Author Archives
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Combating lies with the truth
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Christians: don’t get on the anti-Muslim bandwagon – it will backfire on you too
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Al-Furqan
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Sufi Texts from Ibn Taymiyya
Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328) and his love of Tasawwuf and the leading Sufis. A short audio lecture by Abdal Hakim Murad. For more please visit: http://www.nursari.com
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Dr Jonathan Brown – The Message of Peace: Spread by the Sword?
Published on 11 Apr 2016 Muslim Students’ Association – University of Maine, Orono – Islamic Awareness Week 2016 – Dr. Jonathan Brown – “The Message of Peace: Spread by the Sword”
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Archangel Michael, Vladimir Borovikovsky
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He was just a man, not God.
John 8:40. “you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.”
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Tragic
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Jay Smith to leave Pfander Ministries and go home.
Americans have a reputation for being loud-mouthed and aggressive. There are many Americans who are not like this of course, but American missionary Jay Smith fits the caricature to a T. After many years of lying about the Prophet Muhammad and… Read More ›
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Sounds reasonable to me..
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Shari’ah is not a human construct but the Divine Law
Contrary to Adam Deen and the Quilliam Foundation the basic thesis is one of trying to make the human order conform to the Divine norm, not visa-versa. To speak of the Shari’ah as being simply the laws of the seventh… Read More ›
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same sex marriage
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Deportations to begin!
With a satirical front page for their Sunday edition, the Boston Globe is giving readers a look at what they believe America would be like with Trump as president. As the fake headlines make clear, the Globe’s editors are not… Read More ›
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Unbelievable? Are the Gospels based on eyewitness testimony? Bart Ehrman vs Richard Bauckham: Saturday 09 April 2016 2:30:00 pm – Premier Christian Radio
Bart Ehrman’s new book ‘Jesus Before the Gospels’ makes the case that the stories about Jesus would have changed and evolved before they were written down as the Gospels.Richard Bauckham, author of ‘Jesus and the Eyewitnesses’, defends the view that… Read More ›
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Trad Catholic joke
As a crypto-medievalist I sympathize with this joke
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Revd Dr Richard Burridge and the amazing claims of Jesus
The Revd Richard Burridge is Dean of King’s College London and Professor of Biblical Interpretation. He is recognised as a leading expert on the gospels. His acclaimed work is entitled: What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. He has… Read More ›
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Excuse me Sir
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The Christian Head Covering Movement
The Head Covering Movement has created this fascinating visual presentation of 1 Corinthians 11. It helps show the structure and flow of Paul’s argumentation about the importance of head covering something Islam also teaches (though for slightly different reasons). Paul also… Read More ›
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Dear West: a Muslim’s response to the aftermath of terrorism
This video is in response to the aftermath of terrorism; that includes the expected condemnation of the Muslim community as well as the horrific revenge attacks we have faced. To end my poem I mention a list of events I… Read More ›
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Great minds/average minds/small minds: which are you?
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The Single Blogpost New Testament Commentary
Reblogged from Chrisendom. Article by Dr Christopher Tilling of the Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King’s College London. He has a great blog and a wicked sense of humour. Is this the Fundamentalist NT Commentary Edition? Or is it closer to home? Is… Read More ›
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Here’s Why Young Men Become “Terrorists” (Hint: It’s Not Islam) And What We Can Do About It
Looking back at the attack carried out by the El Bakraoui brothers in Brussels, Belgium, I cannot help but notice how news media, intellectuals and politicians blame “Islam” or ISIS for this tragic event. Such a conclusion is overly simplistic…
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The British Library’s oldest Qur’an manuscript now online
7th April The British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165, dating from the eighth century, has now been fully digitised and is available on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site. Among the most ancient copies of the Qurʼān, it comprises 121… Read More ›
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If Jesus is called Lord, does that make him God?
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Rethinking language: “Islamism” as a dirty word
By Jonathan Brown, an American scholar of Islamic studies. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law. Reblogged from Brookings. Published April 2016. Rethinking language: “Islamism” as a dirty word Much depends on whether… Read More ›
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Are you f*cking kidding me?!?
Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The one understandable goal of ‘Islamic State’ the media (except the Guardian) will not tell you about
reblogged from todays Guardian Lawrence of Arabia wouldn’t have been surprised by the rise of Isis. TE Lawrence was always angry about the British betrayal of the Arabs in the Sykes-Picot agreement. A century on, the borders it established are falling… Read More ›
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Guide us to the straight path
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James White: Nabeel Qureshi needs to stop telling people he is a former devout Muslim
Published on 6 Apr 2016. James White: Nabeel Qureshi needs to stop telling people he is a former devout Muslim
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What Would ‘Good’ Islamic Reform Look Like?
Exclusive new article by Adil on a burning issue facing Muslims Does Islam need reform or not? Is the affirmative a self evident truth or is ‘reform’ something antithetical to Islam? If the latter, is this because Islam is so… Read More ›
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