Is it worth talking with the radicals and the extremists? Should members of the Muslim community engage extremists and radicals in public discussions? By Mike Ghouse Each one of us thinks differently. We have a choice to ‘stay away from each other’ and let the ill-will, suspicion and doubts simmer to become unmanageable. I hope…
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American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Middle East, Mike GhouseBrigitte Gabrielle , Center for Pluralism , FOX News , Islam , Mike Ghouse , Muhammad , Muslim world , Pamela Geller , Radicals among Muslims , religion News , Sean Hannity , Stuart Varney , The Arab Daily News , Varney & Co Don’t jump to conclusions, it is not the Muslim thing to do. Muslims never had the freedom to speak out, even though freedom of speech is one of the greatest values of Islam. Quran positively asserts on freedom – there is no compulsion, period! In the 1400 years of our history, we did not get…
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Mike GhouseAllah , anti-Semitism , God , Hadith books , Hilali Khan Translation , Ibn Kathir , Ibn Taymiyyah , Islam , Islamic Divorce , Maududi , Muhammad , Muslim , Muslim Speaker Mike Ghouse , Muslim world , Pluralism , Prophet's Last Sermon , Quran , Sharia Laws By Mike Ghouse No one has a right to declare that Shiism or Sunnism is false and heretical. One of the major differences between Shia and Sunni traditions is about the role of leadership. When Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was returning from his last pilgrimage, he gathered the caravan at an oasis called Ghadir Khumm and…
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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Mike Ghouse, religionIran , Iraq , Islam , Muhammad , Mushrik , Muslim , Muslim Speaker Mike Ghouse , Muslim Thinker , Quran , Shia Islam , Shirk , Sunni Islam , Takfiri Mindset , Takfiriyat By Abdennour Toumi — Paris – France The “Charlie” spirit still haunts France’s politicians, media, academicians and streets. France pre-January 7/15 is no longer France post-January 11/15. Meanwhile on the avenues, in the banlieues (suburbs), and Sunday markets everything seems to be going at a normal pace, and life moves on. Still the tension is…
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American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Obits, Ray HananiaArab , Arab people , Arabic language , Chicago , Grocery store , Illinois , Joliet Store clerk , Mohammed Eid , Muhammad , murder , Muslim , robbery Combating terrorism must include religious reform, which cannot take place in absence of comprehensive political reform The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemns the terrorist acts that shook the French capital city, Paris last week, and which took the lives of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, and four others in a…
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Is it worth talking with the radicals and the extremists?
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Is it worth talking with the radicals and the extremists? Should members of the Muslim community engage extremists and radicals in public discussions? By Mike Ghouse Each one of us thinks differently. We have a choice to ‘stay away from each other’ and let the ill-will, suspicion and doubts simmer to become unmanageable. I hope…
Read more »