According to the Islamic calendar, neither of two EID’s of Muslims have arrived, so there isn’t a collective cause such as to explain why any of the 1.6 billion Muslims should be engaged in collective celebration. Perhaps those Muslims celebrating… Read More ›
NEWS COMMENTARY
A PRODUCTIVE AND KHAIR NEW YEAR, 1441 HIJRI FOR EVERYONE – and a good time for some questions about the origins of the Hijri calendar…
I’m wishing my brothers and sisters – a belated productive and Khair [Good]-filled New Year! 1441 Hijri. Yesterday was the beginning of the New Year, 1441! That’s right, 1441 years have passed since the Prophet Muhammed (SAAW) made his historic… Read More ›
Are Asians Overrepresented in Crimes in the UK? Is Islam the Cause? A response (with stats) to right-wing Islamophobes, Intolerant secularists (and closet Racists)
Constant reports on “Asian Grooming Gangs” by the media have been exploited by far-right, right-wing, and intolerant left-wing factions, to stir up anti-immigrant, or more specifically, anti-Muslim sentiment. For U.S. Americans reading this, the term “Asians” in the statistics published,… Read More ›
Tommy Robinson is no “Free Speech martyr”
Tommy Robinson has gone to jail for contempt of court after breaching a previous sentence. His supporters portraying as a “martyr for free speech” who’s “only crime” was “raising awareness about issues no one else wants to talk about”. However,… Read More ›
Dr Jordan Peterson’s interview with Cathy Newman, & one parallel with my interview with her on Charlie Hebdo
On the 16th January 2018, the well known and controversial Canadian clinical psychologist and professor, Jordan Peterson, appeared on an infamous interview with Cathy Newman on the UK’s Channel 4. Jordan Peterson rose to fame with his refusal to be… Read More ›
My Cambridge Union debate on “Is Islam a Threat to the West?” goes viral in Malaysia
Originally posted on The Muslim Debate Initiative:
Another Muslim Debate Initiative video has gone viral in Malaysia, attracting almost 2 million views in just four days! On Thursday 4th November 2010, the prestigious Cambridge University’s Cambridge Union Society (the oldest…
Secular Liberalism’s sex & alcohol problem
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 ›
India and the ‘Triple Talaq crisis’
Originally Posted on Facebook, 22nd April 2017 Currently in India, Modi, along with many Secular reformers, are demanding that Muslims end the ‘triple talaq’ system of divorce. The argument, so it goes, is that women feel insecure to be married… Read More ›
Why Muslim Governments Were Never Serious about Deposing Assad and Rescuing Aleppo or the Syrians
Recently, there was sad news of the fall of almost half of opposition held Aleppo, and the rising possibility of the return to subjugation of the Syrian people by a sectarian and tyrannical dictator. Additionally, the Syrian regime has allied… Read More ›
7 Shocking Facts about the 2016 US Election – and how Donald Trump could still LOSE it
As an addendum to my last article, I wanted to point people in the direction of some interesting events that occurred after the recent election results. 1) Hillary Clinton received more votes in her favour, than Donald Trump, but still… Read More ›