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Prophet Muhammad’s promise to Christians(Comments Off)

January 11, 2010

Muslims and Christians together constitute over fifty percent of the world and if they lived in peace, we will be half way to world peace. One small step that we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization.[...]

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How Muslims Should Dialogue With Others

There is no room for coercion in Islam. Islam appeals to people’s intellect, their minds, their sense of logic and reasoning in order to stress its claims. This principle can lay the basis for good relations between Muslims and people of other persuasions. Islam is not opposed to Muslims establishing social, economic or educational relations and bonds with others. This is why, from the early days of Islam onwards, Muslims have had these sorts of relations with others. [...]

Jihad and Imperialism

Some critics of Islam claim that the Islamic doctrine of jihad is but a license for imperialist conquest. There is, of course, no truth in this argument. When discussing this issue, we need to focus on what Islamic teachings about the subject are, instead of judging Islam by the actions of some self-styled Muslim rulers, who may have wrongly sought to legitimize their wars of conquests in the name of jihad.[...]

The Calamity of Extremist Thought: The Responsibilities of the Ulema and Muslim Intellectuals

Starting from the recent past, Muslims have fallen prey to certain absurd psychological weaknesses and aberrations in response to various forms of oppression and exploitation that they have suffered and from which they have not been able to free themselves.[...]


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