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New Age: A Bridge to Islam?

                                Question:   I have read about Islam for about a year now, and I have a question about metaphysics. I was always interested in New Age subjects, spirits, ghosts, tarot, etc... I am carefully…
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Any Friendship Between Muslims and Other Groups?

Question:     *{O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them for friendship is of them.}* (Al-Ma’idah 5:51)This friendship makes any Muslim an enemy of their…
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Is Islam Anti-Semitic?

Question: Is Islam anti-Semitic? I don't mean it as an insult or offense to Muslims. In fact, I'm intrigued about Islam and I'm trying to deepen my knowledge of it. I'm reading the Qu'ran and the hadiths and sincerely I find most of their teachings very beautiful.
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Classification of Islamic Trends

Current media coverage studies on Islam and Muslim societies and communities, especially on what is called 'political Islam' or 'Islamists', typically mention these terms: fundamentalist, strict, radical, moderate, progressive, and so on. These media reports draw from a large number of contemporary studies that offer 'typologies of Islamic ideologies.'
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Islam and Rationalism

Question: Let me just say that despite being born into a Muslim family and nurtured in a Muslim country, I have not been able to gather sufficient knowledge about Islam to be confident and sure about my faith.Let me also say that knowledge of Islam (including books) is a very…
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Praying by a ‘Non-Muslim’

Question: I am originally Christian and for the last year I have been discovering Islam. I have now stopped going to church and praying according to the Christian tradition because I gradually became unconvinced of the key Christian teachings about Jesus.
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