by Sadat bin Anwar Ricky Lee Blackwell of South Carolina, Shawn McCoy of North Carolina, and Michael Barbar of California all have one thing in common; they are non-Muslim Americans who have recently been charged or whose court trials are now underway for the crime of murder. Ricky […]
“In short, Islam has offered the Muslim woman some unequalled rights: she can end the marriage through khula’ and she can sue for a divorce. A Muslim wife can never become chained by a recalcitrant husband. It was these rights that enticed Jewish women who lived in the […]
Q: “If feminism is about female privilege, why are there male feminists, too?” A: If the BNP is racist, why does it have a Sikh member, too? If the EDL is Islamophobic, why does it have a Muslim member, too? Tokenism is the making of a perfunctory gesture […]
On Thursday 2nd May 2013, the UK newspaper, the Daily Mail published an article attacking our brother, and esteemed scholar, Abdal-Hakim Murad for a recently available internet video expressing Islamic theological opinions on homosexuality given in a lecture that was 17 years ago. Following on from this has been a […]
A powerful and thought-provoking lecture from Sr Zara Faris on the topical question of why Islam prescribes the Hijab for Muslim women. Zara discusses and compares the Western context of women with the Islamic viewpoints, making key observations about the values that underpin the perception of women in […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 