What Does It Mean to be a Muslim in a Secular Country?
Mohammad Gill Jan 10, 2005 interacts: 114The younger generation that is born and bred in the western secular countries is exposed to much broader influences ...
A Case for Banning Polygamy
Ayesha I Khan Dec 3, 2003 interacts: 239The practice of polygamy preceded Islam, and Quranic injunctions sought to first limit and eventually dispense entirely with the regressive custom.
Muslims ‘Unveiled’
Asif Naqshbandi Oct 16, 2006 interacts: 279Muslims should be willing to adapt to the host culture as much as possible
God in Vedas and Upanishads
Sushil Bhatnagar Jun 1, 2006 interacts: 201Indian philosophical thought can be generally divided in two divergent currents. One having its source in the Vedas and the other independent of it.
ISNA Thugs
Umbreen Shah Sep 8, 2005 interacts: 276ISNA management has been unable to relate to their American-born Muslim constituency which is the future of Islam in America.
Ancient Assyrians Alive!
Bhaskar Dasgupta Jul 29, 2007 interacts: 4Egypt is their promised land, and between Egypt and Israel, the Assyrians will be the lord and masters.
An Evolving Conversation
Saad Shafqat Feb 5, 1999 interacts: 25A One-Act Play on the topic of biological evolution
Should We Still have a Lunar Calendar?
Wasiq Bokhari Sep 25, 1997 interacts: 4A thousand years ago, with primitive scientific tools at our disposal, periodicity in the lunar or solar phenomena was state of the art. Today, using
When did Freethought Cease in the Muslim World?
Mohammad Gill Jul 15, 2004 interacts: 159The period in which rationalism was tangled with orthodox thought lasted for about four to five hundred years. In spite of the stresses and strains,
Facts O-level and facts low level
Omar R Quraishi Jul 20, 2000 interacts: 62the matric textbook reads like a badly done PR job by a government spokesman
Is Science a Religion?
Richard Dawkins Oct 29, 1998 interacts: 42A case can be made that faith is one of the world’s great evils.
Nature and Natural Disasters
Salman Hameed Oct 2, 2006 interacts: 11Today, astronomers can predict eclipses with high precision for thousands of years. One day we will be able to do the same for earthquakes. Such
The Defence College Experience
Nazar Khan Jul 9, 2003 interacts: 112We also touched, perhaps superficially, on other national issues ranging from ‘economy’ to ‘national planning’ and had begun to have a false feeling of ‘knowing
Kibbutz Criminals
Farzana Versey Mar 22, 2006 interacts: 489Can we ever imagine a Jewish Mob? Can we see any identity for them beyond the rabbi, the kibbutz, the Holocaust? Can we even think
The Curse of Mullah
Atif Mian Aug 5, 2003 interacts: 88The bill declared the wearing of shirts and trousers as “Un-Islamic” (and hence un-constitutional), and called for a strict ban on shirts and trousers in
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