In the Wake of Killings in France, Some Questions to Fellow Muslims

 By Arshad Alam, New Age Islam31 October 2020A faith system, which has given succour to millions in the last 1400 years, is today held hostage by a set of cartoons. In the wake of beheadings and murders in the name of Islam, several Muslim opinions, both in the social media and in the form of popular articles, have raised more questions than they have answered. Some of these opinions are clearly conservative voices, but others see themselves as moderates and liberals, and yet there is a disturbing similarity in their articulation. It is high time that we, as Muslims, ask some questions about our religion. This article, in teasing out certain common refrains across Muslim articulations, is a small attempt in that direction.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also...

Muslims In Europe Should Reshape Their Approach Towards The People Of The Book

 New Age Islam Special Correspondent30 October 2020Tomasz Borysiuk |  During a far-right demonstration in Warsaw, on 11 November 2017.-----The killing of a French Christian history teacher by a Chechen Muslim youth for showing blasphemous cartoons to his class has re-ignited the debate over growing militant Islamism and Islamophobia and has provided the French government with the justification to impose curbs and crack down on immigrant Muslims and their religious organisations.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also Read:  Blasphemy, Islam and Free Speech------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To make matters worse,...

Discrediting The Prophet May Seem Freeing Oneself From Engaging His Followers In Serious Theological Or Rational Discourses

 By Hafiz Saif Al-Rawahy, New Age Islam29 October 2020Last week the world witnessed an attack on Islam and denigration of its Prophet in France, under the pretext of “freedom of speech.” This is despite the fact there is no absolute freedom of speech protected by law anywhere in the world. In France, there might be some things that cannot be said in the public space without getting into trouble with the law. However, vilification of the Prophet of Islam is not something new in the European elites’ mind-set. There is a long history of hostility toward Muslims and their faith, and indeed, much of that hostility has always been directed at their Prophet.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also...