Eid Mubarak and Diwali Mubarak to all our readers.
Qalandar has a couple (1, 2) of poems of religious meaning today.
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Muslims for Secular Democracy [updated]
Update: The original post has been recovered here. Comments on this post are now closed. This post was originally sent in by Ghostdog. However, TypePad managed to lose all our posts from yesterday, so I had to re-post, and it’s now tagged with me as the author. To be clear, I am not.
Ignorance and the Clash of Civilizations
It’s a good read, but nothing new. It’s written by a young’un, which is why I’m posting it.
So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? | The Jewish Chronicle
So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? | The Jewish Chronicle. Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity – also in Christendom – through the medieval period into the modern world.