By Dr. Muqtedar Khan / The Washington Post Books are repositories of histories, of identities, of values. They are the soul of civilization. A society must abandon basic decencies in order to muster the immoral courage to burn books as a celebratory act. Once it starts burning the souls of civilization, human souls will not be left behind.

Categories: al-Qur'an  Religious Bigotry  Anti-Islam  Propaganda  American Muslims  

Added: September 08, 2010

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By JULIAN E. BARNES And MATTHEW ROSENBERG / Wall Street Journal The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger

Categories: al-Qur'an  Afghanistan  9/11  Taliban  The US  

Added: September 07, 2010

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By Hesham A. Hassaballa / altmuslim.com You can fake prayer: you can pray in front of other people so that they can say you pray. You can fake giving alms; you can fake going to Mecca. But you can't fake fasting. And that is how we can show our love for God.

Categories: Ramadan  al-Qur'an  Allah SWT  Love  Islam  

Added: August 11, 2010

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By staff writers / News.com.au We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches, for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in the U.S.

Categories: al-Qur'an  Religious Bigotry  American Muslims  9/11  Islamophobia  

Added: August 05, 2010

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By LIZ GOOCH / NY Times Some political commentators say the show's popularity reflects the increasing Islamization of this Muslim-majority nation of 28 million.

Categories: Malaysia  Islam  The Ulema  al-Qur'an  Reality TV  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Yoginder Sikand / Countercurrents.org He lauds the Quranic concept of unsullied monotheism, and claims that, if properly understood, the Vedas, too, talk of just one God and vehemently oppose polytheism, idolatry and the worship of avatars and other human beings, which he explains as a later accretion that have nothing to do with true Sanatan Vaidik Dharam.

Categories: Islam  Jihad  Hindutva  Islamophobia  al-Qur'an  Muslims in India  

Added: July 18, 2010

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By Asghar Ali Engineer / Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai In fact what our ulama call shar'i hudud were fixed by men who considered women as secondary to men and unequal in status due to cultural attitude towards women in the medieval era. The whole fiqh has to be thoroughly revised in keeping with the true spirit of Qur'an.

Categories: Fatwa  Islam  al-Qur'an  The Ulema  Gender  

Added: May 25, 2010

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By Michelle Broder Van Dyke /the San Francisco Chronicle "The Qur'an says again and again everything that is around us is a sign of God," van Boom says. "From the Islamic perspective, the seasons, the sun, oceans, trees, mountains, animals, all of these are signs and manifestations of God that we're supposed to reflect on.

Categories: al-Qur'an  Art  American Muslims  Islam  Calligraphy  

Added: May 01, 2010

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By Daniel Oliver If this book was indeed of a miraculous nature, then it was the greatest miracle of all time. Why? Why would a book be greater than Ram's stringing of Shiva's bow, or Moses' parting of the Red Sea, or Jesus' revival of the dead Lazarus? It was greater because, again, if it was indeed a miracle, if there ever was a miracle, this was the only one left standing.

Categories: Islam  al-Qur'an  American Muslims  New Muslims  Lifestyle  

Added: April 06, 2010

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By Maulana Waris Mazhari /Translated by Yoginder Sikand/ Noor Mohammad Sikand The doctrine and ideology of offensive jihad is in accordance neither with Islam's teachings of mercy and justice, nor with reason and human nature.

Categories: Jihad  al-Qur'an  Islam  History  War  

Added: April 05, 2010

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