By ABU YAHYA, Canada
CLOSE to 2,000, people have died in Pakistan’s biggest natural disaster since 1929. Millions have lost their homes and run the risk of being infected by deadly water-borne diseases such as cholera. The government’s slow response has been criminally inadequate whereas the magnitude of the devastation was made worse by its failure [...]
![“Ka’anahu Waliyun Hameem” – As If He is Your Bosom Friend [Ref: Verse # 41: 34]](http://themuslim.ca/wp-content/uploads/cat19_NpAdvInnerSmall.jpg )
By SHAMIM SIDDIQI
[To turn an individual into your bosom friendship or a society, a people becoming friendly and loving to you [O Muslims!] in all respects is something quite unique to attain in the community of nations.
This is what this Verse connotes and commands Muslims to do it both at individual and collective levels through [...]
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 [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA
GEN MUSHARRAF enjoyed nine-year rule but Pakistan suffered. He was given a royal send off and is still enjoying life abroad but Pakistan continues to bleed because of his unpardonable sins. Had he put some steel in his back and warded off the telephonic pressure from Collin Powel, he could have [...]
By STEPHEN SALISBURY
THERE is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The angry "debate" over whether the building should exist has a kind of glitch-in-the-Matrix feel to it, leaving in its wake an aura of something-very-bad-about-to-happen.
It's not just that opposition [...]
By IMAM DR. ZIJAD DELIC, CIC
We need action not only to end the fighting but to make the peace...
-- Lester B. Pearson (Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Laureate) in 1956
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EACH year on August 9, Canadians celebrate Peacekeepers’ Day. It was established to recognize the high level of commitment and courage shown by Canadians serving [...]
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 ASIF HAROON RAJA
INDIA being the sole terrorist state in the region has been playing upon the theme of terrorism since early 1990s but could not make any headway in getting Pakistan declared a terrorist state since USA was not directly affected by terrorism. 9/11 changed the whole scenario and terrorism became the buzzword [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
THE US is deeply concerned that Haqqani network based in North Waziristan (NW) is killing American soldiers in Afghanistan. It complains that the militants have safe havens in FATA which seriously jeopardizes US efforts to defeat militancy. The issue is not whether the militants take off from Pakistan’s [...]
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. [...]
