This is the difference between the West and the Rest (BBC)

--How It All Began (BBC), Q&A (BBC), and The Letter (Times)
--Sura Al Baqarah 2:216 and Sura At Tawbah 9:24 [English Translations]
--Sura Al Baqarah (Wikipedia) and Sura At Tawbah (Wikipedia)
--Terrorism Act 2000 (Wikipedia), Terrorism Act 2000 (Wiki CrimeLine UK) and Section 57 (UK ( Read more... )

Ramadan Karim to all those who partake. Back in Oman this would mean no eating in public during the daytime. In my high school we wouldn't be allowed to eat outside during lunch breaks, but sometimes (often?) we'd finish class early. Those fasting would often leave the room and this would continue for a lunar month, at the end of which there would ( Read more... )

Letters to the Editor

Your analysis of the government of Turkey and Malaysia (Islam's Happy Faces, Jan 3) was interesting. Turkey may have a Muslim majority but, as you say, it is a nation where Islam has been tightly suppressed and controlled by the state for the last 70 years. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just started to correct the ( Read more... )