The Islamic Wills Trust services are here to help the Muslim community with detailed knowledge about Islamic Estate Planning. Our aim is to provide Muslims with the guidance and resources necessary to ensure that their wills are structured according to Sharia law and that everyone involved in the ...
According to the Islamic statement of witness, or shahada, “Thereis no god but Allah”. Muslims believe he created the world in six days and sent prophets such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, and lastly Muhammad, who called people to worship only him, rejecting idolatry and polyth...
While the Hindus and Muslims were vying with each other, the Christians landed at the port of Goa and set about converting Hindus to Christianity. They used force and persuasion for conversion of Hindus to Christian faith. The tender-hearted and kind missionaries like the fakirs made a deep im...
Except, of course, I always knew where to start. I mean when I was fourteen/fifteen and desperately shy (I put up a good front online and I have a persona at cons, but as much as it would shock most of you I was the classical introvert growing up and to an extent still am) I ...
This reminds me of something a lady from Fiji told me about Muslims in her country. She said that a firebrand from the Middle East came to whip up the hatred of the local Muslim community there—and said community told the firebrand off, that what he was saying was ridiculous, and he ...
There is an underlayment of barbarism to the culture, that I don’t know (quite) how to depict without making the people unsympathetic. The environment is hell on the very young and the very old, due to the cold equations of maintaining the lives of those who can’t contribute to their...
The Crystal Ball of Hong Kong by Bill Reader While I don't think that we should invade Hong Kong—not being a fan of land-wars in Asia, especially ones involving nuclear powers—I can certainly understand wanting to. Hong Kongers initially rose up in r
Iran, for example, thinks that its people have the right to not be assaulted by unIslamic advertising, photos, etc that would tend to create a barrier between believing Muslims and God. They legitimately view Western insistence on free speech as an assault on their human rights. Which is rea...
“Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette · 12h12 hours ago Thank you to Sarah Hoyt, for introducing me to “Chicom,” which was an ethnic slur I didn’t know.” And here is the screenshot, as apparently the tweet has gone down the memory hole, or at least some can’t find it (I do...
You, dear reader currently reading this, are almost certainly of miscegenated race (to use the good old, racially-loaded word of the 19th century.) And by that I mean that within the last two thousand years or so you have received blood from someone whom