Nazim Baksh – journalist, writer, broadcaster, activist and advocate of Traditional Islam – has a new website and blog. Nazim is also a friend of mine and is one of the unsung heroes of the Traditional scene over the last 20 years. He is one of the key people behind the Deen Intensives and Rihlas that we have all come to know and love. Nazim offers a keen insight into many topics that concern Muslims today. The site is still…
From the Apple Movie Trailers’ website: The latest prize-winning documentary from Oscar-nominee Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid…
For some time I have been thinking about the name “Muhammad” and how in recent times it is often repeated and mentioned and remains the name amongst names. No other name evokes as much emotion and interest as the name “Muhammad”. In modern times the name “Muhammad” is not alien to Western ears and that is thanks largely, by Divine Providence, to the boxer Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali was the most famous man on the planet and still remains a…