Exploring contemporary issues from an islamic perspective
With slogans like “stop the steal” is Donald Trump undermining democracy or defending it? The readiness of people to see malfeasance in their opponents rather than sincere but possibly wrong opinions is driving polarisations that challenge the basic foundations of how we can agree to disagree.
The use of knowledge is fundamentally a right, and preventing its use is a crime of forcing someone to not use their mind sincerely…
Covid kills by suffocation and vitamin C can help prevent this.
Many people reject religion based on the following rhetorical question:
if God is so good and all powerful why is there so much suffering?
What is the real source of law in Islam? Why did the Muslim world lead in science only to be left behind? Here are some offered insights.
The Brexit deal that Theresa May brought back is not what people think it is. It is just a transition agreement, the real negotiations have yet to start. All that has been agreed is a way that the UK will be allowed to begin trade negotiations without the conflict of interest of being at the same time a member of the EU. Read more…
Islamophobia is in the news again with the attacks in New Zealand in many people’s minds. Professor Jordan Peterson is also back in the news for the cancellation of a planned time at Cambridge University in the UK due to an unfortunate photograph.
Last week I joined the Labour party. The final thing that made me do so was the tweet battle between Israeli PM Netanyahu and Labour party leader Corbyn
Emotions are an annoyingly vague type of thought. Something can make you angry in the morning and you may find yourself angry at something completely unrelated hours later which you would not otherwise have cared about. Emotions linger in your mind and cause many misunderstandings. Reasoning based on emotions can be dangerous to your mental health, but we all do it.
All it needs for you to be manipulated into any belief is misdirecting your focus. If you don’t look directly at the problem, you are at risk of seeing what is not there. This is the basic method of magic tricks – misdirection….
There are many levels of this manipulation. The whole agenda behind preventing violent extremism is one of the biggest…