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Big Lies: Joys of Muslim Women

In recognition of the emerging fascist movement in America, we’ve decided to run a new series named to honour the “Big Lie” technique of Nazi propaganda perfected by Goebbels). Sh. Hamza Yusuf gave a worthy address to the US this Eid, saying that each of us has a part to play in educating people about who we are — Prof. Tariq Ramadan said much the same recently in discussing how important it is that we define ourselves rather than allow for others to define us. In this series we’ll combat the lies spread about our faith over the internet through circulating emails, inviting you to forward what we offer to respond and educate others.

*Please send us emails you find that are being circulated. We simply do not have the capacity to respond to websites, and are mostly concerned with correcting misrepresentations of Islamic jurisprudence spread via email.*

Inaccuracies of Joys of Muslim Women:

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Response to Robert Spencer Regarding Islam's View on Killing Children As Well As His Lie Upon Ibn Taymiyya

Robert Spencer is at it again. Yes, as you all know, manipulating texts to promote his islamophobic dogma or misinformation (if you would like to say “lies” as that may be more accurate). I have read several of his worthlessly inaccurate (as well as a waste of money) books and each time have been made to chuckle at his ignorance regarding Islamic scripture. As I was looking through sites that link Seekingilm.com, I happen to cross one of his articles that he so poorly wrote as of recent. Apparently he used a reference on Al-Khadir that Ibn Sa’ad prepared for Seekingilm.com. So I went to the ridiculously researched article that can be found here and decided to respond to two things that made me chuckle.

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