This is part six of a ten part muse regarding Muhammad and Jesus. This segment will serve as the Divinely Approved War and Curses Divinely Approved War and Curses The issue of whether Jesus engaged in, approved of, or commanded war and curses is a simple business there is no such indication in the N...

The Mohammad Ali versus Mike Tyson battle ends in a draw, with both legendary fighters chosen as cover athletes for EA's Fight Night Round 4. One floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee; the other bites your damned ear right off. Seems fans voting at AliorTyson.com couldn't decide, so EA decid...

This is part four of a ten part muse regarding Muhammad and Jesus. This segment will serve as the Regarding Wives Regarding Wives There are various points to be made regarding wives:Muhammad ordains polygamy in Surah 4:3, “marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four.� When Muhammad wanted...

The Obama administration is looking for new ways to deal with Iran and its nuclear program, even though it has been revealed that the Islamic Republic now has enough low-enriched uranium (more than 1,000 kilograms of the stuff) to make at least one nuclear bomb. The new U.S. ambassador to the U.N. S...

It’s been four weeks since the end (or temporary pause) of the war on Gaza. Israel’s merciless pounding of the tiny, sealed strip of land, chronically overcrowded with three generations of refugees, resulted (predictably) in a massive loss of life and catastrophic levels of destruction. My fathe...

This is part three of a ten part muse regarding Muhammad and Jesus. This segment will serve as the Virgin Birth Affirmed Virgin Birth Affirmed This segment is merely meant to make reference to the Surah’s that make reference to Jesus’ virgin birth.Surah 19:19-22, “He said: ‘Nay, I am only a ...

This is part two of a ten part muse regarding Muhammad and Jesus. This segment will serve as the Heavenly Bliss Heavenly Bliss The Qur'an itself is not very descriptive of heaven or paradise. The two statements about what it is actually like are as follows:Surah 88:10-16, In a lofty Paradise.Where t...

Islam considers both Muhammad and Jesus to have been prophets of Allah. This is an introduction to a ten part series which will consider their similarities and differences. This segment will serve as the Introduction . Introduction Some of the distinctions between Muhammad and Jesus are as follows: ...

Not only was Mohammad Asafuddowlah a prominent politician and business leader in Bangladesh, but he's a newspaper editor and gets to set the agenda and tone in political circles. Apparently his version of peace and mine differ sharply. He prefers the peace that comes as the result of genocide and th...

It is quite easy, against the backdrop of carnage and death unleashed on the Gaza Strip over the past month, to forget just how tough and how desperate life has been in Gaza for years. From the nakba in 1948 that saw Gaza’s population explode overnight with the influx of refugees that have never b...