Excerpt from The New York Times No matter how anxious people may be about Islam, the notion of a Muslim invasion of this majority Christian country has no basis in fact. Moreover, there is an inconvenient footnote to the… Read More ›
Life in the West
Just awful. Muslim Woman Gets Kicked Out Of Donald Trump Rally For Being Muslim
CNN reports: A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump rally on Friday night for no apparent reason. The woman, Rose Hamid, told CNN that she “came to the rally to let Trump supporters see what a Muslim… Read More ›
Is freedom of speech limited?
Fascinating discussions about the double standards operating in the West. Dawahman talks to people on the streets of Paris.
Provoking those at prayer… (or don’t mess with the Muslims)
I have seen an apparently respectable Christian preacher deliberately insult God and his Prophet right in front of praying Muslims at Speakers Corner – but in this video the provocateur got what he deserved.
The Strange Elephant in the Room: Struggles, Passions and Hopes
reblogged from Virtual Mosque By Waheed Jensen Ever since I began trying to understand life, one of the crippling realizations about the Muslim communities I reached was this: we tend to bury our problems in a dark hole, dismiss them… Read More ›
What Really Makes Muslims Leave Islam – part 2!
Part two of this riveting & very timely series by Adil. Absolutely a must read. Speaking for myself, point number 6 below is so very true of certain people I know in London: Muslims start to distrust influential Muslim speakers who may eloquently critique… Read More ›
A Muslim in Texas
There’s only one person in this photo who looks like a terrorist. And it ain’t her.
‘I doubted God after the Paris attacks’: The Archbishop of Canterbury
The BBC tells us that: Paris attacks caused Archbishop of Canterbury to “doubt” the presence of God This statement by the Archbishop strikes me as rather strange and not a little odd. Muslim writer and publisher Louay Fatoohi expresses it very… Read More ›
Living the American evangelical dream
American Christian apologist Carson Weitnauer tells us about the Christian life:
Sending ‘Donald Trump deportation teams’ to the UK
RamZPaul the American video blogger and white nationalist yesterday called for all Muslims to leave Europe and go back to their own countries (!) Today he offered to send ‘Donald Trump deportation teams’ to the UK. His kind offer has some interesting… Read More ›
Facing down the alt-right
RamZPaul is an American video blogger and humorist who has gained notoriety for his YouTube videos, which consist of wry monologues on contemporary politics and society from a white nationalist perspective. He is a leading propagandist for the alt-right. Over the… Read More ›
In Europe we have freedom of speech. Hurrah!
Actually no. Today, an 87 year old German woman, Ursula Haverbeck (above), was sentenced to 10 months in prison for ‘Holocaust heresy’. Agree with her views or not, she is being punished for having the wrong opinion about an historical event 70… Read More ›
What Does Islam Say About Gay Marriage? Dr Jonathan AC Brown
(This article was originally published in July 2015) The recent Supreme Court decision on Obergefell v. Hodges makes gay marriage legal in the United States. Dr Jonathan Brown (above) a professor at Georgetown University explores how gay marriage would be… Read More ›
#thinkaboutit
In Turkey, 86.6% of the people vote in parliamentary elections. In Palestine, 77% of the people vote. In Indonesia, 75.1% of the people vote. In Iran, 64.2% of the people turn out. In Pakistan, 53.6% of the people. Contrast this… Read More ›
British and Muslim?
by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (aka Tim Winter) (Based on a lecture given to a conference of British converts on September 17 1997) It is said that the 19th century French poet Mallarmé can only be fully understood by those… Read More ›
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