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As a Muslim, I’m Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists

By Mehdi Hasan
“And why have you been so silent on the glaring double standards? Did you not know that Charlie Hebdo sacked the veteran French cartoonist Maurice Sinet in 2008 for making an allegedly anti-Semitic remark? Were you not aware that Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet in 2005, reportedly rejected cartoons mocking Christ because they would “provoke an outcry” and proudly declared it would “in no circumstances… publish Holocaust cartoons”?

In search of the Prophet

By Shaykh Sadullah Khan.
“I found my source of adoration for you in the love and respect that the Almighty has proclaimed for you; in the honor that He bestowed upon you; in His confirmation of you as “the ultimate exemplar”; “seal of Prophets” and “mercy unto all existence…”

Trading with “Taqwa”

By Shiban Aktar, OBE
“It is believed by many that the collapse of Rana Plaza was not an accident but the worst form of structural violence….”

Jesus in Islam, by Yusuf Estes

By Yusuf Estes
Yusuf Estes (born in 1944) is an American Muslim preacher and teacher who converted to Islam in 1991. He was the National Muslim Chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons through the 1990s.

Christmas, Jesus and Islam

” Is it all right for Muslims to send Christmas greeting cards to their friends? If someone greets you, saying Merry Christmas, how should you respond? What are the limits we should observe?…” by Dr Hossam Roushdi

You’re a terrorist! No, I am a Muslim.

by Arshad Gamiet
“When rudeness is met with unexpected kindness it immediately changes the paradigm. The one who insults you thinks he’s in control. He wants to provoke you but your courtesy and your dignity throws him off balance. Many of Islam’s enemies were thus conquered by kindness. Allah has the key to all hearts.”