Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Why do Muslims Pray Five Times a Day?

Why do Muslims Pray Five Times a Day?

The Catholic Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of St. T Vincent is reported (Trinidad Guardian, May 8th, 2004) to have entered into the Mt. St. Benedict (Catholic) Monastery in Trinidad for a spiritual retreat during which “ he would join the monks in praying five times a day”. There are many people in the Caribbean who have...

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Sunday, July 6, 2014

A Great Book on Islam

A Great Book on Islam

“As matters stand in the Muslim world today, it is the decline of religious leadership from the Islamic standard in a serious measure that constitutes a major cause of its inability with regard to its emergence from the abyss into which it has been descending since some time. The remedy for the situation is obvious.” - Fazlur Rahman...

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Qur'an, Secularism and Crime

The Qur'an, Secularism and Crime

Who decides what is right and what is wrong?  The society?  Religion?  The Government?  I  myself? And now we see a shift, in contemporary society, from principles of right and wrong to choices, decisions and risks, and therefore to subjective personal decisions, with little regard for wider consequences.  No longer is "man the measure of all things" -...

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The Qur'an, Crime and the Economy

The Qur'an, Crime and the Economy

Economic ghettos now spawn, to a very large extent, the present endless nightmare of gang and drug warfare, armed robbery, kidnapping, and wanton senseless murder. Those ghettos will dramatically increase when the US dollar collapses totally and the TT dollar faithfully follows its monetary Massa in that collapse. Inflation will increase dramatically, and so too will crime!   Is...

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Qur'an, crime and a philosophy of punishment

The Qur'an, crime and a philosophy of punishment

Those who proclaim 'God's Supremacy' in their Constitution ("Whereas the People of Trinidad and Tobago have affirmed that the Nation of Trinidad and Tobago is founded upon principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God .  .  ."), and then proceed to defy Him by rejecting His Law and by substituting in its place their own contrary law as...

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Monday, June 30, 2014

The Qur'an, the Family and Crime

The Qur'an, the Family and Crime

WHAT IS FAMILY?  The "Family" has been under a devastating, multi-pronged attack for many decades by the secularism-based prevailing culture.  "Family" used to be understood as the social unit based on the union of a male and a female, married to each other, and the offspring they beget or adopt (even if death of one of the partners,...

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