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…]
Regarding this new definition of “refugees”, I might sound controversial, but seeing the big efforts being made by Islamic societies in pro-refugees campaigns, I wonder, how is it exactly an Islamic issue? How, exactly, promoting the migration of Muslims to non-Muslim western countries (mostly dreaming of welfare paradises) – especially with the huge rates of riddah or at least indulging[Read More…]
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 history of German-Muslim relations is long. The “Soldier King” Frederick William I had in 1732. Converted a riding stable to a mosque. Statistically, Islam has been a part of Germany for long time. Muslims have been living in Germany for centuries, currently there are nearly five million of Muslims living in Germany. About fifty percent of them are German[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…]
In fact, there is no kind of modern criticism of the content of a hadith, there is no type of criticism that I have come across in the modern world of the content of hadith that does not have precedence amongst Muslims. Even Sunni scholars who nowadays are seen as the kind of arch proto-salafis like Shamsadeen ad Dhahabi or[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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