“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
Tag: Political Islam
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
011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 5
Sandra Soloman is asked, “This might be a good time to mention, by the way, that one of the things that’s widely misunderstood is that it allows Slaughter. I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, that the person who does the slaughtering cut the throat of the animal, usually when it’s suspended from the rear… Continue reading 011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 5
011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 4
“And therefore, I am asking everyone to take this down and boycott Halal Food, aside of that, I’m calling on Human Rights and the animal rights organizations to look into this matter. Because as a ex-Muslim, when I used to see the animals, how they slaughtered them and kill them broadly with No Mercy and… Continue reading 011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 4
011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 3
“It says today it’s Halal for you to eat from the People of the Book they eat, who is the people of the book? The Jews and the Christians! So if any Muslim walking by, or driving around, and there’s no Halal Restaurants there, he can go in, any place, any where, and he can… Continue reading 011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 3
011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 2
“Even Muhammad he eat from their food after a battle, and the verse that comes after that, after what they’d been Forbidden on them, it says, today the food from the People from the Book, it’s Halal for the Muslims to eat and the food that the muslim also eat is Halal for us to… Continue reading 011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 2
011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 1
Sandra Solomon previously has stated about her life, “I was born into a Palestinian family in the West Bank of Ramallah and later my family and I relocated to Jordan and thereafter Saudi Arabia at age 9 where I began my education. I did enjoy reading the Quran, yet not fully understanding the meaning of… Continue reading 011. Sandra Soloman on Halal Food Part 1
My Daughter’s Near Escape
I met up with my daughter this afternoon for a coffee and a catch up, we meet up perhaps every second week. She’s in her early twenties and lives and works in a UK city. She told me that on the previous Friday she finished work at 7pm and went straight to the railway station.… Continue reading My Daughter’s Near Escape