Sickened by the Sanctioned Murder of 100,000 Iraqi People

I keep reading in the news that United States President George W. Bush maintains his claim that the removal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from office was sufficient justification for the American military attack on Iraq. I feel extremely upset over this issue so I will try to make my response brief. Even as I [...]

Parenting Tip #2: Don’t punish your children very often or very harshly!

Punishment is always harmful to the child even if it seems to achieve the parent’s goal. It is impossible to punish your child without harming him/her. Research studies in child development have consistently shown that among the undesirable side effects of punishment are:

The child will try to escape from or retaliate (fight) against the punishing [...]

Aphorism: The Will of Allah

Many believe that everything which happens is the Will of Allah – that is of course true, but we should not think all that is the Will of Allah is what Allah would 'want' to have happen. Allah has imbued all physical matter with some degree of free-will, that portion being allotted in varying amounts [...]

Aphorism: Matter and free-will

Matter at every level of complexity has certain orderly rules it must follow. Within the parameters of that order there is allowed an expression of free-will. That is the 'choice' within the 'necessity'. The free-will aspect is perhaps described by 'chaos theory' and at its most basic level is governed by quantum uncertainty.

Why Everyone Must Become Muslim

When Allah creates the human being to be His Khalifah on Earth Allah gives to the human being the responsibility to ensure the continued successful completion of His Grand Cosmic Plan. This responsibility as Allah’s Khalifah is no small matter since it ultimately includes all of Allah’s physical creation in its progression toward spiritual perfection, [...]

Parenting Tip #1: Try to notice as many good things your children do as possible!!!

As soon as possible after your child does something good comment on that thing (be specific as to what the good thing was), and give your child praise for having done that good thing. Example – Your young daughter falls, hurts her knee, and begins crying. Your son seeing this goes over to his [...]

Starting wars to end violence has got to be one of the great insanities of human society

Said a Benjamin Netanyahu supporter, “We need a prime minister who will start a war to put an end to the Palestinians’ violence.”

The Caliph Does Not Yet Condemn a Nuclear Iran

The controversy over Iran’s nuclear activities has caused me quite a dilemma. I have for much of my life been just about as anti-nuclear as it is possible to be. My primary objection has been to the production and possession of nuclear weapons, but my objection carries over into nuclear power until it can be [...]

Solution to Jewish problem

Comment # 1 (Beverly Simonson)
There is something not right about the Jewish people of the world. I am an American university student but I don’t think we are supposed to hate Jews. Somehow Jewish people have got a lot of the most powerful countries in the world, but mainly America, to support them when they [...]

Aphorism: Human Free-will

“As subatomic particles organize into increasingly greater complexity there is a progressive manifestation of all characteristics. So as those more complex organizations of matter envolve, there is an increasing component which is linked to the non-material plane. At the human level, the brain being the most complex organization of matter to envolve on our planet, [...]