Category: Opinion
A Mosque in Chennai helps Students Crack IAS
Chennai: The Makkah Masjid on Chennai's busy Anna Salai road is like any other mosque as you approach it. But enter and walk up the stairs, and you fi [...]
Make Your Bakrid Environment-Friendly
Do not indulge in exhibitionism through bidding on sheep and goats for fancy rates and going for its publicity through the media.
By A Staff Writer [...]
The Fanatics of Islam
The awful terrorist attack in Kenya, against innocent civilians who just happened to be in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, first deserves the str [...]
Cancellation of Amina Wadud’s Lecture
Shutting the Scope for Debate
By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj
The University of Madras cancelled the lecture by American Islamic scholar Amina Wadud, perceiv [...]
Foundations for Muslim-Buddhist Interfaith Dialogue
Although Islam and Buddhism may be divided by complex theological questions,
inter-religious dialogue focused around morality, ethics and values can [...]
Contemporary Islamic Conscience in Crisis
Can the 1,000-year Muslim civilisation make an original contribution to the concert of cultures and civilizations?
By Tariq Ramadan
From Asia to No [...]
An Unfortunate Truth – Using Islam as a Convenient Facade
It is not Islam that is wrong, it is the Muslims who are damaging a religion because they stopped paying attention to their spiritual growth, basking [...]
Paths to Peace
Far from judging others, far from dogmatism, Muslims today must keep silent, must examine themselves. Superstition of the masses and the elitist attit [...]
Tipu University – A Needless Controversy
Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem
With a Union Minister announcing that the centre would start a separate university for the minorities at Tipu Sultan's capital, [...]
Modi’s Hat-Trick and Muslims
It is essential for Muslims to analyse the setback in Gujarat and decide policy options for the 2014 general elections.
In Gujarat we are often ques [...]