The Good Caliphate is the ONLY Solution to ISIS

Last updated on: April 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Tammara Soma Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you must have heard of the brutality of Daesh’s (ISIS) self-proclaimed “Caliphate.” The apocalyptic attacks in an airport and a busy subway station in Brussels, Belgium, remind us all that this terrorist group will stop at nothing to obtain their objectives in building a so-called “Islamic Caliphate.” This group has not only busied themselves with razing ancient churches and monasteries, kidnapping women, and killing non-Muslims, they have also waged war... Read more

In Wake of Asad Shah’s Murder, Ten Fabrications Being Perpetuated about Ahmadi Muslims

Last updated on: April 9, 2016 at 3:09 pm By Dilshad Ali

By Qasim Rashid It is no secret I’ve been critical of Muslim leadership for their deafening apathy and silence over the 125-year worldwide persecution of Ahmadi Muslims. To add insult to injury, every time a new atrocity emerges I’m bombarded with standard anti-Ahmadi talking points in a shameless attempt to justify the violence. Just before Good Friday in the U.K., Asad Shah, who was a popular shopkeeper living in Glasgow, was stabbed and killed. At first, most suspected it was racially... Read more

Was Muhammad a Man of Peace? A Detailed Response to Nabeel Qureshi

Last updated on: April 6, 2016 at 9:20 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Tahir Nasser With greater scrutiny on Islamic teachings in the wake of terrorism committed by Muslims, a raft of pundits, not least of the Christian evangelical strain, like Nabeel Qureshi, have emerged. In his latest piece in the Huffington Post, his misrepresentation of Islam follows two steps: Firstly, he argues that when studying Islam, preference should be given to oral traditions, first written down more than two centuries after the death of the Prophet of Islam, rather than the... Read more

What Happens After We Die? An Islamic Prespective

Last updated on: April 5, 2016 at 12:21 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Mehdia Tariq The story of God has always intrigued people from all different faiths, times, and places. It has been a question that nearly everyone has pondered over and a journey that all take at some point in their life. Morgan Freeman takes us on this journey in the new National Geographic documentary, The Story of God. The first episode tackles the question— what happens after we die? In the episode Freeman discusses the beliefs of the life after... Read more

Do Questionable Orthodox Beliefs Bear Some Responsibility for Extremism?

Last updated on: March 30, 2016 at 9:20 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Amer Aziz So far in 2016, terrorism continues to be perpetrated in Pakistan, the Middle East and the West. Death tolls have mounted in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Ankara and now in Brussels and Lahore. The attacks come as a grim reminder that while such acts are perpetrated by a handful of extremists, they have grave repercussions for the rest of us. Defeating terrorism is, ultimately, a battle of hearts and minds. And, that likely requires us to ask... Read more

Lets Unite Behind True Islam Campaign

Last updated on: March 28, 2016 at 8:43 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Saima Sheikh Last weekend Turkey was rocked by terror attacks and then on Tuesday, Belgium was attacked by a terrorist group, ISIS. My heart bleeds for the victims of these terror attacks. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. As soon as I heard the news of the Belgium attacks, I knew that the Muslim bashing would start and soon enough Twitter was filled with hatred for Muslims and Islam. #StopIslam was trending in... Read more

So-called Muslim Terrorists Don’t Understand the Quran

Last updated on: March 27, 2016 at 5:25 pm By Dilshad Ali

By Qasim Rashid This week’s Brussels and Lahore attacks—like those in Ankara over the weekend, Parisin November and Kenya last April—are a scourge on humanity. They also represent the greatest possible misrepresentation of true Islam. ISIS extremists and anti-Islam activists fundamentally ignore and misrepresent the Qur’an. It should come as no surprise that after suffering beatings for nearly a year as a ISIS hostage, freed French journalist Didier Francois reported: There was never really discussion about texts or — it was... Read more

A Year After Murder of Three Muslims; The Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Has Gotten Louder

Last updated on: March 4, 2016 at 12:30 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Seidu Malik A year ago, in my own neighborhood of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, three Muslims students lost their lives to a hate crime. I feel the pain and anguish of anyone who has lost a dear one to murder, however the circumstances under which my fellow community members lost their lives have been amplified several fold within the last couple of months; we ought to deliberate and separate fact from fiction to prevent future occurrences. I am the first... Read more

Violence Against Women is Contradictory to Islamic Teachings

Last updated on: February 26, 2016 at 2:11 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Hina Latif “Muslim men are allowed to rape non-Muslim women to ‘humiliate’ them.” Professor Saud Saleh, from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt made this demoralizing statement during an interview on Al-Hayat TV while stating that rape is allowed, in Islam, and “legitimate” during a war. The history of rape within war zones is one of the most heinous war crimes used as a source weapon. While referencing the devastating crisis of the Yazidi people trapped in war... Read more

Can Islamic Economic Theory Prevent the Looming Global Recession?

Last updated on: February 20, 2016 at 11:42 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Syed Muhammad Saleh Nasser & Syed Muhammad Tahir Nasser Economic inequality is bad news for both rich and poor, as economists are slowly realising. House of Debt, acclaimed by the Financial Times as the “most important economics book” of 2015, by Princeton’s Professors of Economics, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, demonstrated this well. They showed that the main cause of the 2008 U.S-led global recession was that indebted households pulled back on spending more during an economic downturn than the less indebted, driving... Read more