Yesterday I attended a live TV “debate” on the (in)famous “The Big Questions” on BBC 1 to discuss two topics, one related to whether there should be some controls on Gambling, and another, on whether some *communities* (i.e. religious communities)… Read More ›
Recently The Quran Institute [TQI] begun enrolment for a course studying an objective overview of Western Civilisation, its philosophy and influential thinkers. Many Muslims were quite interested in this course, and it is surely a pioneering project that not many… Read More ›
Recently, a UK Legal barrister, was reported in a recent news article [1], to have publicly advised people that it is safer to avoid having sex with anyone who has drunk ANY amount of alcohol, in order to avoid the… Read More ›
A shorter version of this article was published in Middle East Eye On 12th June 2016, in Orlando, Florida, Omar Mateen walked into a nightclub called ‘the Pulse’ at 2am and began shooting those inside leading to 49 fatalities and… Read More ›
Introduction: Why is it important to understand and define ‘The West’? The term ‘The West’, ‘The Western world’ and ‘Western culture’ are used quite widely by ‘Western’ politicians, media and academics to refer to the very specific phenomena of ‘Western… Read More ›
On 20th July 2015, I discussed with MP Jeffrey Donaldson about David Cameron’s speech, highlighting the attempt by the UK government to bring in a raft of draconian laws. I refuted the dangerous logic espoused by David Cameron, although belief… Read More ›
Everyone has been aware of the recent controversy caused when a right-wing newspaper yesterday published an exposé of some of the private antics of Maajid Nawaz. I view the tabloid media and their gutter policies of personal attacks with utter distaste,… Read More ›
A few hours ago, I heard the sad news of three people dead in the aftermath of almost 16-hour hostage siege at a Lindt Chocolate store in Sydney Australia where the alleged assailant, Man Haron Monis, took 17 civilians hostage in the… Read More ›
The most important thing for a person who seeks truth is to remain objective and be skeptical of so-called ‘given truths’ – especially ideas that are in fashion in his/her day and age. In every age and time, there were… Read More ›
Ancient Egypt believed its religion, philosophy, beliefs about humans and culture were the universal standard and measure of truth. Now it is just an past civilisation that no longer exists, nor whose intellectual worldview has any influence (except of course,… Read More ›
Abdullah al Andalusi 