The UK election is over, and now begins a 5 year term by the Conservative Party who have formed a bare majority within the UK Parliament’s lower house (The House of Commons). What lessons did we learn from the election,… Read More ›
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Should Muslims Vote in Secular Liberal Democracies?
The upcoming UK general elections are only a day away, and the usual calls to participate in the election ring out across the Muslim community, like some sort of Adhaan, creating a temporary amnesia about all the previous elections that… Read More ›
The Reality of Secular Liberal Democracy, and the Islamic worldview (part 2)
The age which produced the birth of a new worldview in European thought, called anachronistically, ‘The Enlightenment’,that would see the new and radical world view called today ‘Secular Liberalism’, or ‘Liberalism’.
In order to understand the reality and meaning behind the modern use of Democracy, we must understand what gave rise to its resurrection, the significances behind this, and the purpose of it relative to the ideology of Secular Liberalism.
A Response to the Quilliam Foundation’s recent post ‘The Liberal Dilemma: Islamists on Campuses’
I was drawn attention to a recent blog post on the Quilliam website by the author Jacob Kishere, which discussed the ‘problem’ of ‘Islamist’ speakers being invited to university campuses. The article lamented at this ‘ideological ‘entryism’ of non-Liberal ideologies… Read More ›
What if the Muslim world treated non-Muslims as the West treats Muslims?
Sometimes, the best way for people to understand whether they are treating their minorities fairly, is to ask, ‘what if they were the minority?’, would they accept the same treatment they dish out to others? On the eve of extreme… Read More ›
Why can’t Muslims live under Sharia in our own lands?
Always we hear the same tired arguments against Muslims having the right to live according to Islam. In Muslim countries, Muslims are told that we cannot implement and live by Sharia rights, laws and duties because there are [insert name… Read More ›
Liberal Colonialism: The Making of Western Civilisation and the Clash with Islam
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied:… Read More ›
How to Revive the Muslim Ummah (Part 1): Why Muslims Differ in their methods to revive the Muslim Ummah
The Muslim Ummah is diverse and broad, encompassing Muslims of many different specialisations, focuses and preferences. The Muslim Ummah consists of Muslims who chose many vocations in life, hobbies, tastes, preferences, and specialisations. Some Muslims seek the path of Jihad,… Read More ›
The Irrationality of Western Ideology & the Blind Faith of ‘Muslim’ Modernists
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 ›
Has the Caliphate been re-established by ISIS?
[Short answer: No…] Yesterday, the group that has swept to mass media attention in the last month, ISIS, claimed that the Caliphate has been restored in its ‘domains’, and called for Muslims to render their pledge of allegiance (bay’ah) to… Read More ›
