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On Hadith and righteousness: a debate
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Aziz Poonawalla
A few years ago, blogger Yursil had an interesting and provocative post about hadith and the theological methodology of the Salafi and Wahabi sects of Islam: The opposite of Taqlid is the approach taken by the Ahl ul Hadith (People of Hadith), otherwise known as Salafi’s or Wahabi’s. Their influence has been far and the…
Tricky Dick Cheney and the Shadow Government
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Aziz Poonawalla
For years, critics of the Bush Administration have noted that Vice-President Cheney wielded enormous power that was essentially beyond any oversihgt by Congress or the Judiciary. His infamous declaration that he was a “fourth branch of Government” was an attempt to place all actions within the protective shroud of “executive privelege”, a claim deried by…
Obama’s speech in Africa: transcript and word cloud
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama made the following address to the Parliament of Ghana on July 11th. It lays out in detail Obama’s approach to Africa as a whole, and I think provides a framework for moving forward that will result in genuine progress, if indeed he can retain the focus despite the distractions at home and elsewhere.…
“Eurabia” is hate speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
One of the pet projects of the Islamophobe industry is to issue dire warnings about how the tide of muslims in Europe is rising and threatening to wipe out European culture. There have been numerous factual rebuttals to this propaganda, but few have gotten wide exposure beyond the blogsphere. That is why i am glad…
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