Hamza Yusuf was not famous just for being White
In the aftermath of the Hamza Yusuf Syria controversy (see previous entry), a Medium post by Umar Lee, once a fixture on the Muslim blogging scene of the 2000s, has been circulated on social...
Category: Living Tradition
Second proggie group hit by mass resignations
Via Dr Maxtor, another representative-only-of-themselves “Progressive Muslim” group, the so-called Muslim Canadian Congress, has been hit by the resignation of several of its board. Readers might remember that a similar group, the Progressive Muslim...
GF Haddad on praying for show
From Mere Islam, GF Haddad has written a piece debunking the false arguments used by Amina Wadud and her gang to justify such actions as the false prayers in New York, which by their...
Hanania throws his toys as Proggie circus hits Barcelona
Umm Zaid ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo have had some correspondence with Ray Hanania, one of the advisory board for the so-called Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism despite being a Christian (albeit an...
Guardian: religious reform and iconoclasm
More comment on the Rushdie reform call, this time from Giles Fraser, “vicar of Putney and a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford”, in the Guardian. It brings in the issue of the...
Rushdie: Careful what you wish for!
There was a letter published in the Washington Post last Friday by one Irfan Murtuza attempting to rebut Salman Rushdie’s distasteful call for “reforming” the religion he makes money from insulting (thanks Ginny). The...
Zia Sardar weighs in on Wadud debate
It’s been a few months since I last contributed an entry to the “ZiaWatch” category, which lies sort-of orphaned with just three entries. Ziauddin Sardar’s writings are a topic which is dear to my...
Who are we not to judge?
Muslim WakeUp recently published an article, Let God Be the Judge, in which the author recalls the emotional act she put on when asked to sign a declaration that the Qadiani sect are not...
“Defending Islam” by attacking hadeeth
Every so often Muslims run into people who believe Islam exists without the hadeeth literature - the record of what the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said or did. There are a couple...
Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots
Al-Jazeera’s English site has published an article, Beware of Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots, warning Muslims to beware of people within the community who follow the Rand Corporation’s agenda: Their assignment is to trigger multiple...
This Rand report
The Rand Corporation, a non-profit political think-tank, has published a report entitled Civil Democratic Islam, a proposal for how the West can deal with the Muslim world in a way that suits its own...