“I am convinced that Gitmo and other places like Gitmo only exist because its detainees are Muslims. I cannot imagine a Christian Gitmo I cannot imagine a Jewish Guantanamo. It exists because of Islamphobia.” – Michael Ratner (Attorney and the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights).
A common question in the minds of many Muslims. What will be the fate of those who have not heard of Islam or the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)? Shaykh Yasir Qadhi eloquently answers the question from the classical Islamic understanding based on the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Freedom is achieved when one realizes the qualities of shame and humility, and empties oneself of their opposites (shamelessness and arrogance). With these qualities come true freedom, wealth and dignity, which require manumission from the bonds of one’s whims. People may claim to be “free”, yet cannot control themselves […]
Norman Gary Finkelstein is a Jewish American political scientist, activist and author. This month marks 30 years of his campaign against the illegal Israeli occupation.
A German court has ruled that parents can’t have their sons circumcised on religious grounds in a move which has angered Muslim and Jewish groups in the country. The court in Cologne decided that a legal guardian’s authority over a child does not allow them to subject them […]