Abdal-Hakim Murad

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  1. 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…”

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  2. 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…”

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  3. British and Muslim?

    • 4 September 2011 • 0 comment

    “Islam’s presence in Britain is not an Islamic problem. Islam is universal, and can operate everywhere. It is not an Islamic problem, but it may be a British problem. Europe, alone among the continents, does not have a longstanding tradition of plurality. In medieval Asia or Africa, in China or the Songhai Empire, or Egypt, or almost everywhere, one could usually practice one’s own religion in peace, whatever it happened to be. Only in Europe was there a consistent policy of enforcing religious uniformity…”

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  4. The Rainbow Culture of Islam

    • 7 July 2010 • 0 comment

    “The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over…”

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  5. Globalised before Globalisation: The Forgotten Legacy of the Muslim Trader

    • 17 October 2009 • 0 comment

    “..if even 1/10 of the wealthy in the Muslim World actually paid their zakat – most of the problems in the Muslim World would be overcome and you would see something of the beauty of the Medinan alternative…”

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  6. Worship with Understanding

    • 3 June 2007 • 0 comment

    Our worldwide family of Islam, the Muslim Ummah, is over one billion strong. How many of us speak Arabic as our mother-tongue? Do you know? Can you guess? The answer is less than 20% …

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  7. Nurture the Tree of Islam

    • 2 April 2005 • 0 comment

    That which is Islamic is in a sense obviously that which is radical because it is rooted. Our’s is a time when to be rooted in the past, to be part of an organic entity that goes back centuries has become the strangest and the most unusual thing…

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  8. Bombing Without Moonlight

    • 1 October 2004 • 1 comment

    It is in this frankly primitive condition that we seek to discuss religious acts which, against all the predictions of our grandparents, claim to interrupt the progress of history towards a world in which there will be no continuity at all…

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  9. Faith & Reason: Muslim terrorists embrace a very secular heresy

    • 1 May 2004 • 0 comment

    Religion is meant to make people happy. Onlookers may frown, mystified, but believers rejoice. This time, the rejoicing is about nothing less than the healing of the torn human heart…

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  10. Muslim loyalty and belonging

    • 2 January 2003 • 0 comment

    The world is at present in the grip of fear. We fear an unknown absence that hides behind the mundanity of our experience; perhaps ubiquitous and confident, perhaps broken and at an end…

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