How to Read the Qur’an: A Guide for English Speaking Readers The Muslim Debate Initiative is pleased to announce that Ashmath, a recent revert to Islam, is joining us as a researcher and writer. His characteristically intelligent and insightful articles have already caught the attention of readers. Please visit his excellent blog for more literary gems! Here is his first piece as an MDI writer. Enjoy… This page [...]
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As a further testimony to the unity of the One who has created all of mankind, note the striking similarity in the Bhagavad-Gita written in India a thousand years earlier: You are the One Creator of all the worlds, and of that which moves and that which does not move, You alone are fit for [...]
A characteristically intelligent and insightful article by Ashmath, a new Muslim I’ve been thinking lately about the controversy over the burning of the Qur’an, the cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and Muslim anger. What’s really stood out to me as I’ve been considering these things is the fact that so many in the West seem genuinely baffled [...]
An exciting and highly topical debate featuring two significant Muslim thinkers. Another intellectual and community initiative from the Muslim Debate Initiative… Our Belief MDI takes as it sole adopted beliefs, the Islamic creed (Aqeedah), that it holds there to be no God except the one God, and Muhammed (pbuh) as His final Prophet and Messenger. [...]
Democracy Paradox: Institutional Versus Popular Legitimacy February 26, 2012 Moez Mobeen Although democracy claims sovereignty of the masses, in reality, democratic institutions are built on the idea of “representative sovereignty”, so the sovereignty of the masses actually translates into or is taken to mean “the sovereignty of legislative assemblies”. In “Representative Sovereignty”, the representatives of [...]
The Unite Against Fascism 2012 conference on 25 February (at Conway Hall in London) was a chance for antifascists and antiracists to plan their campaign for the coming year. Antifascists have staged successful mobilisations against the English Defence League around the country and this year also saw a successful campaign to boot the fascist British National Party [...]
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