Dawah and Interfaith 
The Doha Debates: An Insider’s Perspective (Yasir Qadhi, Asra Nomani & Women’s Freedom to Marry)(190)
Four months ago, while attending the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) conference in Doha, some of us were invited to be part of the audience of the Doha Debates. Little did I know back then that I would be back in the same hall, only this time I would be sitting on the platform rather than in the audience! Last week, the producers of the program contacted me, asking if I would be willing to appear on the Debates as a speaker. The motion was ‘This house believes that Muslim women should be free to marry anyone they choose’, and I was invited to be a speaker on the opposition… More problematic than the logistics of travel was the motion itself. Any time a male opposes a motion with the three words, ‘Muslim’, ‘women’ and ‘freedom’ in them, he is simply asking for trouble.
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The Gitmo Guard Who Converted to Islam
Taken from Newsweek
The Guard Who Found Islam
Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners at Gitmo. What he saw made him adopt their faith.
Dan Ephron
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan [...]
Spiritual Empowerment Through The Qur’an
On February 14th, for the first time in the history of Dallas, over 600 people converged upon a small masjid for a 1 day conference with 7 local Imams. Below is the talk that I delivered at the conference, and it is entitled ‘Spiritual Empowerment Through the Qur’an”
We Need To Progress; But Where To? Part 2
What does it mean when some insist that ‘Islam needs to progress’ or that ‘it needs reforming’? What must it progress towards? How is progress to be measured? What needs reforming of Islam, and why? And who should take on the task of reformation?
