An Interview with Idris Mears
British Muslim Idris Mears about his conversion in Islam, his life and his books.
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Interview with Haroun Sidorov, CEO of I4E (part 1)
An interview of Haroun Sidorov, CEO of I4E to Ali Shahin As-salamu aleikum, Harun. As the CEO of the project “Islam for Europeans”, please tell about yourself and about how you relate to this problem? Wa aleykumu as salam. I converted to Islam in 2003 and this was preceded by about 2 years of meetings and discussions with the person[Read More…]
PRIORITIES, people!
Random hypothetical scenario: 1. President X of not-existent Eastern European country Bieloslavatia (or the Caribbean Puerto Tobagahamas) declares that himself and his whole nation are ready to accept Islam, but he will not accept foreigners (Muslims or not, economic immigrants or refugees) from too much different cultures – not on the basis of a delusion of not-existent “ethnic purity” nor[Read More…]
Tatar community in Finland: a case for European Muslims
The Tatars provide a good example of successful integration: they have adapted well to Finnish society as hard-working citizens, while managing to maintain a close community. The Tatar community has not asked for outside help but has, through its own resilience, acquired good-quality premises for itself and been able to maintain two graveyards. It has also set an example for[Read More…]
Western Muslim Conservatism
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…]
Muslim Rum – Shaykh Ahmad Ali Adani
There is no such thing that we are part of a generic nation of “Westerners”. No such people or tribe exists, let alone in Ontario or Perth. We must accept our ancestry which places us as descendants, quite likely, of ‘Īsū, and thus the immediate offspring of Ishāq, peace upon him. It is thus by no means a despicable ancestry,[Read More…]
Clans of Sapient Virtue – Shaykh Ahmad Ali Adani
Rather than a focus on feeding ideological clans, which met their extinction as quickly as they sprang into life, notable Muslims in the past took great care to nurture evergreen trees of excellence within their households. That was true of Morocco and Jakarta, or Syria and Khorasan in between. In this nimble writing, which is meant to be no more[Read More…]
The Inner Saracen
Islam and European knighthood, part 2 The Inner Saracen There is a quite popular plot in some scholastic treatises and different chivalric proses of XIV-XV centuries. Saladin, in that plot, becomes seriously curious about Christianity, even considering to convert to it (or initially with a different purpose), he travels to the West in a company of his former captive, Hugh[Read More…]
Can European Muslims ignore “American discourse”?
Some native European Muslims who, like us, do not support the view of Islam as a religion of only non-whites or immigrants, nevertheless believe that we make the mistake by adopting American “racial” discourse in Europe. They believe that in Europe the problem of anti-white racism under the banners of Islam can be solved through the adherence of European Muslims[Read More…]
Some mistakes of European Muslims: shaykh Ahmad Ali Adani
When one passes from the darkness of the kufr to the light of iman, an enormous shift takes place, across an abyss. This is accompanied, in most cases, and it is logical that this is so, by a strong discomfort towards the world of kufr and towards one’s personality prior to the acceptance of Islam. A serious mistake committed by[Read More…]
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