This post is a follow up to a continued Twitter conversation. I post here as Twitter is often too terse to communicate effectively, and that can unnecessarily, through brevity, create an implied tone of hostility that is not intended. @ReasonOnFaith not selective, its based on chains of transmissions. This is hadith 101. — UMA1R_ MAL1K […]
Selecting and Rejecting Early Islamic Historical Accounts
This is a follow up to a Twitter conversation. My additional thoughts follow. The Qur’an doesn’t speak to many important topics, like the number of daily prayers, the method of prayer, nor the crime of rape — as a few of many, many examples. Muslims end up going to traditions and historical biographies to fill […]
No Compulsion in Religion, Apostasy and Abrogation
This post is a response to this Twitter conversation (since deleted by Ahmadi Muslim Twitter user, @UMA1R_). My concluding thoughts on the matter follow. “Disbelievers” are referenced numerous times in the Qur’an, agreed. This mention of “disbelievers” is far more frequent than the nuanced concept of apostasy from Islam. Freedom of belief can be (1) freedom […]
Responding to Whataboutery from Katherine Mellow
This is a response to this tweet from user @katydid_alot. @ReasonOnFaith @AtheistRepublic @ArminNavabi Noble words. Now,if only I saw u actually DOING so. Where’ve u been for the Uigers or Rohingya? — katherine mellow (@katydid_alot) August 18, 2016 Most people sharing opinions on Twitter are not paid journalists or paid activists. Many sites and organizational […]
Secular Islam and the Jizya tax on Non-Muslims
This video dialog between Armin Navabi (an ex-Muslim atheist) and Kashif N. Chaudhry (a practicing Ahmadi Muslim) raised all kinds of interesting tangents that there wasn’t time for in the already long discussion. On the topic of zakat vs. jizya (discussed near the end of the video), it’s interesting that zakat is a tax on inactive […]
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