The facts about honour killings in Islam
Honour killing is a cultural practice that has not derived from Islam. Capital Death was mentioned in the Quran: ‘’ whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as Image by hoyasmeg via Flickr if he had slain mankind entirely.’’ Quran 5:32 – no mention [...]
What in God’s name….
A philistine writes on what’s wrong with today’s religion… I often apologise for my poor education and lack of culture, but for once I’m not going to apologise for the fact that I am appalled at the current brouhaha about Roman Catholicism and what it really stands for, especially in what is thankfully becoming more [...]
Princess Misha, Sakineh Ashtiani: Tales of death, religion and politics
I was young, once; we all were young. I could overhear murmuring coming from my eldest sister’s bedroom about ‘mawt amira’- death of a princess. I felt sad; when we are young, princesses and princes are associated with fairy tales and have influence over our fantasy worlds. But this was no fantasy. In the case [...]
Understanding Ramadan
Ramadan has united about 1.5 billion Muslims around the world despite their political, cults, sects differences and disagreement. Ramdan is the holy fasting month in the Muslim lunar calendar that consists of twelve months as below: Image via Wikipedia Muḥarram محرّم (or Muḥarram al Ḥaram) Ṣafar صفر (or Ṣafar al Muzaffar) Rabīʿ al-Awwal (Rabīʿ I) [...]
Insights into Islam part 2
What does Islam say about War? Islam permits fighting in self-defence, in defence of one’s faith, or on the part of those whose basic rights have been violated. It lays down strict rules of combat that include prohibitions against harming civilians and against destroying crops, trees and livestock. Terrorism; indiscriminate killing through means like suicide [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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