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Danny Burmawi’s Islam, Israel and the West: A Former Muslim’s Analysis
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islām’s 6 Doctrinal Truths Hidden in Plain Sight
By Khaled Salih “Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.” Bertrand Russell In the West, discussions about islām are often framed by simplified, reassuring narratives that emphasise peace, tolerance, and shared values. This version
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NYT and the Art of Blaming the Victims
By Khaled Salih Note: This article was first published by Guerre and Shalom. I urge you to subscribe to this valuable publishing house. On October 6th, 2025, just as the world marked the second anniversary of the October 7th terror attacks, Roger Cohen of The New York Times published a
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“I am Eli the survivor.” Eli Sharabi’s Hostage
By Khaled Salih Eli Sharabi’s Hostage is not merely a chronicle of captivity; it is a profound and harrowing cartography of the human spirit under absolute duress. Sharabi charts the unforgiving terrain of loss, terror, and dehumanisation, but also maps the intricate psychological structures he built to withstand the
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“I am Eli the survivor.” Eli Sharabi’s Hostage
By Khaled Salih Eli Sharabi’s Hostage is not merely a chronicle of captivity; it is a profound and harrowing cartography of the human spirit under absolute duress. Sharabi charts the unforgiving terrain of loss, terror, and dehumanisation, but also maps the intricate psychological structures he built to withstand the
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Israel’s Black Swan and the Jump to Antifragility
By Khaled Salih Redefined by Shock The Hamas-led attack on October 7th, 2023, represents a defining moment in Israeli history, a catastrophic failure of intelligence, military posture, and strategic imagination that challenges the nation’s core security doctrines. An event of such profound and unexpected scale, it must be
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Reconstructing beginnings of early islām, muḥmmad, and the qur’ān
By Khaled Salih Source: Inârah Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. —Lillian Hellman [Quoted by Neil Shubin] The study of Islamic origins has generated a wide range of historical-critical approaches, reflecting both the complexity of the sources and the contested nature of their interpretation.
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Shattering the pagan Mecca myth: Islam’s Christian context
By Khaled Salih For centuries, the story of Islam’s birth has been protected by a convenient framework: that Muhammad emerged in a pagan reservation, a desert wasteland of idol-worship in Mecca, untouched by the complexities of sophisticated Christian theology. This widely accepted framework, the dominant narrative (or SIN,
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Shattering the pagan Mecca myth: Islam’s Christian context
By Khaled Salih For centuries, the story of Islam’s birth has been protected by a convenient framework: that Muhammad emerged in a pagan reservation, a desert wasteland of idol-worship in Mecca, untouched by the complexities of sophisticated Christian theology. This widely accepted framework, the dominant narrative (or SIN,
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Kurdish Governance: The Philosophy of Error Correction
By Khaled Salih The greatest driver of human progress, whether in science, philosophy, or governance, has never been blind faith in tradition or rigid adherence to authority. It has been the relentless willingness to detect errors and the courage to correct them. Every breakthrough in knowledge, every reform in society,
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Kurdish Governance: The Philosophy of Error Correction
By Khaled Salih Introduction The greatest driver of human progress, whether in science, philosophy, or governance, has never been blind faith in tradition or rigid adherence to authority. It has been the relentless willingness to detect errors and the courage to correct them. Every breakthrough in knowledge, every reform in
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Netanyahu’s Aikido move against Tamim as a case study in reframing an assault
By Khaled Salih Tamim and Netanyahu at the UNGA The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) remains arguably the most famous diplomatic stage where the rhetoric deployed by world leaders often transcends mere policy outlines and becomes sophisticated strategic theatre. The highly anticipated addresses by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani