Gatekeepers of orthodoxy: if you are striving to preserve life and create a safe world for all, I am with you. If not, then it’s not the way.
The apparition of scholarship is collapsing. Compare the learning of those parroting what they learned from men before them to those targeting disease-specific antigens with mRNA molecules, leveraging the magnificent power of the human immune system. Signs on the horizons and within yourselves. For quite some time now, a friend in my circles has been …
Turns out, “We’re British, we’re special, we can go it alone,” doesn’t hold much water with the rest of the world. Ah, but this is what happens when turkeys vote for Christmas.
Never over-estimate your own importance. I once resigned from a job to protest the unfair treatment of my wife by an organisation we both worked for at the time. I thought I was taking a principled stand. The organisation just shrugged its shoulders and said, “Bye!”
Religion and conspiracy theories: lucrative business opportunities for the astute salesman.
Death is touching every household, but still the dissenters declare: “It’s a hoax!” Even as we bury our dead, they reiterate: “It is all overblown; much ado about nothing.” Until it touches them — and guilt haunts them — they will continue in kind. They have thoroughly imbibed every scrap of misinformation, received and forwarded …
A failure of education? A failure of science? A failure of empathy, and the ability to understand what you yourself do not directly perceive? The age of ignorance, where ignorance is considered a legitimate choice, celebrated with pride, shunning expertise and authority, in favour of alt-knowledge, alt-wisdom. Though nearly every family we personally know has …
If you feel the need to condemn me and write off everything that I believe because I have taken to listening to folk songwriters over recent years — but find yourself silent in the face of the abusive serial adulterer, or accommodating to men who cut down and slaughter innocents — my reflections probably aren’t …
In the Swahili language, the word “dawa” means medicine, treatment, remedy. Some of us may have thought that it has a similar meaning in the Arabic language. However, as popularised by English-speaking activists, it seems to have taken on the complete opposite meaning. It has instead become like poison, killing everything. It has grown into …
Amusing that outrage about popular MuslimPro app allegedly partnering with data firm allegedly selling data to US Military is being expressed on Facebook and Twitter, two open, non-anonymised social media platforms vastly more problematic from a privacy perspective. Cambridge Analytica anyone?
Young man! Do you even know who your handlers are? These unknown others who incite you online, from behind alias account on obscure platforms, chattering away to encourage the ignorant to act on their ignorance? For sure, they are not proponents of your religion, for what they call to is not of your tradition at …
Attacking worshipers in their places of worship is haram — utterly forbidden. Those that do this are devils, committing mischief in the land. It is hirabah — banditry, piracy — waging war against God. “Permission to fight has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, God is competent to …
Terrorism — the act of randomly targeting civilians with violence — is nothing but a tool of imperialism. It only serves to provide states with justification to invade and occupy far-off lands. It is of no benefit to the common man, at home or abroad. Indeed, the only real beneficiaries are arms manufacturers and the …
A growing chorus of voices chant: “The pandemic is a hoax!” Parents of other children stop us to say: “I don’t believe in any of this. It’s all a plot to control the sheep-like masses.” And yet we know a dozen people in our circles personally, who have been cut down by the dreaded virus, …
