Sunday, May 19, 2013

Egyptians Increasingly Glum


Egyptians Increasingly Glum

Egyptians clearly want their legal and political systems to be shaped by Islam. Most say laws should strictly adhere to the Quran, and a majority of Egyptians think religious leaders should have at least some influence in political matters. On the question of religious freedom, however, the public is divided over whether the government is doing enough to protect the rights of religious minorities, such as Coptic Christians. When asked how closely the legal code in their country should follow the teachings of the Quran, about six-in-ten Egyptians (58%) answer that the laws should strictly follow Islam's holy book, while roughly three-in-ten (28%) say the laws should follow the values and principles of Islam but not adhere precisely to the Quran. Only 11% of Egyptians think their country's laws should not be influenced by the teachings of the Quran. [e]

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Islam & ScienceMiscellaneous

Famous Scientists Who Believed in God

Nicholas Copernicus Francis Bacon Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei Rene Descartes Blaise Pascal Isaac Newton Robert Boyle Michael Faraday Gregor Mendel William Kelvin Max Planck Albert Einstein Is belief in the existence of God irrational? These days, many famous scientists are also strong proponents of atheism. However, in the past, and even today, many scientists believe that God exists and is responsible for what we see in nature. This is a small sampling of scientists who contributed to the development of modern science while believing in God. Although many people believe in a "God of the gaps", these scientists, and still others alive today, believe because of the evidence.


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Extract from Book: Jihad or Ijtihad by Irfan Habib

It is difficult to find an Islamic scholar who will not vouch for Islam's seminal contribution to science and yet reiterate that Islam is not in conflict with science. They invariably hark back to the early centuries of Islam to establish the veracity of their claims and flaunt names from Islam's history of science such as Al-Khawarizmi, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, al-Razi and Omar Khayyam. No one can dispute the fact that these Scholars, along with several others, significantly contributed to scientific creativity in Islamic civilization and should be credited with helping the flowering of modern science in the West. It was through the Arab philosophers and scientists that the rich patrimony of Greek learning reached the leading lights of modern rationalism. The father of modern scientific research, Roger Bacon, was a disciple of the Arabs. By virtue of patronage at the highest level during the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad, the foundations

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Asadullah Syed

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