In a blistering 6 March New York Times op-ed, How Iran Completely and Utterly Botched Its Response to the Coronavirus, former Iranian doctors Kamiar Alaei and Arash Alaei conclude that, “The most important lesson of the coronavirus crisis in Iran is that health policy must never be politicized, especially in terms of emergency medical response.” […]
Allah’s Mischief, the Ummah’s Misery
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and make mischief in the land is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 8)
A contemporary Muslim is an anguished being preoccupied with mediaeval concerns. Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to […]
Tears for a Terrorist
I went out my front door one fine morning just as my neighbour, a Pakistani student, came out of his. We walked together to the bus stop where we would catch the bus to the university. His bloodshot eyes were swollen and his shoulders drooped. He walked with a stoop. “Are you OK? What’s wrong?” […]
A Book Critical to the Survival of Israel, and of Civilization as a Whole
Review of The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, by Robert Spencer. Bombardier Books, 2019. Kindle edition. Within days of the reviewer returning from her first trip to Israel, impressions still fresh in her mind, this book landed in her Kindle. Pre-ordering works. She read it in one night. The […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 7)
A contemporary Muslim is an anguished being preoccupied with mediaeval concerns. Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 6)
A contemporary Muslim is an anguished being preoccupied with mediaeval concerns. Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 5)
A contemporary Muslim is an anguished being preoccupied with mediaeval concerns. Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 4)
Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to the kafir, the unbeliever, treating the values and mores of the infidel […]
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 3)
Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to the kafir, the unbeliever, treating the values and mores of the infidel with […]