In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful, and may Allah bless and grant peace to our Messenger Muhammad and his family and companions. In trying to make sense of the appalling and utterly unacceptable Israeli slaughter of the defenceless Palestinians of Gaza, we must nevertheless look for causes and not surrender our …
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Ya Ayyuha’sh-Shabaab
There is an apparently coherent narrative that posits a mythic ‘salafi’ Islam at war in defence of the Muslims against ‘Zionist Jews’ and ‘Crusader Christians’ in a triangular religious configuration. Since it is self-evident that there is slaughter of the Muslims in many lands on earth and their denigration in many other lands, what heroic …
Community and Caliphate
The jihad of the age is to invite and welcome people into Islam. This is quite different from the dialectical arguing that people do today and quite wrongly call da’wa. We repudiate utterly the ‘body count’ mentality of those preachers who go from city to city reaping ‘shahadas’ and leave in their wake a trail …
Debate
Debate without understanding, polemic without insight: why are they so much in fashion? Because they are so much easier than the arduous but rewarding task of understanding, which would change our lives and our behaviour. Because they are spectator sports like boxing. We are there for the thrill of the knockout and the blood on …
I am nothing
The claim “I am nothing” is perhaps the most arrogant claim of all, for there is that “I am” even if it is followed by “nothing”. It is like the abstemiousness of those who give up “things”. There may be nothing in the hand, but take a look at what is in the heart.
Nothing
Can someone who is nothing come to know One Who is no thing?
The Manufacture of Ignorance – Abdassamad Clarke and Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison
“I refused to go to college because I wanted an education.” Gore Vidal There is a vital need to re-introduce the independence of the scholar, scientist and expert, acknowledging that there are already a substantial number of such people within the academic nexus who against all odds have held to the highest qualities of scholarly …
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The Elephant in the Room – Abdassamad Clarke
The elephant in the room is of course not Islam, since the Muslims are everywhere under occupation, being bombed, killed and driven from their homes by warfare or famine, often the consequences of geo-politics or globalisation. The issue that will not go away is the imperial power of the US as the foremost representative of …
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Occupy Together – Abdassamad Clarke
The poet W. B. Yeats strove to make a unity of his life. “Hammer your thoughts into unity,” was his expression of that. Few things are more important for us today, as things and causes are automatically shunted into categorical boxes where they are rendered impotent like a freshly slaughtered Egyptian chicken tossed into a …
The Time of the Bedouin – Ian Dallas
In the definitive political statement for the coming century, Dallas analyses the foundational substance of political democracy, revealing at its heart terror and totalitarianism. And there also, wielding substantive power, unelected and largely unknown: the finance and commodities elite. Drawing on a panoply of European thinkers from Ibsen to Heidegger, Dallas then delineates the coming …