Abu Eesa at his new blog Alternative Entertainment has some thoughts on insurance. He makes the usual distinction made by the scholars between mutual insurance (permissible) and commercial insurance (generally considered to be impermissible) and then proceeds to discuss some of these objections. Leaving aside the question of whether commercial insurance is or is not...Read More

In a department store yesterday, a sales assistant was helping me with a product; he needed to check the price and when he got back to me, he went to ring through the transaction. In the interim, a woman had gone to the counter, products on hand ready to buy. Technically I was there first...Read More

The thought of their head of state being married to a woman who wears the dreaded hijab appears too much for some Turks to handle. As al-Ahram put it: Secularist Turks regard having a head-scarfed first lady in the presidential palace as a violation of the secular state. And the military is so distressed that...Read More

We are very pleased to present a guest post from Ozrisk. This is a reprint of an article published in Business Islamica Magazine. Since the first large-scale Muslim migration to Australia occurred in the early 1970s, the Islamic community has grown from just a few thousand, concentrated in the suburbs of Melbourne, to become the...Read More