A member on our facebook page made the following comment in response to our article on “Church bombings have no place in Islam”, writing: Dawn Newhouse Then why are Muslims the only ones who do this? They are the only ones who bomb mosques too. Come to think of […]
Modern day terrorism carried out by Muslims belonging to organizations like Al-Qaeda, or Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, has a context behind them. These groups often list their grievances or the causes behind their attacks, often pointing to western foreign policy issues, such as the invasions and interference in the […]
On the 22nd of September 2013, two-suicide bombers detonated their explosives belt at a church in Pakistan, killing over 75 Christians who were attending Sunday mass. Obviously as Muslims we should be outraged at such an atrocity, after all when right wing minded extremists attack mosques in the […]
http://lostislamichistory.com/columbus-was-not-the-first-to-cross-the-atlantic/ The old poem that most American school children recognize begins “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” Indeed, in the year 1492, Christopher Columbus (whose real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo) sailed across the Atlantic in the name of the Spanish crown and landed in the […]
Last year (24th May 2012), MDI’s Abdullah al Andalusi debated Tommy Robinson (leader of the English Defence League) on a TV Channel ‘Vox Africa TV’ on the subject “Is Islam synonymous with Terrorism?” – Considering the situation in the UK at the moment, after the attack on a […]
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