As for information, I am a writer living in the U.K. — My name is Ramsha Khan. Conservatives and Muslims in the West are having the most interesting conversations. When I saw a clip from the film Cuties, I was so repulsed that I could not continue watching past the first 30 seconds of it. The feelings of disgust completely[Read More…]
Last week, Tucker Carlson, a conservative, right wing pundit on Fox News, delivered a powerful speech on the desperate state of American society and the terrible direction it is headed in. Carlson’s speech deserves to be watched in full, but I wanted to highlight some things that are particularly relevant to Muslims and non-Muslims in America and around the world. Carlson[Read More…]
Socrates: Take a look round, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean: the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence. Plato, Theaetetus A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to[Read More…]
Jordan Peterson has been an invaluable addition to debates on modern controversies. Unfortunately, his views and claims about Islam and Islamic history have been far from nuanced and plays into the hands of anti-Muslim sentiments. Questioner: You put the Judaeo-Christian tradition on the one side and Islam on the other. Specifically, “the complex problem of Islam” as a “totalizing system”[Read More…]
It is human nature for individuals to reach different conclusions about what is true, and to be convinced that one’s beliefs, being true, deserve to prevail over false beliefs. The diversity of our opinions and our zeal in advancing them, wrote James Madison, has “divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to[Read More…]
Roger Scruton and Hamza Yusuf meet in the library of Zaytuna College to have a wide-ranging discussion on the true meaning of conservatism. Roger Scruton is philosopher of politics and aesthetics. He has authored more than fifty books on culture, philosophy, and religion, including A Dictionary of Political Thought and How to Be a Conservative. He received his Ph.D. in[Read More…]
“To move from Christianity to Islam, for an English man or woman, is not the giant leap an outsider might assume. It is simply the logical next step in the epic story of our people.” Sheikh Timothy Winter, British and Muslim “An Englishman can visit his pub on the regular, but may not find alcohol there; no matter, he believes in[Read More…]
The article on the so-called “Progressive Islam”, published on our website, raises the question of the attitude towards that ideology and it’s opponents. As for “Progressive Islam,” which denies the basic and consensual principles of Islamic theology, nothing to speak about — it is not Islam. Considering the fact that a significant number of white European Muslims are converts, for[Read More…]
If you were born and raised in the West, think back to your textbooks on world history. Chances are, you remember learning about historical periods like the Birth of Civilization (Mesopotamia), the Classical Age (Rome and Greece), Renaissance and Reformation, etc. If you heard mention of Islam or major events in the Islamic world, it probably constituted a single chapter[Read More…]
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