Daniel Pipes, a new kind of Israel-basher
Bradley Burston of Haaretz’s Spin Cycle has some serious questions for “Harvard-pedigree” Daniel Pipes.
“This is not the first time Dr. Pipes has let Israelis have it for letting him down. In a 2003 speech to college students, cited on his Website www.DanielPipes.org, he suggested that Arabs will not truly accept Israel’s existence until Israel “punishes [...]
Blown away by Mohammad al-Hosayn
I don’t understand a word of the song, Mawlay, but this moving rendition by Mohammad al-Hosayn stirred something in my heart.
The music video can be viewed here.
Misquoting Muhammad Asad- addendum to previous post
In writing the previous entry, “Pummeling history into dust“, I had in my mind some idea on how I wanted to end it. Vaguely, I recalled a passage in Muhammad Asad’s splendid “The Road to Mecca“, in which he had talked about the “spirit” of Medina and surmised that it was all because of the [...]
Pummeling history into dust
“Muslims are many in number but few in reality, and the groups that claim to be Muslim are many, approaching 73 sects and numbering more than 1 billion.” [1]
Hardliners often confuse me with being a Muslim, or even a Shia sympathizer, whenever I bring up the issue of the demolition of historical sites in Mecca [...]
My brother Zac
Britain’s The Guardian features some tantalizing excerpts of a book on Zacarias Moussaoui, who is the only person to be charged in the US in connection with the September 11 attacks.
Zacarias Moussaoui: The Making Of A Terrorist, is authored by Zacarias’s brother, Abd Samad Moussaoui.
He went to the Friday sermon in the Narbonne mosque. [...]
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