The word Islam derives from the word Salam, which means peace but in a secondary sense it also means surrender. The peace that comes from surrendering ones life to god. Those who adhere to Islam are known as Muslims. Islam follows the bible to the extent of the banishment of Ishmael and Hagar from the ...
I hadn’t read any book reviews of The Trouble With Islam Today when I first picked up the book by Irshad Manji. The title and back cover description drew me in immediately. I was looking for something different to read and a book that made me think. This book easily provided me both. Manji sees ...
Muslim wedding tradition Muslim marriages are traditionally arranged by the groom’s family who selects the bride. The first Muslim wedding tradition, once the bride is chosen, is the Mangni. The Mangni is the engagement ceremony where rings are exchanged. The outfit worn by the bride-to-be at the Mangni is provided by the family of the ...
A famous general of the German army, Erwin Rommel said: “One man is a genius; one million people are a mass of fools.” 450 thousand years ago something changed. Someone or something made possible the existence of man. The only difference between man and animal is the reason. This makes us be more powerful than ...
Time and again, human institutions have demonstrated an enormous capacity to create and mythologize hero figures. The French took an illiterate peasant named Joan and turned her into God’s military lieutenant on Earth, the Russians entombed a loud-mouthed economist-turned-politician and suddenly Lenin’s corpse became a holy shrine, and we Americans took a hemp-farming slaveholder and ...
