Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of […]
To Beat ISIS, the Arab World Must Promote Political and Religious Reforms
Source: The Daily Beast Last week’s counter-terrorism conference in Jeddah can be summed up in two words: lost opportunity. Why? None of the participants were representative of an independent, democratic or critical voice in the Middle East. Rather, the Muslim scholars who participated were voices of their inept governments, who […]
Saudi Arabia’s chief export is Wahhabism
Source: Daily Beast. More than oil, Saudi Arabia’s chief export is Wahhabism, which it has promoted around the world through its embassies and mosques to eventually be cloned by jihadist groups, like ISIS. Wahhabism is the most conservative, oppressive and exclusionary form of Islam, which considers all non-Wahhabists enemies — […]
Let’s Not Destroy ISIS
Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]
Let's Not Destroy ISIS
Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]
The U.S. plan leaves lingering doubts
Summary by Rami G. Khouri I dearly wish that ISIS will be contained and then defeated by the many countries and armed groups who say they are committed to achieving that goal. I lack confidence in this aspect of the American approach because it is foolhardy to expect that such […]