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Lessons

Do not be rude in speech (3:159) Restrain your anger (3:134) Be good to others (4:36) Do not be arrogant (7:13) Forgive others for their mistakes (7:199) Speak to people mildly (20:44) Lower your voice (31:19) Do not ridicule others (49:11) Be dutiful to parents(17:23) Write down what you owe in debt (2:282) Do not …

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Avert your eyes

Is this progress? That I’ve begun to resist the urge to challenge every unfounded claim, every piece of propaganda and the pseudo-scientific nonsense that passes before my eyes on my news feed each day? Yes, even when a friend could do themselves serious harm were they to follow the advice given in the article they …

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Radicals

The message that the government and media have been sending out for a few years now is that it is a crime to be concerned about injustices in the world. And sure enough, many of us have become passive and acquiescent, terrified that we will be labeled radicals or worse. Forgetting, of course, that most …

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Muslamic marketting

AS SAM’UALL’LIKEHIM! Do you want a Lamborghini to sit on like a kind of extremely rich man’s deck chair? If yes, download my FREE GUIDE on marketting to Muslamics! Learn how to rock a sunnah beard while cruising in your Bentley. Understand the importance of the random use of apostrophes when reaching out to the …

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Dunyalicious

As salamiualleycome… Are you interested in getting all the trappings of serious dunya? Expensive sports cars, hideous mansions, glitter, pomp and all the adornments of worldly life? You are? Then you need to attend our dunya mastermind training today and we’ll show you how i’ns’hAllah! (bring a friend and we’ll give you an extra apostrophe …

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Timewarp

Oh dear, the Christmas Party has been cancelled. And we’re all to blame for not getting into the Christmas spirit in September and making up our minds. What a miserable team! Off to the gallows.

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Lateness

Oh dear, they’re running on Muslim time. Note, not “Islamic time” because that would imply punctuality, respect, good manners. Nope, but these modern sunnahs of Muslims, where you arrive an hour and a half after you said you would, because you don’t value your friends’ needs or wishes.

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Buttons

Our lad says: “What is your job anyway? All you do is press buttons all day.” He’s right.

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Spurious chains

Would you believe that in 2016, with so many means to verify the facts, people are still spreading spurious messages about E-numbers and western industrial conspiracies to smother everyone in pig fat, attributed to a Pakistani Doctor nobody is sure really exists, on behalf of a medical organisation nobody is sure really exists? It would …

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Halalification

Dear Grumpy, I note your concern about the minoritification of the British food industry by supine executives pandering to the whim of consumers, oblivious as they are to the threat songs about baked beans pose to our very survival in the apocalyptic clash of civilisation which consumes us daily. Now is not the time to …

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Now

The temptation of those traveling the spiritual path is to yearn for and struggle to recreate those visions of the romantic past. The real challenge is to be a man of your time.

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Pious graffiti 

Why do people feel compelled to scribble out the photo of the woman on the health and safety notice in the mosque? The last one had her covered in black permanent marker. Now she’s wearing a red Biro niqab. Surely it’s time to put a beard, handlebar moustache, monocle and top hat on the gentleman …

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Propaganda

From my earliest days as a Muslim, my companions and mentors always steered me away from groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir and Al-Muhajiroun. I am perplexed, therefore, that today so many seem to hang upon every word of HT-inspired media outlets and advocacy groups. Either they are genuinely unaware of the background of these loose organisations …

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Review

I must go out and buy that book our activists are telling us not to read.

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Ripples

You’ve surely noticed this pattern too. A terrorist atrocity occurs. We condemn it. There is a counter-reaction which targets people who had nothing to do with the terrorist atrocity. We condemn that too. There is a further counter-reaction which posits that those who condemn the unrelated reaction have sympathy or support the initial act of …

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