July 2015. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, it’s supposed to be a time of celebration. People had gathered at the market in the Shia town of Khan Bani Saad. The Sunni daesh drove a truck into the crowd killing over 100 and injuring just as many. It’s difficult trying… Continue reading Jul 2015. Khan Bani Saad
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Jul 2015. 77 – Ten Years On
July 2015. And so it’s ten years since the awful events of 7/7. This young woman was only ten days away from her fifteenth birthday and she was on one of the London tubes during the attack. I think her honesty says it all. https://vk.com/video503532632_456239798
Jun 2015. Mothers Take Their Kids to Syria
June 2015. Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their nine children left the UK supposedly for a religious pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. They’re all now thought to be with deash in Syria. I don’t get it, the society in the UK don’t get it and that of course includes the Muslim community, the fathers sure… Continue reading Jun 2015. Mothers Take Their Kids to Syria
013. Understanding Islam Part 4
“That same complete Sovereignty of God over the People makes it difficult for Islamists to embrace Democracy because it’s based on the idea that the people Themselves are sovereign. The most radical Islamists, like Iman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaida, really do Hate Democracy. He called democracy a New Religion that Defiled the Masses, and the completely… Continue reading 013. Understanding Islam Part 4
013. Understanding Islam Part 3
“Now, today, in Europe and the United States, most citizens expect their states to be in at least some degree Democratic and Republican and Constitutional. So when people in the West look at the earliest Islamic Empire, we have a way of imagining Caliphs as Kings because like, you know, we had Kings. But caliphs… Continue reading 013. Understanding Islam Part 3
013. Understanding Islam Part 2
“Early on and for a long time, Arab ethnicity was privileged in the Islamic world, and this was especially true during the period of Conquest. This was despite Mohammed saying truly, the Arab has no superiority over the non Arab, nor the non Arab over the Arab, nor the black over the white, nor the… Continue reading 013. Understanding Islam Part 2
013. Understanding Islam Part 1
John Green is the New York Times bestselling author and he gives his thoughts on the Understanding of Islam. “Let’s begin with the headlines in 2014. ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIL and Islamic State and many other things, they declared a Caliphate in the territory that the group… Continue reading 013. Understanding Islam Part 1