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Quantum Note: Disenchantment with Islam

Quantum Note: Disenchantment with Islam

Posted on24. Feb, 2012 by .

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Women in America demonstrating for Islam

Those who call themselves Muslims while simultaneously disowning political aspects of Islam are in a strange dilemma: they do not want to leave the fold of Islam and they do not want to fulfill its rights. Instead, they choose to talk around the matter and find a way out of their collective obligations as Muslims [...]

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Quantum Note: Union of Muslim States

Posted on03. Feb, 2012 by .

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Such a union is the manifest destiny of Muslims, even though they are hopelessly fragmented into fifty-seven states at the moment. It is a destiny that is waiting to be realized. It has powerful historical support, its future prospects are bright and its rationale is built upon solid logic and clearly delineated arguments. By Dr. [...]

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Secularism: Legitimizing the Illegitimate

Posted on19. Feb, 2011 by .

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By Tarik Jan:
In the last leg of the Umayyad when the zanadiqah (atheists and secular) mounted their assault on the moral core of the Muslim society by spreading licentious living, free sex, liquor, gambling and above all atheism, the Abbasid caliphs al-Mahdi and al-Mansur decided to crush them. They not only killed them but also engaged eminent scholars to write books for the eradication of the then secular threat.

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Muslim Leadership

Posted on15. Aug, 2010 by .

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By Tarik Jan
Of all the things in Islam, the author likes shura the most perhaps because of its superficial similarity to parliamentary democracy. How about Islam’s moral and politico-economic concerns and its desire to create a new person who would worship Allah the Exalted and not the crass materialism of the capitalistic society? Would it have any place in the author’s agenda for the Muslim leadership? For sure, it is the shari‘ah alone that will give us dignity, authenticity, and the drive for excellence and justice for all. The wretched of the earth can still wear the crown.

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