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Does It Really Matter What People Call the So-Called Islamic State?

Edit The Atlantic 01 Jun 2016
... that important? When that organization calls itself “the Islamic State,” and it takes inspiration from actual Islamic theology and administers actual territory, why not refer to it as such? What’s the use of opting instead, as many government officials have, for derogatory acronyms like the Arabic Daesh, or taunts like the “Un-Islamic Non-State”?....

Sharia Courts ‘Greatly Benefit’ Britain

Edit Breitbart 29 May 2016
A regular voice on Radio 4’s Thought For The Day, Professor Mona Siddiqui, billed on the slot as an expert in Islamic theology, will chair the inquiry looking into whether or not Sharia courts have broken British laws on gender equality, The ......

Bill Jamieson: Remember the peaceful side of Islam

Edit Scotsman 25 May 2016
Dr Hamid was a one-time Islamic extremist ... Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam ... He moved to the West and has lectured widely against Islamic fundamentalism ... “Until Type B Islam dominates Islamic theology and teaching”, he writes, “and until the Muslim world shows clear and unequivocal opposition to atrocities perpetrated in the name of Islam, attempting to view the religion relativistically is dangerous and improper....

Sweden to launch its first state-funded imam course

Edit The Local 23 May 2016
Sweden is to launch its first state-funded Islamic theology programme this autumn, which the course organizers hope will provide more locally-educated imams ... ....

after a meeting between Pope Francis...

Edit Topix 23 May 2016
"In Egypt great importance is given to the meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar. even the most popular newspapers dedicate large space to the event on the front page, and report that the decision to resume official dialogue between the Holy See and the largest Sunni Islam's theological institution has already been taken" ... ....

A glimpse into the fog of life under Islamic State

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 2016
What little we know about everyday life inside the so-called Islamic State we mostly find out second or third-hand ... There is no ready counterpoint for local information from Islamic State ... (Todenhofer concludes his book with a rather silly open letter to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his fighters, invoking Gandhi, and debating the finer points of Islamic theology.)....

Pakistan's right-wing media vs Habib University

Edit Dawn 25 Apr 2016
Take a look. Jawaharlal Nehru University row. Freedom of speech now Modi-fied in New Delhi. On April 14, Habib University hosted a learned American scholar of Islamic studies, Professor Marcia Hermansen, who presented a seminar titled, ‘Cultural Worlds/Cultural Wars ... Professor Hermansen has spent a lifetime researching Islam. She has produced hundreds of articles and books exploring Islamic theology, Muslim cultures, and Muslim women ... ....

Scotland Yard warns Muslims against sectarian feuds after Glasgow murder

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
A University of Cambridge lecturer, Timothy Winter – who is also known as Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad – was accused of exhibiting bigotry after rejecting an invitation by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association to speak on Islamic theology at an inter-faith meeting in 2013 ... The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, which is based in Jordan, has described Winter as “one of the most well-respected western theologians”....

Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia

Edit Slashdot 23 Apr 2016
"The report, which analyzed the histories of 100 of the most prominent jihadist leaders of the last three decades, said that despite claiming to be the sole interpreters of Islamic theology, they often ......

‘Materialistic’ Christianity Is A Threat To National Security: A Reply

Edit Modern Ghana 22 Apr 2016
A typical example is how the Dutch Reformed Church twisted the scriptures to provide theological rationalization for the apartheid in South Africa ... In fact, until later in the history of Islam, the Muslims prayed facing Jerusalem ... Anyway, the event is very central to Islamic theology, since it contributed to trimming down Islamic prayer from 50 to 5 times daily!....

Canceling Hamas in Wichita

Edit The American Spectator 15 Apr 2016
The violence we see in Europe is not a function of Islamic theology but of alienation and marginalization — of Europe’s inability to integrate its Muslims ... Against this backdrop, one would have expected various Muslim communities to go out of their way to reassure their fellow Americans that indeed the wanton killing of innocent citizens is not Islam ... Talib and the Islamic Society of Wichita....

Scent of Ajmal's success lingers in home town Hojai

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
Hojai (Nagaon). On the sprawling courtyard of a madrassa in Alinagar, about 3 km from Hojai town in central Assam's Nagaon district, students wearing spotless white kurta-pyajamas play basketball ... The fifth was born in Mumbai ... "They are very naek (righteous people) ... A Fazil-e-Deoband (which is equivalent to a master's degree in Islamic theology and Arabic) from Darul Uloom Deoband, Badruddin juggles politics and social work deftly ... ....

Egypt offers scholarships to Ugandan university students

Edit Topix 05 Apr 2016
The scholarships cover courses in science, Arts and Islamic theology, a statement issued by the UMSC spokesperson Haji Nsereko Mutumba said. Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt has offered 26 scholarships to Muslim students in Uganda, according to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council ... ....
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