Posts tagged as: Hadith

Fitzgerald: That Muslim Economic Summit in Washington

Fitzgerald: That Muslim Economic Summit in Washington

Remember how Bush and his loyalists were reported as believing that if Iraq, or rather the fiction they described as “the Iraqi people,” could be made “prosperous” through the introduction of “free-market ideas,” then the lure and appeal of terrorism would be diminished? Remember how Americans were not only to…

Fitzgerald: Isobel Coleman and Sakena Yacoobi “looking for loopholes” in the Qur’an, or, In the Muslim world, will Jesuitical casuistry improve the condition of women?

Fitzgerald: Isobel Coleman and Sakena Yacoobi “looking for loopholes” in the Qur’an, or, In the Muslim world, will Jesuitical casuistry improve the condition of women?

I listened recently on NPR to a discussion about Empowerment of Women In Islam. The two guests were Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan who for many years lived in the United States and is now back in Afghanistan, and Isobel Coleman, who after years in business (mainly as a McKinsey consultant),…

Theology for a Holocaust

Theology for a Holocaust

Is UC-San Diego student and MSA member Jumanah Imad Albahri being an observant Muslim in promoting genocide against Jews?

Somalia: Islamic supremacists order radio stations to stop playing music

Somalia: Islamic supremacists order radio stations to stop playing music

Noting that Islamic law forbids musical instruments and music itself except in some strictly defined circumstances will bring you swift charges of “ignorance” and “Islamophobia,” but the “militiamen” in Iraq who believe that music is un-Islamic are not ignorant “Islamophobes”: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded…

Baghdad: Islamic supremacists have “closed music stores, prohibited the mixing of the sexes, banned wedding parties, imposed the Islamic hijab on women and murdered gay men”

Baghdad: Islamic supremacists have “closed music stores, prohibited the mixing of the sexes, banned wedding parties, imposed the Islamic hijab on women and murdered gay men”

Noting that Islamic law forbids musical instruments will bring you swift charges of “ignorance” and “Islamophobia,” but the “militiamen” in Iraq who believe that music is un-Islamic are not ignorant “Islamophobes”: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and…

Saudi writer faces blasphemy charges for calling a hadith “barbaric”

Saudi writer faces blasphemy charges for calling a hadith “barbaric”

Unfortunately, there’s no word from this report or from Arab News, cited below, about which hadith is at issue, or which collection (Bukhari, Muslim, etc.). Or course, there are plenty to choose from, whether it be the ones about Aisha’s age at marriage, the murder of K’ab bin Ashraf, or…

Fitzgerald: The Michael Coren Show: “We Are All Homers”

Fitzgerald: The Michael Coren Show: “We Are All Homers”

Please take 12 minutes and 45 seconds and watch the two YouTube segments from a show hosted by Michael Coren. Part 1 is above. Part 2, which I will discuss in a future piece, is here. Thank you. Now we can continue. Recently Michael Coren, host of a discussion…

Napolitano Stumbles Upon Islamic Jihad

Napolitano Stumbles Upon Islamic Jihad

Will the Obama administration now make an issue out of where Hasan got his “violent Islamic extremism” from?

Fitzgerald: Joe Stack, Nihad Awad, Andrew Sullivan, and Terrorism

Fitzgerald: Joe Stack, Nihad Awad, Andrew Sullivan, and Terrorism

Last week a 53-year-old software engineer, Joseph Stack, became enraged about his business failures, and tax problems he had had all during the 1980s and 1990s, and, in particular, with a provision in the Code called “Treatment of Certain Technical Personnel.” In his suicide-note-and-farewell, Stack ranted about “pompous political thugs”…

Obama’s counterterrorism czar: “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle”

Obama’s counterterrorism czar: “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle”

From Umdat al-Salik, Englished as Reliance of the Traveller, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University in Cairo as conforming “to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community”: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the…



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