Sunni Pledge of Mutual Respect and Cooperation

By sheila | Oct 9, 2007

Sunni Pledge of Mutual Respect and Cooperation In light of the Divine Word, we recognize that the historical nature of Sunni Islam is a broad one that proceeds from a shared respect for the Qur’an and Sunnah, a shared dependence on the interpretations and derivations of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), and a shared respect for the [...]

Saudi gift to Australian university

By sheila | Sep 16, 2007

Muslims attack $1m Saudi gift to Australian university UP to $1 million will be pumped by Saudi Arabia into an Australian university, sparking fears the money will skew its research and create sympathy for an extremist Muslim ideology espoused by al-Qai’da.

Muslim leaders and academics have attacked Queensland’s Griffith University for accepting an initial $100,000 grant from [...]

Islam is not a cereal

By sheila | Sep 4, 2007

Shaykh Nuh Keller Lecture on Modernism and Fiqh Al-Aqaliat (Jurisprudence for Minorities) I would like to share my notes on one specific group of topics the Shaykh spoke about namely the perils of Western Apologetic Islam, Modernists and Minority fiqh.

The topic was covered, chiefly in response to a question asked on 17 August during the Q&A [...]

Islam vs Science?

By sheila | Sep 3, 2007

Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry? Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam’s golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek medicine, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They improved and named algebra, [...]

Faith and Doubt

By sheila | Sep 2, 2007

Faith and Doubt Fellow Travelers Faith and doubt are twin brothers or sisters in the human condition. The Qur’an recognizes the capacity of the human being to believe or not to believe. Believing in the visible and the tangible is more widely acknowledged by most people when they are confined within their own mental estate. When [...]

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