This series of essays is not meant to be a witch-hunt against a school. We have enough professional scurrilous rumour-mongerers in our community, without an amateur lending assistance. I am not concerned with the quality of ice creams in the school canteen nor the he said/she said gossip mill, but rather whether our whole approach... Read More

Any favourable mention of ‘democracy’ in an Islamic setting will invariably provoke an outraged response from some Muslims. “Democracy is shirk (polytheism) because it replaces the laws of Allah with man-made laws,” will be the essential argument. Ergo, any Muslim who suggests that the absence of democracy in the Muslim lands is a bad thing... Read More