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When Europe Loved Islam

Foreign Policy   Archive.org From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly serves…

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‘As If’ Reasoning: Using Maqasid al-Sharia Inappropriately, As If Islamic Civilization was the force that gave religious law tyrannical power

By: Reem Elghonimi | Date: October 20, 2025 | Truehuman.substack.com In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful I remember the scene from the film The English Patient in which a North African/Arab nurse enters a German interrogation room. The prisoner of war is an American man. First, the officers acknowledge the torture they are performing violates the Geneva…

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