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the State of the Ummah, 2014/1436
By
Aziz Poonawalla
I tuned into President Obama’s 2014 SOTU for a while last week – mainly because my daughter was tasked to watch 15min minimum for school, a limit to which she adhered to precisely – and was struck by how futile the speech seemed. It isn’t Obama’s fault any more than it was Bush’s fault during…
je ne suis pas Charlie #IamNotCharlie
By
Aziz Poonawalla
I fully support the right, and I also deeply appreciate the sentiment, of the cartoonist Luz, who is one of the survivors of the despicable attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that was attacked by Al Qaeda last week. Here is Luz’s (translated) statement in full: I invoked all the talents of…
Merry Milad and Happy New Year
By
Aziz Poonawalla
This year, Milad al Nabi is closer to the New Year than Christmas! By the Fatimid calendar, Milad (or Mawlid) is today, 3rd January 2015 – which fittingly also coincides with the perihelion of the Earth. However you reckon the date, this is the time of year where hundreds of millions of Muslims remember with…
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