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Elections, New Muslims and New School

Today, there is no shortage of self-styled ‘experts’ who rush to issue fatwas, and who provide an ever-growing list of things that are bid’ah, [innovations] or haraam [forbidden]. If you take all these people seriously…

Anti-semitism

We must root out this sinister cultural flaw. Even vote-hungry politicians fail to see anti-semitism for what it is.

Nurture the Tree of Islam

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…

We must not accept this repression

The application of the Islamic penal code – known by the widely misunderstood term sharia – in Muslim societies is one of the most controversial subjects in the dialogue between the west and the Muslim world…