Posted on August 23, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Last year, I posted this on the topic of telling college educated/middle class individuals about Islam. A few days ago, Amir posted this similar post on Austrolabe. What goes on in Australia is eerily (and sadly) similar to what often happens here in the US in spite of them being ‘down under’.
What is the common [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
This is from an article on the contemporary fear of science in the Muslim world in Nature Magazine based on a lecture by Ziauddin Sardar
On Islam and science two things can be stated with some certainty. One, science thrived during the classical period of Islam; two, science in Muslim society has suffered a drastic decline. [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Update 2: This post by Abu Eesa sums up much of what I feel (hat tip to Austrolabe)
The mind would boggle except that we know that there are Muslims in our communities who have become absolutely oblivious to common sense, religious guidance, and divine warning. What else can we possibly do with them? These brothers [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Dr. Mahmoud has another good read on the problems of sloganized answers
The difficulty is this: to find or develop and workable “Islamic solution”, one must abandon historical and pietist utopianism. Islamic history, from its earliest days, has never painted a rosy picture. Islamic societies prospered when they were open to learning from others: Sassanid, Byzantine, [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
…about being American than their immigrant counterparts
A recent survey found that, compared to many countries in Western Europe, immigrant Muslims assimilate relatively well. In fact, the study found that African American Muslims more unhappy with America and, along with younger Muslims, were more likely to have extremist views. Is it because, minus the post-9-11 racial [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Tony Blair - with only a few weeks left in office - said that there are some problems with black (UK) culture. This could just have easily been said about American blacks (who use guns instead of knives) who have a lot of internal problems that we need to fix. Pretending that they don’t exist [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Hassan Butt says below that we need to have an open dialogue and counter this wacky and blood thirsty ideology. However, Mr. Butt - although he is still Muslim - still seems to blame Islam itself for the nuttery he learned in the cult he was involved with. That is another one of the danger of these crazy [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
This series of posts on the 1990’s salafi movement is probably the most talked about series of all time from a Muslim Blog. Many were forwarded the links from several lists several times over from different cities.
I don’t think the movement mentality and burnout from it is limited to salafis, so I am going to [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Can someone tell me when the “Islamic ideal” became groupthink? Since when does having personal goals and concerns go against “Islamic Ideals”? Why must we - according to these people - squeeze all human elements out of ourselves to be “perfect Muslims”? Why must we strive to turn ourselves into inhuman drones that spout a bunch of meaningless [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Peaceful Muslimah asks: If Islam is for All Times and Places, Then Why Must We All Become 7th Century Arabs?
Note: For those offended at the question, just take it at face value. If you disagree or are offended, then you are saying that Islam is limited to time and place and there is no room for [...]
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