Mufti says condemning Jews is heresy
Haaretz: Syria’s Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism
Syria’s foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio.
“If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic,” Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was [...]
The political careers of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs- a short overview
Like Jesus, Muhammad’s personality and message of divine unity attracted a host of extraordinary individuals who came to be known as Sahaba, or Companions. These were the first witnesses of the Last Prophethood, the first students of the great master, who spoke not by his own tongue, but by direct inspiration from God.
Although ten Companions [...]
Shia Islam and its hierarchy of scholars
The establishment of the four schools of law meant that Sunni Islam reached its stable form at a relatively early stage of Islamic history. In contrast, Shia Islam’s framework of law is in a continual process of development. Past Shia empires like the Fatamids and present nation-states like Iran have proven to be fertile ground [...]
Innovation hotheads are like Ivan Petrovich Pavlov’s dogs
If the world of Islam is put into a snow globe, and an outsider peers in, he might be forgiven for thinking that those little people walking about on the streets are Pavlov’s dogs. Every time the outsider whispers the word bida, the people inside would go insane and start beating one another with shoes, [...]
Shaykh Al-Qaradhawi and Shoah
MEMRI: Leading Sunni Islamist Al-Qaradhawi Denounced by European Muslims After MEMRI Exposes Him Celebrating The Holocaust On Al-Jazeera TV
According to media sources, including the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, on February 16, 2009 the Islamic Council of Norway denounced as “unacceptable” recent statements made by prominent Sunni Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi on Al-Jazeera TV, that the Holocaust was [...]
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