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to dawah or not to dawah?
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The term Dawah (more correctly spelled Da’wah in transliteration from Arabic) means to prosletyze Islam. The term literally means “invitation”. There are different forms of da’wah, the main types being passive and active. Passive da’wah is the belief that living a life as a pious muslim will act as its own invitation to the faith…
What would McCain have done?
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Aziz Poonawalla
Larison makes a great point that bears repeating: let us recall that McCain supported cap-and-trade (even if he didn’t necessarily understand what he was talking about when he said so), proposed an insane mortgage bailout plan that pretty much everyone hated, backed TARP and differed from Obama on taxes largely in that he refused to…
fried twinkie
By
Aziz Poonawalla
I confess that I was defeated by this monstrosity, encountered at the Santa Cruz boardwalk in San Francisco.
Global warming is a muslim issue, too
By
Aziz Poonawalla
A new paper about relative humidity in the upper atmosphere is making the rounds of global-warming skeptic blogs. I’m not a climate scientist, but my own scientific training does give me the tools to at least read a paper’s abstract and conclusion with enough understanding of the author’s own claims (irrespective of the methods). I…
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