Great Virtues Islam Endows upon Islamic People
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Allah tells Muslims in Quran: 3.110 “You are the best people, raised for the good of mankind”. And certainly there are. The following are the great Islamic qualities that distinguish them from others.
Free Speech Campaign: “Allah is Muhammad’s Imaginary Friend”
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Freedom of speech cannot be granted. It can only be taken. Take it now!
Egypt: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
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Back in June 2009, in an article entitled Democracy Not An Instant Panacea For The Islamic World, I wrote that “…there is an extremely dangerous fallacy gaining strength in intellectual circles. It is the fallacy that democracy can save the Islamic World from its tyrants and deprivations and, in turn, save the non Islamic World from Islamic terrorism.”
How Muslims carried Hindu Wisdom to the West, Part 2
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It has been mentioned in the first part of this article that Caliph al-Ma’mun (R. 813-33) founded a library called Bayt al-Hikma or House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where Greek, Persian and Hindu scholars used to meet. It had also engaged a group of translators for rendering manuscripts from Sanskrit, Greek and other languages into Arabic. This House of Wisdom had played an important role in the transmission of Hindu numerals to Europe.
Egypt: Between Dictatorships and Revolutions
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The choice in Egypt is not between good and bad, it is between bad and worse. Many in the Muslim world lack the understanding of what is hindering them as well as a lack of a moral and legal foundation for forming a stable democratic political system. I fear that my brothers and sisters in Egypt will embrace extremism...
