Mercy: The Understated Sign of Islam
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 Role of Emotions in a Supposedly Rational World: A Dangerous Oversight
We live in a world that glorifies few things more than reason. And rightly so. Everything around us reminds us of the power of reason…
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 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…
Silence that Amounts to Complicity: The Terrorism that Western Politicians and Media Don’t Talk About
Since the attacks of 11/September/2001 on the USA, terrorism has been presented in the West as the most immediate danger to the globe. You cannot…
Myths About “The Verse of the Sword”
Statements by scholars dating back to the 3rd century Hirji have claimed that the following verse, which has become known as “the verse of the…
