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After years (decades?) of being an urban …

shahed — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:27:07 +0000

After years (decades?) of being an urban legend, it’s finally true. Michael Jackson has apparently converted to Islam, in the presence of Dawud Wharsnby, Yusuf Islam, and Idris Phillips.

Yahya Birt, in a recent article for Emel …

thabet — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:28:26 +0000

Yahya Birt, in a recent article for Emel magazine, argues that “[c]onverts to Islam must be deconstructed as moral persons to make safe the boundary around liberalism (and indeed Islam), marked by words of rejection and acts of violence, such is the dangerous ambiguity of free choice, of acceptance and betrayal, that the convert represents.”