By Father Frank Breivik as Herostratus Anders Breivik, the Viking mass-slayer, is he like Herostratus? A Greek citizen of the famed city of Ephesus. In 356 BC, on the same night Alexander the Great was born, Herostratus set fire to the temple of the goddess Artemis, one of […]
Discussion forum held at the Australian National University, Canberra on 9 April 2012 entitled “Belief in God: Prohibitive or Liberating?”. Dr. Lawrence Krauss and Uthman Badar discuss the following and related questions. Is belief in God rational or irrational? What role should religion play in our private and […]
MDI America: Jesus – Prophet or God? Islam vs. Christianity Guest Speakers: Donald Wolan – Pastor and Mission Team Leader of Downriver Christian Community Church in Melvindale, MI Shadid Lewis – Convert to Islam, member of the Muslim Debate Initiative & President of the Hampton Islamic Center in Hampton, […]
Article From SeekersGuidance Answered by Ustadh Faraz A. Khan Question: I’ve recently been reading about abrogation in the Qur’an, and I am now supremely confused. Some people say that there is no abrogation, some people say that only a few verses were abrogated (mostly dealing with inheritance), and […]
I invite you to read the following insightful article by Hamid Dabashi (Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York). An excerpt: ‘Given the history that culminated in the Jewish Holocaust, Jews around the globe, including Israel, have every right to get agitated with a […]
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