Global Intifada

Francis Fukuyama praised the fall of the Soviet Union as the end of ideological confrontations and hailed the long-awaited supremacy of liberal democratic capitalism as the end of mankind’s ideological development. The end of the cold war era has resulted in radical shifts not only in relationships of power between the north and the south […]

The victory of HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood in elections, the continued persistency of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the formation of an entrenched Iraqi resistance, Muslim protests against Western hegemony . . . are we finally witnessing the long-awaited Islamic response to imperialism?
It seems strange, however, that such small movements will be able to make […]

Images flood our television sets of angry, militant Muslims burning, yelling, and murdering non-Muslims and one another due to the so-called deep offense that they took at a series of cartoons that were published by a Danish newspaper. The actions of our brethren have, unfortunately, vindicated every historical allegation that Islam is an inherently violent, […]

I’ve recieved some criticism from some (:cough: Hanafi :cough) brothers for joining another madhab.
I would like to state some elucidate the more influential aspects as to why I chose to join the Maliki madhab. The reason why I didn’t mention them was because I thought that simply citing the books and texts I had read […]

Bismillah.
I recently decided to join the Maliki madhab. This was due to two independent sets of reasons that finally converged and culminated in my decisions to switch madhabs. The first set of reasons had to do with my dissatisfaction to particular opinions within the Hanafi madhab. The second set of reasons had to do with […]

Fear and Love became
Embroiled in a friendly discourse.
Each Argued passionately
That there was no other recourse,
Save for the path
Of each one’s own force

Fear boasted proudly:
I keep the human race alive by making them aware of threats. Without me, humans would be attacked by beasts and one another and made extinct.

Love was silent.

Fear boasted proudly:
I […]

I purchased a book a long time ago that was published in the late 1980’s that warned that the greatest threat to US access to oil was not radical regimes that would institute oil embargoes at their whim or other foreign powers penetrating a hitherto American monopoly, but rather, the diverting of oil energy for […]

I wrote on the UMCP’s Diamondback website in one of their user comments section to an article.
I can’t believe I made so many grammatical errors. You fail dude. You fail at the game of life.
:thumbdown:
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Freedom of speech is not some metaphysical being that exists outside of reality that is to be worshipped. It developed within […]

Bismillah.
Assalamu alaikum,
May this reach you all in the best state of health and iman. Ameen.
Like most Muslims, I have been deeply offended by the recent publications of derogatory charicatures of the Prophet (saw) in various newspapers accross the world. I have pondered long and hard as to what the proper reaction should be by American […]

“It was discord between the Muslim princes, as we shall describe, that enabled the Franks to overrun the country. Abu-l-Muzaffar al-Abiwardi composed several poems on this subject, in one of which he says:
We have mingled blood with flowing tears, and there is no room left in us for pity (?)
To shed tears is a man’s […]