I remember blogging about this way back on March 22, 2008, Before the MSM started talking about it. But just as well, it seems that Fox News is now talking about it. Seen over at HotAir.com: While the piece is a bit overly dramatic, which does appeal to those on the far right. It does paint a

“Peace in the decades ahead can only be achieved when the pluralist nature of human society is understood, valued, and built upon, to construct a better future. In Islam, the pluralism of human society is well recognized, and the ethics of its multiple interpretations require that this diversity be accorded respect.” Extract from the remarks made

“But I think the more over-riding issue is the issue of theocracy versus secular state, and I think that at this point in time, the vast majority of countries within the Muslim world have recognized the difficulty of a theocratic state, and these difficulties are due to many different forces in these countries. But also,

Al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Din al-Shirazi was an outstanding Ismaili scholar. Born in about the year 1000 in Fars, Iran, al-Mu’ayyad spent most of his life serving the Caliph- Imam al-Mustansir bi’llah as dai (missionary). Al-Mu’ayyad was first active as the regional leader in his homeland of Fars in southern Iran. Al-Mu’ayyad eventually moved to Cairo in 1046,

In its 56 years of existence, McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies has grown from a gesture of interfaith camaraderie to a vital site of wide-ranging study. BY MARK ABLEY On a high shelf in Robert Wisnovsky’s spacious office stands a bust of a bearded man in a turban. It gazes down on a hive of intellectual activity—apart

This is a core principle of my own faith – Islam – that learning is ennobling, regardless of the geographic or cultural origin of the knowledge we acquire. Such teachings spurred a spiritually liberated people to new waves of adventure in the realms of the spirit and the intellect, amongst whose visible symbols were the

jo utar ke zeena-e-shaam se teri chashm-e-Khush mein sama gaye wohi jaltey bujhtey se mahar-o-maah mere baam-o-dar ko sajaa gaye yeh ajeeb khail hay ishq ka main ney aap dekhaa yeh mojza woh jo lafz meray gumaan mein thay woh teri zubaan par aa gaye woh jo geet tum ne suna nahin meri umar bhar kaa riyaz

sitarey jo damaktey hain kisi ki chashm-e-hairan mein mulaqatein jo hotii hain jamaal-e-abr-o-baaran mein yeh na abaad vaqton mein dil-e-naashaad mein hogii muhabbat ab nahin hogii ye kuchh din baad me.n hogii guzar jayen gay jab yeh din yeh un ke yaad mein ho gee.

by Stefan Fobes It’s been a trying time for the controllers who run things this year. Their puppet Bush dogged in the polls, the West starting to see what war is really all about, and with world focus newly aimed at economic matters, the prospect of an Iran war is fading away like water on a

I openly wonder if I can still consider myself an outsider at this point? I consider myself a friend of the Ahmaddiyah community first and foremost. I have been friends with members of this community for a little over a year now and as such I have been to a Qur’an conference, an