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Easter in the Qur’an: Jesus AS was raised to Heaven and will return
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Aziz Poonawalla
Happy Easter to my Christian friends! Fundamentally, Easter is the day that Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ. As I’ve noted before, in Islam there is no direct analogue to Easter, but there are some very important points of agreement. The Qur’an specifically discusses the crucifixion of Jesus AS in a few verses, 4:157-9: And…
Iraq War retrospective: not convinced by Colin Powell at the UN #iraq10
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Aziz Poonawalla
On Feb 5th 2003, Colin Powell gave a speech at the United Nations that supposedly laid out the case for WMD in Iraq and the argument for invasion. After the war began and WMDs were not found, this speech destroyed his credibility and Powell’s political aspirations were rightly dead afterwards. Here is the skeptical post…
Iraq War retrospective: How does attacking Iraq solve the problem of terrorism? #iraq10
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Aziz Poonawalla
The following post was written in late October 2002, after my earlier post about the Bali bombings, where I was still trying to work out just how the Iraq War would be related to terrorism. As the post makes clear, the connection did not exist, leaving really only the issue of WMD threat as a…
one liberal’s case for war and subsequent repudiation #iraq10
By
Aziz Poonawalla
This is a guest post by Thomas Nephew. I began realizing how wrong I was the day of the invasion. One of my main reasons for supporting the war — after initial skepticism — was Iraq’s alleged stockpiles of chemical, biological, perhaps even nuclear “weapons of mass destruction” in the hands of a ruthless dictator…
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