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The Timbuktu Manuscripts: An Important Clarification

Llewelyn Morgan | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Timbuktu Manuscripts, Timbuktu, Mohamed Mathee, Mali, Shamil Jeppie, Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, Mo Ansar, Tombouctou, Tom Holland, Mohammed Ansar, UK Universities & Education News
Llewelyn Morgan

There were suggestions that as many as 25,000 manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu had been burned, and even that the building itself had been torched. When the dust cleared the damage, though serious, turned out not to be as dire as feared.

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Absolutism, Not Islam, Is The Problem

Liam McLaughlin | Posted 12.11.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Absolutism, Religion, Islam, Chris Stevens, Power, Islam: The Untold Story, Tom Holland, UK Politics News
Liam McLaughlin

Whatever you may think of a film which insults the Prophet Mohammad, or Tom Holland's conjectures, they are to be countered by rational debate, not bigoted threats or actual violence.

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From Rushdie to Stevens: This Madness Must Stop

Dr Usama Hasan | Posted 12.11.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Christopher Stevens, Religion, Islam, UK News, UK Politics, US Embassy, Libya, Blasphemy, Tom Holland, UK Politics News
Dr Usama Hasan

A fundamental teaching in Islamic scripture is, "God says: My Mercy overcomes My Anger." Ultimately, our mercy, love and forgiveness must overcome our anger, hatred and bitterness. We must surely look forward to, and work towards, the day when the image of Islam is represented by merciful young men and women rather than angry young men.

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Channel 4 Receives 1,000 Complaints Over 'Reckless' Islam Documentary

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 14.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Religion, Islam, Channel 4, UK News, Mecca, Islamic History, Prophet Muhammad, UK Islam, UK Religion, Tom Holland, UK News

Thousands of viewers have complained to Channel 4 about a documentary on Islam, which suggested Mecca might not have been the real birthplace of the P...

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In the Shadow of Fiction: How Television Is Making (Up) Muslim History

Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: History, Islam, Muslims, Islam: The Untold Story, Arabs, In the Shadow of the Sword, Islamic Studies, Tom Holland, UK Documentaries, UK TV, Documentaries, UK Religion, UK Entertainment News
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Muhammed, Simon Holland concludes, probably never came from Mecca, but from Transjordania; the Qur'an and its teachings are largely borrowed from local religious traditions, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism; and it is questionable whether 'Islam' ever really existed...

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