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Following the London (Woolwich) Stabbing Attack – Mosques and Muslims are Attacked in Response (1)

May 23, 2013 • Current Affairs, Featured

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ , Update: Exclusive Photos of EDL Members in Balaclavas + Threatening to kill Muslims tonight (scroll down to see + Independent UK’s Post on EDL Violence Tonight). As Muslims, we fully condemn violence of this kind, we do not endorse it nor do we accept it as being okay. Shaykh Omar Suleiman had this to… Read More ›

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Condemnations of Woolwich Stabbing Pour In from UK Imams and Mosques (0)

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We are not responsible, the act of one does not represent us all, especially if that act goes against the  teachings of Islam. This was a view expressed across the entire Muslim community in the UK, from community workers, to Imams, all joined in unison to make clear the distinction between Islam, and the deluded… Read More ›

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Upcoming event “The Beauty Within” (0)

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MDI’s Zara Faris has been invited to an all-sisters event at the Kanoon Towhid centre in Hammersmith, London, UK. The Advert is below: Join us for the most inspiring event of the year ‘The Beauty Within’, bringing together community leaders, talent, creativity and the modern Muslim Women. The day includes a variety of talks on… Read More ›

Spotlight »

Bill Maher refuted on TV by Glenn Greenwald on US intervention in Muslim countries (2)

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Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn Greenwald for trying to absolve the US from any responsibility for the mass slaughter and destruction in Muslim countries, blaming it on Islamic fundamentalism, as if the Afghanistan and Iraq wars never happened, as if the US wasn’t pushing for more war in Iran, as if it isn’t… Read More ›

Islam »

A testament to 7th cent Islamic Society: Rabbis relax Jewish laws to compete with appeal of Islamic law (0)

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“In short, Islam has offered the Muslim woman some unequalled rights: she can end the marriage through khula’ and she can sue for a divorce. A Muslim wife can never become chained by a recalcitrant husband. It was these rights that enticed Jewish women who lived in the early Islamic societies of the seventh century… Read More ›

Christianity »

The fallacies of Dr William Lane Craig’s argument for the Trinity (5)

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‘As the greatest conceivable being, God must be perfect. Now a perfect being must be a loving being. For love is a moral perfection; it is better for a person to be loving rather than unloving. God therefore must be a perfectly loving being. Now it is of the very nature of love to give… Read More ›

Atheism »

Atheist Hypocrisy and Gender Segregation (13)

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Richard Dawkins is apparently angry at a Muslim-Atheist debate that was held in London on Saturday 9th March between Prof. Lawrence Krauss and our colleague in Muslim apologetics, Hamza Tzortzis. At the event, the Muslim organisers, catering to the preferences of some of the attendees, made available to people so inclined, areas suggested for women or men… Read More ›

Western Political Systems & Ideology »

Sheikh Abdal-Hakim Murad falls victim to the hypocrisy of Liberal ‘tolerance’ (10)

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On Thursday 2nd May 2013, the UK newspaper, the Daily Mail published an article attacking our brother, and esteemed scholar, Abdal-Hakim Murad for a recently available internet video expressing Islamic theological opinions on homosexuality given in a lecture that was 17 years ago. Following on from this has been a myriad of calls from the LGBT students,… Read More ›

Feminism »

“If feminism is about female privilege, why are there male feminists, too?” (1)

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Q: “If feminism is about female privilege, why are there male feminists, too?” A: If the BNP is racist, why does it have a Sikh member, too? If the EDL is Islamophobic, why does it have a Muslim member, too? Tokenism is the making of a perfunctory gesture to include members of a target group,… Read More ›

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