There is another interesting discussion going on over at MuslimMatters centred on Sh. Salman al-Awdah’s article against Al-Qaeda on IslamToday. Its quite an interesting discussion with some useful comments from people who agree wholeheartedly with the Shaikh, and others who don’t necessarily have differing views, but raise some interesting questions about the nature of the [...]
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September 6, 2009
Ramsey the new Pires?
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Aaron Ramsey’s goal-scoring celebrations resemble that of a certain Frenchman who dazzled the Highbury crowd 5 years ago?
Robert Pires:
Aaron Ramsey:
August 25, 2009
Praying at the Emirates
Last season i went to the Emirates stadium a few times to watch Arsenal play. On a couple of those occasions, I knew that maghrib salaah would fall during the match. So i went a bit early and spoke to one of the stewards and asked him if he had a place where i could [...]
May 20, 2009
About chain letters
About ten years ago i read a hilarious rant by someone railing against email chains. I found it again today, and if you can stand some bad language and have a sense of humour, click here to read it (its the one at the top of the page, but the ones further down are equally [...]
May 15, 2009
Mosque Finder
I’ve been working on a project that had been in my mind for about a year before i got round to starting it.
Its a website that integrates the locations of masajid in the Western hemisphere (Australia included) with Google Maps. You can visit it by clicking on the following link:
http://www.mosque-finder.com
There are a couple of other [...]
April 2, 2009
Fan making too much noise
For a while now the fan on my computer had been making loud noises within 5 minutes of the computer being switched on. This made it really difficult working late at night as the loud hum emanating from the computer would disturb my kids sleeping in the next room.
I did a quick search on [...]
February 10, 2009
Shaking hands
I found an old article by Ed Husain on the City Circle site in which he says there is no real problem for men to shake hands with non-mahram women. He goes on to indicate that perhaps there might not even be a problem with exchanging a peck on the cheek, because, he argues, such [...]
January 26, 2009
Non-scholars for dollars
When i was at college i used to hear Ed Husain regularly insult Muslim scholars in the Middle East because of their ties to their governments, accusing them of not being impartial and towing the government line in their fatwas.
I think its a valid point, and you can’t deny that there could be a conflict [...]
January 7, 2009
Most religious leaders preach peace…
But don’t include the former chief rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu with them. In fact, he advocates the carpet bombing of men, women and children in Gaza:
“Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.”
Yes, [...]
October 19, 2008
Pacifying those who are already sleeping
I was sent this link to a post discussing the reaction of Muslims to yet another publication that slanders the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Unfortunately, its another one of those apologetic-type posts that belittles other Muslims for taking an orthodox stance on an important issue, and its very similar to this posting on [...]
