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  1. My Book and My Friend

    • 30 January 2012 • 0 comment

    “I am an avid reader and, as an attorney, have been trained to critique language and spot the weaknesses in arguments. And yet by the time I was halfway through the Quran, I realized I could no longer read it as a cultural experiment or as an idle intellectual pursuit……. I knew I was reading words sent down by God…”

    Tags Article Natalie Abraham

  2. Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show

    • 23 January 2012 • 0 comment

    “The Arabs had no conception of an exclusive religious tradition, so they were deeply shocked when they discovered that most Jews and Christians refused to consider them as part of the Abrahamic family..”

    Tags Article Karen Armstrong

  3. Britain’s imperial echoes have led it to a ruinous decade of wars

    • 27 December 2011 • 0 comment

    “The UK has been belligerent to the Muslim world – while not being threatened by any state…”

    Tags Article Simon Jenkins

  4. The US is blind to the price of war that is still being borne by the Iraqi people

    • 21 December 2011 • 0 comment

    Every effort must be made to thwart those who seek to embellish and distort America’s lamentable legacy in Iraq

    Tags Article Gary Younge

  5. Too busy for 5 daily prayers?

    • 16 December 2011 • 0 comment

    “When I moved from trying to fit prayers into my life to fitting my life around my prayer schedule, I instantly removed a great deal of clutter from my daily routine…”

    Tags Article Daliah Merzaban

  6. Cultural Investment is the way forward

    • 5 December 2011 • 0 comment

    “We have the alternative of being Muslim extremists or being extremely Muslim. And I don’t accept the category of “moderate” at all because it is far from clear. Because when it is used usually by Western pundits and politicians, what is intended is anything other than a form of Islam that politically doesn’t obstruct present Western policies…”

    Tags Abdal-Hakim Murad Article

  7. A warning we should heed

    • 5 December 2011 • 0 comment

    “The message of Islam is that pursuit of money for its own sake is unnatural, inhumane, and will lead us to catastrophe…”

    Tags Abdal-Hakim Murad Article

  8. Reaching Beyond the Kaaba During Hajj

    • 4 November 2011 • 0 comment

    In the center of Masjid al-Haram you see the Kaaba. A simple cube like structure made of dark rough stones with white chalk filling the fissures. At the first sight a shiver runs through you and you wonder in amazement … This plain and empty structure is the center of our faith, prayers, love, life [...]

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  9. Less Mosques, More Charity

    • 26 October 2011 • 0 comment

    by Abarahim Appel September 30, 2011 from www.altmuslim.com It was announced recently that 40,000 Bank of America employees are being laid off. My heart feels broken over the news. It seems like every time there is a chance that we as a country can pull together and work through this, something else knocks us back [...]

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  10. Our market-shaped way of life has no time for the elderly or the art of caring

    • 17 October 2011 • 0 comment

    “What we have lost is any concept of honouring the elders, respect for their frailty, and recognition that supporting their final years before death is important for all of us – that death is a part of what makes all of our lives meaningful…”

    Tags Article Madeleine Bunting



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