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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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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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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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By Khaled Salih Possibly Sergey Nechayev & Ghazi Hamad on CNN. “I am perplexed by my own data and my conclusion is a direct contradiction of the original idea with which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I arrive at unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that there can be
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By Khaled Salih Apologies for re-posting this article. This is an updated version of an earlier text witt a new title. This version conveys the message better than the previous version. Apologies. Tamim and Netanyahu at the UNGA The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) remains arguably the most famous
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From Britain’s cosmopolitan rise to Its fractured decline
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Five Hidden Forces That Shaped the British Mind
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God’s Elect Nation Betrays God’s Chosen People
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By Khaled Salih “There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche On the morning of October 7, 2023, our world ended and kept ending. We buried parents without children and children without parents. We searched the fields and the safe rooms and the phone videos for faces we loved. Some
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One Jewish state, too many!
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How language masks power and predation
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By Khaled Salih “You must change your mind, not the sky: though you may cross the sea, though you may flee to the ends of the earth, your troubles follow you.” — Seneca, Letters, 28.1 Rizgar Reza Chochani’s monumental two-volume work, Fragmentation and unity: A history full of