Shaykh Dr. Adbalqadir as-Sufi

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• State of Things 2013

  The bodies of five decapitated Yemenis hang above the main square of Jizan. Photo taken on Tuesday 21 May 2013. (Source: observers.france24.com)

• To whose lifeboat would you swim?

• The Post-Doctrinal Vatican

  The Catholic Church since its inception has functioned as an after-life. Crudely constructed of old Roman myths it claimed the birth of the Saviour as a winter festival, and his death and rising as a spring festival. The consumption of his flesh resulted in being ‘saved’ in the next world. The ancient Romans ate the flesh of the dead king to gain immortality as retold in Petronius’ Satyricon, which St. Paul could have read! The early Roman Church is really the elevation not of its saints but the metaphysical transformation of the Spartacus revolt against the Roman Empire by its enslaved masses. The crucifixion, symbol of the crushing of that uprising, became the symbol and myth of divine intervention. The crucified one rose from the dead – Spartacus reborn – enthroned in Rome. Of course we Muslims know that our lord ‘Issa was not crucified. In Rome it became the symbol that, .... Read the full article...

• Cyprus, Europe and Legitimacy by Parvez Asad Sheikh

  The crowds that gathered in hopeful protest outside the Cypriot Parliament on 30 April stood wavering in disbelief as they heard the news that their government had agreed to an economic subvention that will wipe away the myth upon which their country stands. The signboards fell slowly to their sides as the idea of their state-new and on the European frontier-was shattered. With it comes the end of the idea of the old representative ideal, the social contract was shattered and left strewn on the street along with the defeated debris of their protest.

  The 23 billion Euro bailout package provided by the Troika of the ECB, IMF and EU will leave the minute country in economic austerity and a sobering array of banking reconstruction and unemployment parallel to their Greek neighbour. For the first time in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis capital controls clamped down on the flow .... Read the full article...