Recent twitter discussion on hadith, authenticity, chain of transmission vs. biographies (Sira) with hadith cited of various chain of transmission strengths got me thinking… How would a true historical event that is not flattering to Muhammad, even get passed along by devout believing Muslims who would rather reject it and dismiss it? Wouldn’t that leave […]
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 […]