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Homeschooling: On NY Times’s Stereotyping(61)
For once, MM is slightly behind on an interesting and relevant news story - you can blame me for that, though!
The notorious Neil MacFarquhar recently wrote an article in the NYT about Muslims turning to homeschooling - with the now-typical negative slant, making it seem as though the only reasons for which Muslim […]
Women Only Gyms: What’s all the fuss about?
There’s nothing like the thought of a gym or swimming pool running women-only sessions (at the request of Muslim women) to get some men all worked up. Take the recent ‘controversy’ surrounding one of Harvard University’s gymnasiums. Andrew Sullivan rushes to denounce it as “shariah at Harvard’; Jihadwatch says they have submitted to Islam; and […]
Authority of the Sunnah Part-2: Hadith=Revelation Q&A
The first post raised multiple issues and comments, so I will try to summarize a few of the main points here insha’Allah with some responses.
Do Hadith have chains of narration unlike Quran?
The Quran was required to be memorized word for word, down to items we can not explain. We do not label verses of the […]
My Challenge to the Houston Chronicle’s Editors
Last Thursday (February 21), the Houston Chronicle, my hometown paper, published an editorial discussing the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about integrating sharia-based courts into the British legal system. In their argument they asserted that such an idea would be harmful to the British populace, and especially harmful to women because, they claim, sharia […]
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