The Niqab Debate: Banning Freedom Author: Dr Tabasum Hussain, MDI, Canada. Recently, the Dutch government announced a ban on the face veil to take effect in 2013. In September 2010, the French Senate succeeded in implementing a ban against the niqab and burqa by passing an act “prohibiting […]
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 […]
Though we do not recommend the book reviewed here, this review by an Arabist from SOAS gives us an interesting insight into how historians can spin yarns about Islamic history which fit very comfortably into their Western orientalist mindset. In today’s London Evening Standard: In the Shadow of the Sword: the battle for global empire and the […]
by Sadat bin Anwar The Toronto Sun, a sensationalist tabloid-style Islamophobic newspaper, is at it again. This time it has taken the trouble to report the (non)story of Islamic ads at subway train stations in the Toronto area. The ads in question state “There is no god but […]
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