Birth: 1958
The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation o….
There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousa….
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he wa….
We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear ….
When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they tal….
There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to….
In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of….
Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life ….
I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in the….
Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a ….
There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism..
If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia sho….
We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that t….
Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion..
Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived..
Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and oth….
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have….
One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particula….
Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Isla….
There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all ….
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tena….