“try asking what really makes people commit acts of terorism” — Indeed, why should we, while Reagan’s former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a former German Cabinet Minister, and the former Chief of Staff of Russia’s armed forces are telling us loud and clear that we are witnessing false flag attacks?

Wa salaam

As for Shaykh bin Baz and the whole flat Earth issue, I never did find a source for those claims. This should help, insha Allah:

http://www.fatwa-online.com/fa.....040819.htm (these are actually the words of bin Baz, rahimahullah- they used to have the audio file there, but I don’t know where it has gone).

However, we should also remember that the shaykh was a geocentricist (a position on which I’m not aware of any dissent except for very recently in history). Martin Lings once said he never could trace the point at which heliocentricism reached the Muslim world (I’ll assume it was the colonial period).

Other than that we have your usual negligence, which passes over the fact that much or even most of what these writers criticise is genuinely Muslim practice/belief (e.g. polygyny, belief in magic etc) regardless of sectarian persuasion.

But I suppose you and your spineless brethren fail to mention that, which is perhaps why ‘traditional’ Muslims aren’t at the receiving end of so much flak. I wonder, if Tower Hamlets had received similar complaints about copies of ‘Umdat asSalik, whether you would have been singing the same tune. But consistency always goes down the toilet with you, doesn’t it Yusuf?