Revd Peter Mullen is a British clergyman ordained in the Church of England. This is an extract from his hard-hitting article in The Salisbury Review. What he says applies with equal force to Muslims and traditional Jews of course. Democracy has no… Read More ›
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The Alignment Dawah Project have produced a nice poster for my talk
This is possibly the weirdest thing I have ever watched. It seems to originate from the wilder shores of the Alt-Right which is in the ascendant in the US and Europe. Muslims are advised to be mindful of the threat and counter… Read More ›
Shariffa Carlos amazing Journey to Islam The story of how I reverted to Islam is a story of plans. I made plans; the group I was with made plans, and Allah made plans. And Allah is the Best of Planners…. Read More ›
by Jonathan Brown who is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Is it just me, or is being a Muslim in the US a rollercoaster ride? There’s so much… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
From BBC News
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 ›
How can we foster an ‘English Islam’? In this presentation given at the ‘Very English Islam’ garden party at Woking Peace Garden, September 2016, Dr Timothy Winter of Cambridge University examines the shared traditions between Englishness and Islam. The English… Read More ›
Professor Brown tells us of the behind the scenes work needed to write his brilliant article “Stoning and Hand Cutting—Understanding the Hudud and the Shariah in Islam” He also discusses what is “cruel and unusual punishment” – comparing shariah and Western understandings…. Read More ›
Can you guess how this statistic might be true? I’ll reveal the answer after I get some responses..
Professor Jonathan AC Brown has just posted this cri de coeur on Facebook. This semester my students read critiques of liberalism alongside “critiques” of Islam (like by career native informants). As the semester went on I kept thinking: You know,… Read More ›
I found this beneficial and thought you might too
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s shock election, Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad urges us to consider where this dramatic shift in global politics is headed.
Occasional Blogging Theology contributor Izzy (aka JOURNEYERBLOG) has posted this ‘sex education’ video on Facebook. He says “This is how my kids will learn about sex.” I say it is inappropriate for a number of reasons. What do you think? How… Read More ›
The British PM is right to speak up for our Christian heritage which has come under relentless secular pressure for generations. Christianity is on its deathbed in the UK. Islam is the faith of the future, but I for one… Read More ›
Watch this video. Maybe not all of it! Sense the power, the confidence – and the youth! – the vast numbers of Polish anti-Islamic nationalists. There is a social and political revolution growing in Europe. Embryonic at the moment, but… Read More ›
The United States, 20th January 1939: Should the US government permit 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children to come in from Germany?
Muslim Sharia councils = BAD * Jewish Beth Din = Good * Christian Parish Councils = Good * Challenge the narrative
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