Higher Criticism

Mufti says condemning Jews is heresy

sheila — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:23:24 +0000

Haaretz: Syria’s Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism Syria’s foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio. “If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic,” Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was [...]

Gaza- of all places- giving aid to Haiti

sheila — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:44:32 +0000

Haaretz: Gaza collects Haiti aid, says it was similarly shaken by Israel Palestinians in Gaza are offering donations and financial support for the victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake at the Strip’s Red Cross headquarters, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Monday. The Ma’an reported said that Gazan family members of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel also participated [...]

Muslims destroying Prophet Ezekiel’s tomb

sheila — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:10:20 +0000

JPost: Iraq erasing Jewish identity of Prophet Ezekiel from tomb For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims came to Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad, to visit the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel and pray. The distinctive Jewish character of the Al-Kifl shrine, namely the Hebrew inscriptions and the Torah Ark, never bothered the gentile worshipers. In [...]

Taking lessons from Malaysian extremists

sheila — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:43:07 +0000

BosNewsLife: Islamists Burn, Loot Algerian Church Islamists burned and looted a Protestant church in northern Algeria in an attack that was fueled by violence against Christians elsewhere in the Muslim and Arab world, church officials said Monday, January 11. The Pentecostal oriented Tafat Church, which is located in an apartment block in the city of Tizi Ouzou [...]

Tariq Ramadan defends his views

sheila — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:07:40 +0000

LA Times: Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan defends his views Liberal Muslim or closet fundamentalist? Peaceful intellectual or militant in sheep’s clothing? Tariq Ramadan has been called all these things — and more — by his friends and foes. Whatever the truth, the Swiss-born Oxford University professor ranks among the most influential thinkers in the Muslim world. The grandson [...]

Muslims take over synagogue to pray

sheila — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:37:01 +0000

Haaretz: Virginia synagogue doubles as mosque for Ramadan On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew. The building is a synagogue on a tree-lined street in [...]

Civilian deaths in Gaza under-reported

sheila — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:57:26 +0000

JPost: Civilian deaths in Gaza op were higher More than half of the 1,382 Palestinians who were killed by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead did not take part in hostilities, the human rights organization B’Tselem said in a special report being published Wednesday morning regarding Palestinian fatality figures during the fighting. Palestinians search through… Palestinians search through [...]

Al-Qaradhawi opens ‘Center for Middle Path in Islam’

sheila — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:13:18 +0000

Memri: Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Inaugurates ‘Center for Middle Path in Islam’ International Union of Muslim Scholars head Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi today inaugurated the Al-Qaradhawi Center for the Middle Path in Islam and for Innovation. At the inauguration ceremony, Al-Qaradhawi explained that the center’s aim was to reinforce the idea of the middle path, which expresses religious moderation Related Posts Shaykh [...]

Forget the Muslims in China

sheila — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:41:21 +0000

Riots in China are not uncommon. For decades, corrupt government officials have abused their power in seizing rural land for the ostensible reason of industrialization and economic progress. Farmers and their families, frustrated by the lack of accountability in the land acquisition process, have consistently banded together and rioted. Much of this go unreported. But the [...]

The unfathomable enigma of Sultan Malik

sheila — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:10:01 +0000

From the thirteenth century, intrepid Chinese voyagers had an almost complete map of Southeast Asia. Invariably, the names they gave to places were direct transliterations. Thus, Singapore, which was once known as Pulau Ujong, was called Puluozhong. The long, jungle-covered island of Sumatra, which was once known as Samudra, became Su-mu-ta. Islam had arrived to the [...]