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Don’t waste your donations on missionaries: give it to the poor
Yahya Snow has some good Islamic advice: don’t waste your donations on Christian fraudsters, give it to the poor. Published on 29 Nov 2016 ‘You just couldn’t make this up. Sam Shamoun and David Wood promoted and fund-raised for ABN’s… Read More ›
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Loving Vincent
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The first chapter of the Qur’an
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Haqq
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Submission
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and… Read More ›
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Good manners
The principal of adab, usually translated as ‘good manners’ but with a much deeper and more universal meaning, is at the heart of Islam. It means good manners towards God, including gratitude for the gift of life, our food, sunlight,… Read More ›
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An awareness of differences is an aspect of intelligence, an aspect of being human.
When westerners, while paying lip-service to the spiritual aspects of Islam, denounce the Islamic social system… they are acting true to form. The imperial tradition did not expire in the 1950s. It changed its focus, and the triumphant civilization still… Read More ›
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WTF!
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‘Alt-right online poison nearly turned me into a racist’
This kind of thing happened to me too a long time ago. I started to scare myself at my growing Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism. For a brief while I became something that’s very common these days: an anti-Muslim, anti-Islam Christian bigot…. Read More ›
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Growing up this Christmas
The Rev James Fields (whom I know personally) has penned this response to my article published earlier today Jesus remembered: ‘ideological tinkering must have gone on from the start’ James writes: I find these thoughts have a powerful and timely resonance. Frankly… Read More ›
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What we never see on TV
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Women wearing the veil
Members of the Blessed Imelda Society of Mater Ecclesiae and the Maidens of the Miraculous Medal of St. John the Baptist, Allentown. The women are wearing the veil as commanded in the New Testament.
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Jesus remembered: ‘ideological tinkering must have gone on from the start’
Dale C. Allison Jr writes: ‘Some of my divinity students, who find themselves threatened by the discourse of the quest [for the historical Jesus], the chief categories of which derive not from Christian theology but from the modern study of… Read More ›
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Interview with Angelika Neuwirth “The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliche”
Interview with Angelika Neuwirth “The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliche” In this interview with Anna Alvi and Alia Hübsch, Prof. Angelika Neuwirth says that the claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age old… Read More ›
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Review of The Study Quran by Bruce Lawrence in The Muslim World
Click to download PDF file
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Master Works of Art Reimagined
Michelangelo, “The Creation of Adam”, 1511-1512, Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling, remake “Hand me a beer”, blokes unknown. for more masterpieces
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RIP
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Remembrance
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Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who defied the U.S. (YES!) died Friday. He was 90
Paul Joseph Watson is a popular right-wing Islamophobe. Damian Thompson is a Catholic journalist.
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A Muslim, Jew, and Christian sit together at a dinner table.
A Muslim, Jew, and Christian sit together at a dinner table. The Jew says “I only follow Moses and his companions!” The Christian responds and says “Well, I accept Moses but follow only Jesus Christ and his way!” The Muslim… Read More ›
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A saying of Muhammad upon whom be peace
The messenger of God said, “No Muslim is afflicted by difficulty, continuous pain, anxiety, grief, injury, or depression, or even by a thorn with which he is pierced, without God making it an atonement for his sins” (Bukhari & Muslim) … Read More ›
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Haiku about Allah – #1 (هايكو عن الله ـ أوّلاً)
Originally posted on StandingUnder:
Free of fatigue and sleep; neither born nor bearing – association. -
When men are called “God” in the Bible
Surprisingly, there are a number of places in the Jewish Scriptures (aka the Hebrew Bible & Old Testament) where beings other than Yahweh are called divine or “God”. I draw on the extensive discussion of key passages in King and Messiah as Son… Read More ›
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The translation of the third clause of John 1:1
I am currently reading an academic work by two of America’s leading biblical scholars entitled: King and Messiah as Son of God, Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature by Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins… Read More ›
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Black Friday
Black Friday is the worst sort of neoliberal exploitation of the working classes, as I just explained to my croissant delivery boy.
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When you meet her father…
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A photo
Richard Zetter hanging out with peace-loving Christians in the US 😉
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