SAFspace draws our attention to an interesting article about Toronto’s Jewish community and their philanthropy. She writes: A colleague once told me of a hospital that had designed a state-of-the-art multifaith room with funds from donors of the various faith communities in Toronto. The walls of the room were etched with the names of donors,... Read More

Living in the West, one is occasionally confronted by a disdain for Islam, an example of which is the women’s literature section of the local bookstore (be it Waterstones, Readings, or Borders). There are shelves groaning with oppressed women’s stories from the Muslim world. The genre of ‘lustful violent Muslim first-person female narrative potboilers’ is... Read More

Tariq Nelson has an excellent piece on a social problem that will be familiar to many Australian Muslims: the pressure to conform that comes not from the broader non-Muslim community but from the Muslim community itself. The regular, everyday Muslim, who is under pressure to toe the line set above by the movement leaders is... Read More

It will surprise many to know that the most definitive proof in Islamic law is NOT the Quran, nor is it the Sunnah (the prophetic tradition), it is the consensus (ijma) of the body (or Ummah) of Muslims. Obviously the Ijma must be based on sound Quranic or hadeeth evidence, but where interpretation of these... Read More