Tag: SECULARISM
Has our pandemic discourse become secular? | Sh Haitham & Sh Sajid on Unscripted #72
Sh Dr Haitham al-Haddad & Sh Dr Sajid Umar discuss in this special Unscripted episode an increasingly common pitfall of reducing discourse to the material, short-term causes and effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the latest lockdown.
Unmasking Western Modernity: Farangism Studies
“It isn’t atheism per se that the apostate Muslim is embracing,” writes sociologist Mirza Safwat. “It isn’t an intellectual matter but a civilizational one; it needs to be understood not philosophically but sociologically…”
Yasir Qadhi & Tariq Ramadan – Is France in crisis? | Unscripted #65
Prof Tariq Ramadan & Sh Yasir Qadhi join each other publicly for the first time...
How to keep your children Muslim | Ajmal Masroor | Unscripted #64
Imam Ajmal Masroor joins Salman in today’s podcast
Brexit – an inevitable disaster
Abdul Wahid argues that the political disasters we are witnessing today are inherent in the reigning secular political creeds
A Destructive Education
The burgeoning Muslim middle classes are walking into an epidemic, writes educationalist Usman Qureshi.
#NotreDame: Why is it that bricks matter more than bones in today’s secular world?
"The devastation of Notre Dame Cathedral has left me troubled," says Abdul Wahid. Find out why...
Trevor Noah, the World Cup & Tariq Ramadan: the French Connection
It seems “We are all French” is nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse for the dominant culture to be able to strip all others of theirs, writes Sh Zahir Mahmood
Turkey Votes to Redraw History
The new system will “make Turkey stronger and more stable. This is what frightens Europe.”
Fasting: a Revolt Against the Modern Condition
In 1960 Tunisia's secularist president Bourguiba asked the esteemed scholar Ibn ʿĀshūr to issue a fatwa to abandon fasting for its impact on the economy. Ibn ʿĀshūr went on public radio and responded…
