Muslims against terrorism
Here is an interesting selection of banners that I picked up from Spiritual Tendencies. The creator of these masterpieces has very kindly allowed me to reproduce them here.
If you want to use them on your own websites, kindly drop Abdul Khafid a note.
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The Prophet’s family makes a stand
Daniel Pipes once posted a series of questions on his website, on the pretext that Muslims who got too many wrong answers were, in all likelihood, extremists. However crude the challenge was, one question seemed reasonable to ask. "Are Sufis and Shi’ites fully legitimate Muslims?" You will be surprised at the range of responses this [...]
My first time in a mosque
I visited Singapore two years ago, and was impressed by the strong Muslim presence there. They are ethnic Malays, whose ancestors had been introduced to Islam by Sufis. A majority of them adhere to Imam Shafi’i’s School of Jurisprudence, but also follow a set of customs that is known as adat. While the Malays make [...]
Three flavors of Salafism
Neo-Salafism has no coherent fiqh of its own- it bypasses the orthodox madhhabs (Schools of Thought)- and has only the most basic and anthropomorphic theology. Like Protestantism, it is fluid and tends to produce divisions and sub-divisions. According to
Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Abikan, one of the reasons for this is the habit of Salafist teachers [...]
Why Bali?
Once again, the resort island of Bali is hit. Three suicide bombers, taking with them the lives of 36 people. Police are hunting Noordin Mohamed Top, a Malaysian Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operative and elsewhere, Vice President Yusuf Kalla urges Muslim leaders to condemn terrorism that is worked on Indonesian soil. He says:
“Suicide bombings in Afghanistan [...]
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