By Amanda Erickson In 1929, Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin laid out his vision for Central Asia: "teaching the people of the Kirgiz Steppe, the small Uzbek cotton grower, and the Turkmenian gardener the ideals of the Leningrad worker." It was a tall order, especially when it came to religion. Continue Reading
THE ERASURE OF ISLAM FROM THE POETRY OF RUMI
By Rozina Ali A couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a collection of poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Continue Reading
Turkey coup: What is Gulen movement and what does it want?
BBC Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for last week's bloody attempted coup. Suspected Gulenists are now being purged in their thousands in a wave of arrests and sackings and Mr Erdogan has declared a state of emergency. But what do we know about the Continue Reading
Why I Left Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR7_YQ53lfI&app=desktop This is an excellent video, but due to the subject matter of how Muhammad and his companions treated the women of enemy combatants caution may be warranted for some viewers. Here is a short explanation of the content written by the author Continue Reading
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