Abdullah al Andalusi

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Abdullah al Andalusi

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My thoughts on Channel 4’s ‘Islam: The Untold Story’ program, by Tom Holland

By Abdullah al Andalusi on August 29, 2012 • ( 12 Comments )

I just saw the Channel 4 program ‘Islam: the untold story’ by author Tom Holland. I found it very amusing, he tried to come up with a alternative explanation for Islam (presumably the ‘untold story’) and admitted failure (along with arch orientalist, Patricia Crone). To boil it down, […]

Of course religious and political public debates happen in the Muslim world!

By Abdullah al Andalusi on December 20, 2011 • ( 7 Comments )

Muslims and non-Muslims who attend debate events or watch the media, commonly hear the ignorant cliche “It’s great that we [in the West] here can have such debates”, or “It’s a shame debates don’t happen in the Muslim world” or my own personal ‘favourite’: “Well, at least we can have […]

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