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So You Think Muslims Are Being Tried?

By Ekram Haque If you think Muslims are being tried, you have company. Millions of Muslims are thinking likewise. In fact, even non-Muslims are wondering about the downward spiral of the once-dominant Islamic civilization. No doubt we are in a prolonged period…

God Knows History

AS I WAS reading the history of the Dravidian religion of India that prevailed before the coming of the Aryans from the north, I was struck with horror by the “religious” beliefs and practices. There existed sects who worshiped the male sexual…

The Ansar and Us

THE NAME OF Anṣâr never fails to evoke undertones of sacrifice, submission, and love of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ and warm sentiments of appreciation in our hearts. There is much for us to learn from their lives. Is there something common…

Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange – Part 7 | Linda Thayer

We ended our previous Part 6 noting that if the Church had not accepted Paul as a valid spokesman for Jesus, then a “Christological” belief system—including the supposed divinity of Jesus, a divine son-ship relationship to God, a Trinitarian model of deity—could…

Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange – Part 6 | Linda Thayer

In previous parts of this series, we concluded that Paul’s ‘gospel’ differed dramatically from the Gospel message (Arabic: injîl) of Jesus as found in the several opening documents (Gospel books) of the New Testament of the Bible (i.e., Christian scripture). Accordingly, we…

Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange – 4 | Linda Thayer

WE HAVE BEEN looking at Dr. James D. G. Dunn’s study of the use of words in the Christian New Testament (NT) (compared with Hebrew/ Jewish usage in the Old Testament—since Jesus conformed to the model of a Jewish prophet), words meaning “worship”—as…

Are Western Muslims Culturally Tone Deaf?

Mosques arson, bombings and graffiti, citizen-packing of city council meetings to deny mosque building permits; “flying while Muslim” detentions; hate crimes and hate talk from pro-Evangelical Christian talk show hosts and guests; national, state and local political candidates who use an Islam-bashing…

Islam means peace, Islam is a religion of peace, Islam and peace, Lesson of Al-Hudaybiyyah

Peace and the Spread of Islam

by Dr Jaafar S Idris ON HIS WAY back to Madinah after the conclusion of the peace agreement of Al-Ḥudaybiyah with the unbelievers of Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ received revelation from Allah. It was Sûrat Al-Fatḥ which begins with the words: We have…

How Our Intentions and Actions Give Each Other Value

So they proceeded. And at last when they embarked in a ship, he scuttled it. [Moses] said: Have you scuttled it to drown its people? Very truly, you have done a grievous thing! He said [to Moses]: Did I not say that,…

Monotheism in Interfaith Exchange – Part 3 | Linda Thayer

As a means toward interfaith understanding of Islam’s vindication and re-establishment of true monotheism among the Heavenly Revelations, we are analyzing James D. G. Dunn’s arguments in his book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence. Dunn is a British New Testament…