Skip to content
Header Image

islamicate

islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

  • Home
  • 2008
  • March
  • 24
  • Gardens and Afghanistan [Updated][2x]

Gardens and Afghanistan [Updated][2x]

March 24, 2008 islamoyankee

Does a war-torn country need a garden?

[update]: Sectarian bias is a blight on a rare Afghan good news story

[update]: Afghanistan’s fight for it’s cultural heritage

Afghanistan

Post navigation

Synagogue in Afghanistan
A Quote from Rushdie

Related Posts

Free Meds for Katrina Survivors

Spread the word. Pfizer does good. Technorati Tags: Katrina

Penis Slicing and Cheney is more Taliban than the Taliban – #torture

Andrew Sullivan brings us two torture related stories today. One pulls on reporting by Glenn Greenwald, in which we find out Binyam Mohamed had his genitals sliced open as torture. If, for some reason, that image doesn’t nauseate you, imagine his name was Benjamin Moses (it is the Hebrew equivalent) and he was in Taliban custody. We surely would be up in arms. Speaking of the Taliban, Andrew also tells us that the Taliban treat their prisoners better than Vice-President Cheney did.

Islamic ‘Adl in Orakzai

Glad to see I have a role model in becoming a sardonic old man. It’s not justice or shari’ah, it’s extortion. What surprises me, however, is that none of the maulanas and muftis made an issue of the exact amount of money when so many avenues of argumentation were open to them. Was the amount extorted from the Sikhs right according to all the major schools of Islamic jurisprudence? Wasn’t it less? Wasn’t it more? Shouldn’t the amount be equivalent to the value of a certain weight in gold? And what about the requirement, according to many jurists, that the…

Persistence

  • Commemoration
  • Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
  • Jews, Muslims, and Orthodoxy
  • My God Hates More than Your God
  • On Being a Conservative-Liberal Muslim
  • The Discussion I Want to Have
  • The New Mecca
  • What is Shi'ism?

Archives

Categories

Copyright © 2025 islamicate | Slick Blog by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.