It's commonly perceived that time is a great healer of emotional pain. If we take this claim at face value, it would imply that the mere extension of sequenced events carries with it some intrinsic medicinal or healing value, which appropriates itself to remedy feelings of emotional pain. If time...

What Freedom Are We Calling For? Part 4/5

It's not clear how many advertisements we are exposed to every day. Taking into account the average hours of TV viewing, radio listening, newspapers/magazine reading, internet surfing, public street and transport use; common estimates range from around 250 per day on the...

A controversial title, no doubt, but certainly not intended to arouse your momentary attention. It comes from a genuine concern regarding a phenomenon so central to our lives - romantic love. Specifically, the passionate, companionship-based love between two people; the kind of love that that we assume was the force...

What Freedom Are We Calling for? Part 2/5

In part 1, I discussed the concept of freedom with regards to the banking system and argued that its principles of lending lead to an unjust dynamic between citizens and banks, mirroring a master-slave relationship. Here, I intend to show...

There is a call for 'freedom' in the Middle East, both from citizens within its troubled borders, and from our own Western supporters of democracy overseas. This is, of course, with good intention. However, the call seems remarkably simplistic. There is a formulaic image being created of Arab heroes rushing...

Not a great deal of information can be found in the life of the Prophet or in the Qur'an regarding the issue of disability. But like many other issues with the Islamic tradition, a lot can be drawn from a single prophetic example. With this I have in mind the...

Saudi Arabia gets a lot of stick from Muslims in general. Whether religious, social, or economic, one is never hard pressed to find criticisms from believers facing the Meccan direction. And although many criticisms have justified grounds, on the following issue, I would like to stand in Saudi's defence.

It...

Before arriving in Egypt I was expecting to come to a country that carried the air of revolution in its atmosphere. I was anticipating the sight of young Egyptian men swarming the streets with their chests puffed out as if wearing Superman capes on their backs, along side Egyptian women,...