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Reverting To Islam And Extremism: How To Know Which Is Which?

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In the name of Allah, the Merciful to all, the Compassionate

I came across a bit of news today about Public Safety Canada awarding a $170K grant to Australian academic Scott Flower. The title of the article was kind of misleading, as it claims Prof. Flower was tasked with discovering why Canadians are choosing Islam. But the official title of the project says the task was how to find people prone to extremism among reverts. Here is the brief of that project:

Towards understanding the extremely rare: distinguishing ordinary processes of religious conversion from violent extremism (Dr. Scott Flower)

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Islamic Jew-Hatred: Fact or Fiction?

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In the name of Allah, the Merciful to all, the Compassionate

A story broke out a few days ago about Bus ads linking “Islamic Jew-hatred” with Adolf Hitler, rolling through the streets of Washington, DC.

The text on the ad reads: “Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries,”

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Muslim Pundits’ Views about Creation

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I recently watched a few video clips about some evidence that humans were roaming planet earth for millions of years. In a documentary named “Origin of Man” it shows some human footprints beside dinosaur footprint dated around 100 million years ago. The other one shows a footprint more than one meter long, dated at least 200 million years ago. That’s why I decided to write this article, and show what some Muslim scholars think about Origin of Man.

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