About eighteen months ago, I wrote an article about the particular leadership qualities of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that this beautiful verse reveals: It is…
Mistaking Islam for a State: Misunderstanding Religion and Revering False History
The evil of ISIS has been filling news bulletins with stories that seem to be incessantly in competition to show how low the human being…
The Islamic Caliphate Between Past Myths and Present Delusions
The Islamic caliphate is promoted by its advocates on the basis that it was an ideal system of Islamic government in the past that can…
The Meaning of “Being News”: The Persecution of Religious Minorities by ISIS
The rise of The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and its extreme form of intolerance, persecution of Christians and Yezidis, and brutality have…
The Newborn Christians and Jews that the World Really Needs
In January 2009, I published an article on my other website Qur’anicStudies.com that was triggered by a massive Israeli attack on Gaza, just like the…
Using “al-Salaf al-Salih (the righteous predecessors)” to Misunderstand and Misrepresent Islam
Variations of the term “salaf” have become very common in Islamic religious debates. They are often used by those who associate themselves with this term…
