Who are the Taliban?
The Wahhabi Myth (TWM)- a website created two years after 9-11 to discredit links between Usama bin Laden and Salafism- states quite categorically that “…the Taliban are Deobandi Sufis.”
The Deobandi are Muslims of South Asia and Afghanistan who follow the fiqh (tradition of jurisprudence) of Imam Abu Hanifa. The name comes from Deoband, India, where [...]
The New Shirt
This is a work of fiction. I wrote this last year when I heard on the news that a Palestinian mother had lost her baby because she had come in between an exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli soldiers. Ten o’clock. The cigarette in my hand has burned to a butt. I don’t even [...]
Google can help in the war on terrorism
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) wants Google to hand over data about what people are looking for on the Internet. Ostensibly, it’s to shut down child-pornography rings, which is good and proper, but what must worry terrorists is the possibility that the DoJ is putting up a smokescreen; that what the Americans are really [...]
Rules of Learning
Here is sound advise from Abd al-Latif (1162-1231), a Muslim medical scholar of Baghdad.
I commend you not to learn your sciences from books unaided, even though you may trust your ability to understand. Resort to professors for each science you seek to acquire; and should your professor be limited in his knowledge take all that [...]
Pope Benedict on Islam
Hugh Hewitt did an interesting interview with Father Jospeh Fessio, Provosty of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, and student and friend of Benedict XVI. The most interesting part concerned a gathering at Castle Gandolfo with the Pope and his students in September 2005, where the subject was Islam. Read it here.
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