Salvation is just a family affair
David Myatt is certainly no stranger to ideologies, having been active in the neo-Nazi camp and also founding the hardline British National Socialist Movement (BNS). In 1998, all that changed when he walked into a British mosque and announced his conversion to Islam.
David Myatt’s discovery of Islam is vividly portrayed in an
Internet article he [...]
When blindness kills
The latest bombings in Egypt effectively nail the coffin shut on the lie that terrorism is the West’s problem. In fact, because of the increased security in the United States and Europe, major terrorist strikes have unsurprisingly moved into predominantly Muslim capitals. From the bombings of the Hazrat Shahjalal shrine in Bangladesh, to the demolition [...]
Jerusalem: Where armies and souls contend
Steven Erlanger (The New York Times) ruminates on the troubled city of Jerusalem.
The struggles over the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif…are fundamental, with fanatics of both faiths wanting to expunge the other.
Yet this is one of my favorite places in Jerusalem – grassy, shaded by trees and deceptively calm.
While I sit on a stone wall and look [...]
Can interfaith relations stop extremism?
A CBS poll claims to prove, within a reasonable margin of error, that people’s perception of Islam is going down the drain. Margin or no margin, one does not need a poll to know that.
In almost all interfaith gatherings, the agenda inevitably coalesces on the question of Islam’s image. I think it saps the agenda [...]
How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper
Fawaz Turki- erstwhile columnist of the Saudi-based Arab News- on the finer points of how to blow your career in the Middle East.
What mattered was that I had committed one of the three cardinal sins an Arab journalist must avoid when working for the Arab press: I criticized the government. The other two? Bringing up Islam [...]
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