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Browsing Around an Arabic Bookshop

Have you ever wondered what does the name of the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram actually means? It literally means: books (boko) are forbidden (haram), in other words: all un-Islamic...

Obama’s Two Faces of Islam

By Bill Siegel In the midst of recent horrific acts of terror, from burning the Jordanian pilot to storming the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a Danish café holding a free...

Notes from a Defeat Jihad Summit

by: Diana West Earlier this week, I participated in the Center for Security Policy’s Defeat Jihad Summit. I find that the several hours of speeches and discussion have distilled into some salient...

What is truth?

Mr Ali Sina, Thank You This is the word in my mind since last 3 months. I should have said it before but never gathered courage to say it. All...

Sura Like It

Introductory Notes Growing up in a Muslim country, one is more likely than not to hear Muslims talk about how miraculous the Qur’an is. Its Arabic language is just “amazing”...

I am lost, please help!

I am from Indian subcontinent, and i was a moderate non practicing Muslim till i encountered your website faithfreedom.org, and reading some of your articles i have disheartened from Islam,...

The Dilemma of Islamic Terrorism

The recent massacres in Paris of the staff of Charlie Hebdo and the Jews in a kosher supermarket and the increasing incidences of butchering young people coming out of pubs...

Jihad by Civilian

 Things are not so Simple for Pharaoh and the Jews Prof. Phyllis Chesler Jihad has rapidly taken a new and ominous shape. In the past, bombs were exploded—either human homicide...

Hollywood: it’s showtime

By Bill Siegel During this week’s Golden Globes ceremony, Hollywood made numerous gestures in support of our freedom of expression. Referencing the computer hack of Sony Pictures in response to...

The “Perfection” of Mohammed

By Howard Kainz The recent developments in Paris are indeed sad. The satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, went to extremes, as satire often does, in criticizing Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other...

Why is there suffering

Abid, a reader from alisina.org asked, “Why God couldn’t make it such a way that we grow strength without generating so much pain in body and muscles? In the same...

Ten ways the Mafia and Islam are similar

During a debate on HBO’s Real Time last October, host Bill Maher declared that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if...