A brother once told me “Islamic knowledge is the most important thing one will ever receive, more precious even than the food one eats, so think carefully from whom you take it.” The most overused and abused term in the contemporary Australian Muslim vernacular is Sheikh, in its broadest meaning it means an elder who... Read More

It seems that there are virtually no Muslim authors who inject a fairly universal and positive Islamic worldview into their fiction (and I am speaking strictly about fiction). We’re all aware of the ubiquitous Muslim interest novel: the picture of a veiled woman, her kohl-lined eyes peering out from her black scarf, gracing the cover.... Read More

Umar Lee has an interesting series of posts on the Rise and Fall of the Salafi da’wah in the US. He writes about the spread of Salafiism in the United States in the 1990s, the subsequent schism which occurred in 1996 and the eventual decline of the “movement”. Kashif, a British veteran of the Salafi... Read More

Being a Muslim this is particularly shameful, but one of the few authentically halal places in Casablanca is the McDonald’s. It does not serve alcohol, nor does it have pork on the menu unlike most “Muslim” establishments nearby on the waterfront in Casablanca. Surely the ultimate irony? The Trojan Horse of western cultural imperialism is... Read More