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Ed Husain on How Britain's mosques foster extremism Islamic group slams 'out of touch' imams for causing drift towards extremism Is The Antichrist Alive? By J. Grant Swank<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1210> Is Christian and Muslim Fundamentalism Based on the Wrong Premise? Did Man Create God? Gender equality consistent with Islamic teachings: Imrana Jalal by MARY JOHNS Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre in Glasgow by Selma A. Cook Accommodating radical Islam from Islamabad to Bradford by Mark Steyn U.S.-Islamic World Forum Includes Global Muslim Brotherhood Leaders; U.S. President Admired Pakistan’s pact with militants sets stage for future retreats Jihad books were in library Taliban targets UK with heroin, calls it chemical-jihad What Will This 'Peace' Cost? By Mustafa Qadri Our Hero Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury attacked again: How long we can remain silent? By Sunita Paul Is Islam innocent of Ms. Hassan's murder? The latest example of “honour killing,” By Mona Eltahawy Compiled by Syed Asadullah 3 Comments More. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1210 Islamic Society Sri Lanka Muslims: Tamil Converts or Arab Descendents? Dear Sultan Shahin Sahib, All of us in South Asia seem to suffer from some delusion that if we are of Arab/Iranian/central Asian or Pathan descent we are superior to other Indian Muslims. This article highlights this problem. Like the Sri Lankan Muslims many communities on the east and west coast of south India i.e. the navayats, the mappillas, the labbes are of Arab descent. Arabic is even taught as a second language in Kerala. The conversion of the population of Malaysia and Indonesia to Islam was due largely to the efforts of these Indo-Arab traders. The madrasa at Ponani in Kerala was a centre for missionary activity from at least the 10th century A.D. but the indo-Arabic communities today speak Tamil, Malayalam, Konkani or whatever at home and do not call themselves Arab as the Sri Lankans do. Why then should the Tamil Muslims of Sri Lanka be more Arab than our Indo-Arab communities. It makes no sense and is based on a stupid sort of race pride. Shama Zaidi, Mumbai, 24 February 2009 "....Who are the Sri Lankan Muslims? Are they Tamil converts or had they arrived in the island from far. Why do they mistrust the Tamils – especially Jaffna Tamils? This article attempts to answer some of these questions..." -- Shan Ranjit 1 Comments More.. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1209 Islam and Spiritualism What do our inter-religious conflicts teach us? Discovering Patterns of Unity in diversity leads to Intellectual as well as Spiritual growth We squander a large part of our national energy, that could have been expended more fruitfully in pursuit of more worthwhile goals, in inter-religious conflicts. This is not a new development, not for India, not for the world at large. Humanity has been involved in conflicts of this nature since ancient times. But why do such conflicts take place at all, if religions, all religions, teach us to believe in the oneness of the universe, brotherhood of man and so on? This is perhaps because we have made our religions a part of our egos, indeed our negative egos. This is a tragedy. For all religions teach us to go beyond our egos. Try to kill your egos, or suppress them, but do transcend them -- is the universal religious message. It is time we in India, both Hindus and Muslims, try to understand our religions and follow them rather than just fight over one religion’s superiority over another. We Muslims, in particular, suffer from an unwarranted superiority complex that keeps us from coming to terms with other religious communities. -- SULTAN SHAHIN, Editor, New Age Islam More.. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1208 -- Syed M. Asadullah -- Syed M. Asadullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. Wanna subscribe to this group, send email to [email protected] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ *********************************************************** The Official Website of Group is LAUNCHED, http://www.geocities.co -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
