By Saima Sheikh “This is America; you don’t have to wear that thing on your head anymore.” “You force your wife to cover herself” shouted a protester at CAIR Dallas event in January. “Once they get that established, we’re all going to be wearing hijabs,” Christine Weick said. “Women, come on, do you want this oppression coming upon you?”These are just few examples of recent incidences in America where Non-Muslims have expressed their phobia at Muslim women for wearing a... Read more
Connect with Qasim on Facebook and Twitter. Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious anti-theist Richard Dawkins happily returned to spreading falsehood and hatred of Islam, tweeting, “Alas, criminal individual killers exist. But there’s only 1 ideology now that preaches the legal killing of dissenters. And it isn’t atheism[.]” In insinuating Islam “preaches the legal killing of dissenters,” Dawkins effectively states that the “criminal individual killer” Hicks merely did what Islam also teaches. This... Read more
By now it’s painfully obvious mainstream media loves a juicy terrorism story involving Muslims — but comparatively ignores the vast majority of the world’s Muslims who promote peace. The topic of caliphate perfectly illustrates this double standard. Since ISIS proclaimed their leader as a caliph about nine months ago, the media has given them round the clock coverage. Meanwhile, as I’ve already written about, media insists on ignoring an Islamic caliphate that has existed in peace for well over a century. Perhaps it was in... Read more
Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and overcome ISIS terrorism. Perhaps most frustrating about the article is it offers no new insights, analysis, or solutions. It simply regurgitates baseless claims previously addressed and debunked numerous times by multiple scholars. It is impractical to respond to every fallacious claim... Read more
By Imam Rizwan Khan What is the hypocrisy of atheism? It is to deny the validity of belief, all the while holding one’s own set of beliefs. When atheists hold their own blind beliefs, they have no right to ask anyone else for scientific evidence for their beliefs? So what blind beliefs do atheists hold? Plenty, but let’s start with their belief in ‘good’. Atheists assume that it is possible to define morality without God, that the actions of humans... Read more
By Saima Sheikh I was horrified to read the news of the murders of three Muslims in Raleigh, North Carolina. As I learned the details of the brutal murders of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, this sounded more like a movie than real life. I couldn’t believe that three young people who had so much potential and a bright future ahead of them were killed ‘execution style,’ meaning that they... Read more
By Saima Sheikh Anti-blasphemy laws that punish profane or contemptuous speech, writing or actions concerning God or anything held as divine are nothing new. They’ve been around for centuries. According to a 2012 Pew Research study, a quarter of the world’s countries have such laws, with punishment ranging from fines to death. Western countries such as Ireland, Canada, Germany and Poland have these laws, although they’re not enforced. Some countries are considering repealing these laws after the Charlie Hebdo attack, while Middle... Read more
By Saima Sheikh It seems that Christian extremists have found a new hero, Christine Weick. She is the woman who disrupted the Muslim Friday prayer service in the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. last November. Christine alleged that the Muslims took over the National Cathedral to make a statement. Muslims didn’t take over the Cathedral but were invited and hosted by Rev. Gina Campbell. At last Thursday’s ‘Texas Muslim Day’ in Austin, organized by CAIR (Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations),... Read more
By Saima Sheikh I have been a naturalized U.S. citizen for more than 25 years and a proud Texan for 22 years. But this past Thursday, I felt ashamed and offended because of the xenophobic comments by Texas State Rep.Molly White on her Facebook page. She states, “Today is Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin. The House is in recess until Monday. Most Members including myself are back in District. I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk... Read more
By Imam Rizwan Khan Follow Imam Rizwan Khan on Twitter @ImamRizwanKhan This post is a follow up to Imam Rizwan Khan’s previous article on atheism and belief in the unseen: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/islamahmadiyya/2015/01/belief-in-the-unseen/#ixzz3QYrqR2rk If a Christian ever challenged me and asked, “What scientific proof do you have for the existence of Allah,” would I start giving him evidences? Obviously not. I would respond, “What right do you have to demand evidence when you yourself believe in the existence of the Trinity?” This is exactly how... Read more
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