Editor's Desk
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The other day I came across Sandy Thom’s ‘I wish I was a Punk Rocker with flowers in my hair’ and I was awfully amazed by the amount of nostalgia that had engulfed the song: ‘Ow I was born too late/ To a world which does not care’. That sweet world – When music really mattered and when radio was king/ When accountants didn’t have control/ And the media couldn’t buy your soul/ …When pop…
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Leaders
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Islam in Western mirror
Present-day images of Muslims and Islam in Western media vary considerably. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union the general drift of Western concerns has been to portray Islam…
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Absence of Intellectual Freedom an Impediment for Muslim Societies
Muslims, humbly acknowledge that all our intellectual and worldly possessions are by the grace of God. All that is unsavory within us springs from our baser instincts (Nafs). We are…
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Insight
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Reason And Faith In Islam
The Our’an is believed by Muslims to be the Book revealed by Allah to the unschooled Prophet Muhammad as well as kept preserved in its original form for all times…
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On Muslim-Christian Dialogue After 9/11: A View from Canada
I. Introduction: As some of the readers of FutureIslam will know, I have been engaged in the study of what I call “the dialogue of religions” or “the encounter and…
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TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN ISLAM
Every religion today is going through the struggle for change. When new challenges arise some try to reinforce tradition while others strive for change. This struggle goes on. Islam is…
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Muslim Non-Muslim Relations In The Islamic Perspective
In the new world order everything remotely reflecting Islam or Muslims is being targeted, ridiculed, criticized and condemned. The so called enlightened West and secularists have joined this band wagon…
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Transforming World Bank, IMF and WTO
The Context Anti-Globalization Protest Defines Our Times As Much As There Are Endeavors For Globalization Of The Movement Of Capital And Technologies, Labour And Services, Consumption And Production Patterns. Globalization…
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