Post originally published on Islam21c, 10th August 2015, by Abu Zakariya A popular trend among some Orientalists is to try and attack the Qur’ān by casting doubt on its historical reliability. What should we as Muslims make of these claims? It is important to understand the way historians […]
By: Yazan al-Saadi Published Monday, September 29, 2014 in Al-Akhbar English Much of the grim and murky circumstances of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the late 1940s have gradually been exposed over time. One aspect – rarely researched or deeply discussed – is the internment of thousands […]
On May 9th, 2015 I gave a lecture on Liberalism in Muslim Thought at IMEC 2015 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The lecture touched up on some of the basic principles of Liberalism and the three major effects it has on Muslim-majority societies at large: (1) The degradation of […]
The first time I heard the term ‘whataboutery’ was on a recent BBC Big Question’s debate regarding whether Human Rights has achieved more than religion over the course of human history. Aside from the unsubstantiated self-congratulating apologetics of many of the Human Rights supporters in the panel, what I […]
MDI Comment: The amazing discovery of a very early Quranic manuscript, to possibly within the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammed (saaw) will be a significant coup against attempts by neo-orientalist scholars like Tom Holland and Islamophobes like Robert Spencer at al, who’ve written books questioning the origins of […]
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