The Dreaming of the Bones by W. B. Yeats provides some unexpected insights into the current crisis in Libya. Yeats’s work might seem an unlikely place to discover a clue to a part of the current Libyan crisis. Yet it was just in such an unanticipated way that I came upon the route to something …
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The Muslim: not blinded by science – Abdassamad Clarke
Although we were much cheered by one recent author’s brave moral call for an end to science (Understanding the Present, Bryan Appleyard) and even more so by another’s assertion that it has already ended (The End of Science, John Horgan), there still remain some matters to attend to and pertinent reasons as to why there …
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The People of Prophetic Guidance and Europe – Abdassamad Clarke
Based on the notes for a talk delivered in Edinburgh at the ISLAM IN EUROPE CONFERENCE 2005 on Sunday 27th March 2005, this article contains both less and more than that talk, concluding slightly differently. On my way here, because of various crises and minor dramas I had to call on an old friend to …
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The Einstein Case: determinism’s rearguard action – Abdassamad Clarke
If we regard Thales as the man who was so enamoured of the heavens that he fell down a well which he hadn’t noticed, then we might depict Einstein as the man who so enthralled others with the picture he painted of the cosmos that they didn’t even notice they themselves had already fallen down …
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The Year of the Elephant – Abdassamad Clarke
“Do you not see what your Lord did with the Companions of the Elephant? Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing, unleashing upon them flock after flock of birds, bombarding them with stones of hard-baked clay, making them like stripped wheat-stalks eaten bare?” Even the weather is out of sorts: one day hot …
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“A World Out of Control” – Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison and Abdassamad Clarke
“And the incorruptible Professor walked, too, averting his eyes from the odious multitude of mankind. He had no future. He disdained it. He was a force. His thoughts caressed the images of ruin and destruction. He walked frail, insignificant, shabby, miserable and terrible in the simplicity of his idea calling madness and despair to the …
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Rijal – the narrators of hadith – by Abdassamad Clarke
Rijal – the narrators of hadith by Abdassamad Clarke The Froud Centre, London, Sunday 6/6/04 Introduction Almost the last piece of this talk to fall into place was its beginning. That came about when seeing that I had still a substantial part of this talk to prepare I started to read something totally unconnected: Fuzzy …
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JEREMIAH O’CALLAGHAN 1780 -1861 – Abdassamad Clarke
“Usury I put down, as the great pivot of all their (the Irish people’s) disasters – the main and primary spring that sets on motion the whole machinery of Ireland’s calamities.” IN OCTOBER 1819, a priest, summoned to the bedside of a dying parishioner in Ross Carberry, Cork, refused him the last Sacraments unless the …
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What happened in Egypt?
So what happened in Egypt? After the last Israeli war, and after the treaty with Israel, the army became redundant militarily and turned to business. Mubarak, as army officer and later president, also got into business. No bank or multinational corporation could do business in Egypt without an Egyptian partner or stakeholder, so that the …
David Cameron’s Munich Speech
The context of David Cameron’s speech is very illuminating: an on-going and worsening recession caused by greedy bankers whose system is based on rapacious usury. This is causing banks, companies and countries to default and bankrupt. In turn the resultant pressure has millions marching on the streets in protest in Athens, Dublin, Paris, Tunis and …