A Cup of Tea with Muslims in Switzerland: When Minarets Became a National Issue

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By: Abna24 | Date: October 19, 2026 | En.abna24.com AhlulBayt News Agency: According to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, approximately 6% of the population covered by its religious statistics belonged to Muslim communities in 2024. Switzerland presents a distinctive case in the relationship between Islam and the state. While the country’s Federal Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, the 2009 referendum banning…

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Italy and Spain end border crisis sparked by Ceuta “invasion”

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Introduction: Israel is suspected of triggering the Ceuta “invasion” in order to punish Pedro Sanchez for opposing genocide and refusing to allow Spain’s facilities and airspace to be used in Israel’s war on Iran (fought in part through the Israeli-occupied, Epstein-blackmailed “US” government). Netanyahu hopes to regime-change Spain and install a Zionist-puppet racist government, as part of the larger effort…

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Scientist Rupert Sheldrake on the Power of Prayer

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Reviving All Souls Day … Should We Pray for Dinosaurs? Rupert Sheldrake talks with Marc Andrus, former Episcopal Bishop of California Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, September 2015. Marc Andrus: Rupert, thank you for this conversation. It’s always more than a delight to be in conversation with you. It supports life and supports me. I love it. We’re talking a little…

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American Muslim Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi Takes a Road Trip Across USA

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In March 2016, long before anyone thought Trump had a chance to win the presidency, Musa al-Gharbi and I predicted it on my podcast. (Write-up here.) Since then Musa got witch-hunted, sort of like I did in 2006, but he handled it more “professionally” (ahem) and still has an academic career. I’ve been following his work ever since. His latest…

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Saidia as Sophronia: The Government is Gone, but the Roller Coaster Remains

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The beach town of Saidia, Morocco, is made up of two half-cities. In one there is the great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the ATV-riders and motorcyclists emitting ear-splitting auditory mayhem, the summer exhibits and fairs and displays, the Marina district with its pampered yacht-owning golfers, the…

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The Islamic roots of the American Republic

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Many Muslims find Claire Khaw’s Secular Koranism congenial but unnecessary. After all, the Islamic way of life, complete with rules to live by a.k.a. legal principles and even some clear injunctions, is already based on the Qur’an, so why secularize it? But Khaw isn’t telling Muslims they ought to live by Qur’anic principles. We already know that. Her primary audience…

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October 7, 2023 Was Revelatory: And So Will Be Its Abiding Significance in History

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by Salim Mansur Auden’s lines, “Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return”, recall the oldest counsel of the wise elders – the shamans, oracles, avatars, priests. In Vedantic scripture Auden’s lines is akin to the meaning of “karma”, the moral principle of consequence of consequence. Or inversely, as Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount,…

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British Journalist Offers Qur’anic Values as a Response to the World’s Crises

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Video link RA’IYAT AL-FIKR via Pure Wilayah Substack In a powerful address at the 13th International Bediuzzaman Conference in Istanbul, held under the theme “Quranic Solutions to Global Crises,” prominent British journalist Lauren Booth called for a steadfast return to Quranic values to confront the moral, political, and technological crises gripping the modern world. Addressing the profound challenges of our…

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