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Conspiracy or Interpretation?

Conspiracy or Interpretation?

How is it that a lie has been perpetuated in our religion which has been supported by generation after generation of ulama, experts and lay people, both male and female, with them either being complicit or unaware of it and then someone in the 21st century has suddenly discovered it to be a lie and declares it as such without any evidence or rationale? How is it that the alleged lie, has a scriptural basis in the Qur’an and a…

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Mary Beard On not knowing Arabic

Mary Beard On not knowing Arabic

Mary Beard On not knowing Arabic From the Times Literary Supplement Blog Site I can?t understand why people make such a fuss about not keeping New Year Resolutions. It?s always seemed to me that the whole point about them was precisely NOT to keep them. That is to say, broken resolutions are one of the ways we have for coming to terms with what we would like to do, but know that we never will. It?s a way of looking…

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