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Month: October 2006

Sh AHM – The Pope was wrong (From Prospect Magazine)

Sh AHM – The Pope was wrong (From Prospect Magazine)

Issue 128 , November 2006 The Pope was wrong by Abdal Hakim Murad Pope Benedict’s recent comments on Islam were riddled with inaccuracies Abdal Hakim Murad is a lecturer in Islamic studies at Cambridge University It seems unlikely that the Pope, in his recent remarks, deliberately sought to injure the generally flourishing world of Muslim-Christian dialogue. Since Benedict?s speech in Regensburg on 12th September, Rome has issued no fewer that four apologetic statements, a sign, surely, that the offence taken…

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Sh Afifi al-Akiti Moonsighting Report

Sh Afifi al-Akiti Moonsighting Report

as-salamu ‘alaykum, This is the moonsighting report form Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti (MCW member) from Oxford, UK: Not Seen Negative sighting. We attempted the obligatory sighting at the end of the 29th day of Ramadan (Sunday, 22 October 2006), despite the new moon is not expected to be visible locally today. It is raining and the horizon is overcast, and hence there was no possible sighting anyway. We received the report from Fez, Morocco of negative…

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