Blogging Perseverance
The emel team, particularly the feature’s editor, Somaiya Khan, have been wanting me to blog for a long time. I have always resisted, telling them, “life is busy enough.” But they persisted. And...
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Small Steps
taking small steps This is my transcript from today’s Wake up to Wogan show. What is your small deed that could help change your life? Leave a comment below the post....
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Whipping a woman for wearing trousers is an affront to Islam
The case of the Sudanese woman, Lubna Ahmed Hussein, who is being tried for wearing trousers has passed quietly. Just because it is not making headlines, does not make it right. I wrote a comment...
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From Issue 1 to 61
Issue 1 to 61 It is six years and 60 issues ago that we launched the first issue of emel. The creation of that first issue is imprinted onto my whole being and I can remember it like yesterday....
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Ten Tips to Show Our Love for Muhammad
ten tips to help you share your love of the Prophet and make the change. So I went and viewed the Facebook, “Everybody Draw Muhammad” page, and I admit that I cried. Then I sat stunned for the next 15...
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Hiroshima’s Ground Zero – Why Nuclear Weapons are Fundamentally Un-Islamic
August 6th – 65 years ago today a bomb codenamed “Little Boy” was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which had been spared conventional aerial bombardment so that it would be a “pristine...
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When Chelsea Clinton got married last weekend the event is estimated to have cost between $3-$5million. Chelsea’s Vera Wang dress alone came in at around $20,000. Such celebrity, high cost weddings are...
View ArticlePause for Thought on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show – The Pope arrives to the UK
Pause for Thought on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (Thursday 16th September 2010) – My transcript from the show The Pope is coming to town, and some people are not happy about it. There are protests...
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