By Yousef Drummond
There is the old adage that “a few rotten apples spoil the whole bunch”. I think this adage explicitly relates to the political hysteria enveloping the cable-news networks as well as local and national newspapers here in the United States that is now whipping up fears among non-Muslims that “each and every Muslim [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know…This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason. ”[1]
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees (1670)
“Of a surety there is a morsel of flesh in the body, if it is sound, the whole body will be sound, but if it is corrupt, [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“Whosever obeys the Messenger, has indeed obeyed Allaah” (Surah An-Nisa 4:80)[1]
“Hence the doctrines which he [Jesus] really delivered were defective as a whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us mutilated, misstated, and often unintelligible”[2].
Francis Bacon, David Hume, Isaac Newton, John Locke, John Toland, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson. [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY
EVER since a group of ordinary people from more than 40 different countries came together and set sail for Gaza have we seen various world leaders scramble to persuade Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza. Why? To honour the memory of those martyred by Israeli soldiers who shot nine unarmed peace activists [...]
JAWED ANWAR
TODAY, Canada is celebrating its 143rd birth day. Canada is the second largest in the area and one of the most beautiful countries on this planet. It comprises 10 million square kilometre land and bearing only 34 million populations. Canada is one of the world’s wealthiest nations with a high per-capita income $38,025. Its [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY
AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties.
Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies.
And so the fear and intimidation spread like a great [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“Our own soul, created wise and thoughtful in the image of God, having refused to know God, has become bestial, senseless and almost insane through delighting in material things”
- Saint Gregory of Sinai[1]
“People sleep, and when they die they wake”[2]
- Prophet Muhammad (salla-lahu-alaihi-wa-salam)
There are, to date, thousands of empirical studies in the moral [...]
By LINDA "iLham" BARTO
MY daughter Tana, who is adopted, was taken, at age two, from her birth mother due to abuse and neglect. She was put into foster care, and we adopted her at age five. After twenty-two years, her birth mother found her after having enlisted the help of a private investigator nine years [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY
Hold the front page!
The docile White House Press Corp has got steamed up about something and finally taken a scalp as a result.
It seems the Capitol Hill cocktail set who usually sit and preen themselves like pampered Pomeranians while asking pre-screened, pre-approved, Obama-friendly questions have forced a resignation.
So what provoked them and [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY
THE full extent of the atrocities carried out by Israeli on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla are beginning to emerge as the survivors return home with their powerful eye witness accounts.
Now would be the time, you might think, for some humility or even an apology from the Zionist State, but not content [...]
