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Interesting Reads

Interesting Reads simply are interesting reads.  They do not require responses in the same way as 'SaQ Alerts'.  If any member has an interesting read please email sultanalqalam@khuddam.org.uk and we shall attempt to add it to the next edition.

Weird science

New Statesman - London,England,UK 

According to some Muslim scholars, everything from genetics to robotics and space travel is described in the Quran.

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/quran-muslim-scientific

Israel's Quran project

New Statesman - London,England,UK 

Project supervisor, Dr. Ofer Grosbard, gives his response to the critics Is it possible that a Jew appreciates and respects the Holy Quran but still remains ...

http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2008/08/israel-quran-project-
ofer

As Pakistan comes full circle, a light is shone on Zia ul-Haq's death

The Times - UK 

The plane crash that killed President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan has spawned myriad conspiracy theories since his C-130 plunged into the Bahawalpur Desert with his top generals and the US Ambassador on board exactly 20 years ago tomorrow.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4543628.ece

Johann Hari: We need to stop being such cowards about Islam

The Independent - UK 

We need to acknowledge the double-standard – and that it will cost Muslims in the end. Insulating a religion from criticism – surrounding it with an electric fence called "respect" – keeps it stunted at its most infantile and fundamentalist stage.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-we-nee
d-to-stop-being-such-cowards-about-islam-894361.html

The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics, edited ...

Times Online - UK 

For some people today, the veil has become a symbol of terrorist tyranny. For many feminists, veiling is synonymous with the oppression of women A cartoon ...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fict
ion/article4484493.ece

Canada is celebrating the addition of its largest mosque built in ...

World Architecture News - London,UK 

Much of the $15m total construction cost was raised by donations from the city’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Ahmadiyya is a sect of Islam that was founded ...

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&u
pload_id=10211

"Indonesian Muslims urge Ahmadiyya sect disbanded"

WorldWide Religious News - http://www.wwrn.org  

Jakarta, Indonesia - Several hundred Indonesian Muslims rallied on Monday in Jakarta and Surabaya, urging the government to disband the Ahmadiyya sect which many followers of Islam consider heretical.

http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29134

Let Muslims choose their own committee

New Statesman - London,England,UK 

The government is to set up a board of Muslim theologians. Once established, it will steer the more radical elements of the Muslim community away from ...

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2008/08/muslim-government-british

Changing the face of Muslim family life

guardian.co.uk - UK 

Tonight, at the City Circle, the Muslim Institute will launch a radical marriage contract (pdf) it hopes will change the face of British Muslim family life. ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/08/religion.islam

The 'next Satanic Verses' shelved for fear of stirring up Islamic ...

Independent - London,England,UK 

The controversy only burst into the open this week when The Wall Street Journal published a column by the Muslim writer Asra Nomani, saying she was ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-next-satanic-vers
es-shelved-for-fear-of-stirring-up-islamic-extremists-889289.html