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Pakistan train bombing kills more than 30 people, official says

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By Naseer Ahmed
| The News & Observer Verified
ISLAMABAD - More than 30 people died in a suicide bombing of a train in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said on Monday, in the latest attack claimed by separatist Balochistan militants. Two provincial officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to disclose the information, said on Monday the death toll had risen to more than 30. At least 24 people were initially reported as dead on Sunday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into the train.
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At least 24 killed in Pakistan train blast claimed by separatist militants

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By Naseer Ahmed
| Lexington Herald-Leader Verified
Railway staff work at the site, after a blast near a railway track in Quetta, Pakistan May 24, 2026. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants.
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Explosion in Ghotki kills three children and a woman

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By Naseer Ahmed
| AAJ News Verified
At least three children and a woman were killed on Wednesday when explosive material detonated in a house in the rural Ronti area of Ghotki, Sindh, police said. The incident occurred in the village of Saltushar, where Sindh police are conducting an ongoing operation against suspected militants. Initial reports indicate the explosives, kept inside a house, detonated unexpectedly. The victims’ families claimed that a possible drone activity by police may have triggered the blast during the operation.
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When Debate Becomes a Game

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 4 December 2025 How Psychological Games (Eric Berne) Explain Fifteen Years of Online Arguments For over fifteen years, Ghulam Mohiyuddin sahib (GM sb) and I have been engaged in a recurring cycle of exchanges on New Age Islam. What should have been an intellectual dialogue slowly revealed itself to be something far more primitive-and far more predictable: a series of psychological games masquerading as debate.
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What Muslims Need to Learn from the Kochi Hijab Incident

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 3 December 2025 The Kochi incident has generated more noise than clarity. The facts are simple, verifiable, and undisputed by any party until after the narrative was politically weaponised. Before drawing lessons, we must lay them out plainly. The Facts - Not the Stories Built Around Them 1. The school and the rules St. Rita's is a Christian-minority, co-ed CBSE school. The uniform for both boys and girls is standard: pants, shirt, and an overcoat.
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The Impossibility of Human Authorship in Declaring Muhammad the Seal of the Prophets

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 19 November 2025 There are several proofs of the divine origin of the Qur'an. These include the challenges the Qur'an itself poses to the deniers-challenges I have discussed elsewhere. In this article, I focus on a different and often overlooked proof: the Qur'an's declaration of Muhammad (PBUH) as the Seal of the Prophets, and why no human author could ever have dared to make such a claim.
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Why the Qur'an Is the Last Testament - The Immutable Human Blueprint and the Qur'an's Eternal Relevance

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 18 November 2025 Epigraph "The creation of Allah does not change - that is the upright Deen, but most people do not know." - Qur'an 30:30 If humanity's nature is fixed and universal, then the guidance revealed for that nature must also be final, universal, and future-proof. Introduction In my previous article, Why Revelation Does Not Need Revision, I demonstrated that revelation is not rendered obsolete by scientific progress or shifting cultural norms.
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Why The Qur'an Does Not Need Revision

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 17 November 2025 The Cognitive Revolution, Human Stasis, and the Qur'an's Immutable Alignment with Human Nature Introduction: A Modern Myth - "The 21st Century Needs a New Moral Code" It is fashionable today to declare that human beings, having entered the digital age, now require a new moral framework tailored to the complexities of modern life.
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The Prophetic Model for Indian Muslims

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 15 November 2025 Breaking the Cycle of Victimhood, Radicalisation, and Islamophobia Abstract This essay examines the contemporary predicament of Indian Muslims through the lens of the Prophetic Meccan model, arguing that the community's recurring pattern of grievance-amplification, confrontational behaviour, and reactive victimhood fuels Islamophobia and inadvertently promotes radicalisation.
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A Rejoinder to Adis Duderija's Article: The Concept of Wisdom in the Qur'an

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 14 November 2025 Adis, attempts to stretch Your article The Concept of Wisdom in the Qur'an Hikmah into an amorphous composite of "wisdom traditions," late-antique moral discourse, Syriac Christian influences, and pre-Islamic sapiential culture. It reads the Qur'an through an academic filter that treats revelation as a derivative text shaped by its environment. This approach misrepresents what Hikmah is in the Qur'an and misunderstands its relationship to Kitab.
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On Those Who Suffer from the Illusion of Knowledge

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 12 November 2025 Introduction The loudest crusaders against "the illusion of knowledge" on this forum are, ironically, the two most captive to it. Their accusations rest on zero evidence, zero method, and zero intellectual discipline. In doing so, they reveal precisely what they claim to expose in others. The two in question are Sumit Paul and Ghulam Mohiyuddin, and their failures are case studies in the psychology of projection. I.
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When Hermeneutics Eats the Facts: A Response to Ashrof's 'Kochi Hijab Incident'

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 8 November 2025 This essay concludes our analysis of the Kochi Hijab Incident controversy, summarising the discussion across six earlier articles and addressing the misleading narratives that have since emerged. I thank Ibn e Guffaw for tabling all the relevant facts in their proper chronological order, which leaves no room for doubt about what actually transpired. Some people interpret verses; others interpret events. V. A.
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Hermeneutics of Propaganda: The Art of Fact-Shifting and Narrative Engineering in Service of Ideology

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 1 December 2025 Ashrof's first article Kochi Hijab Incident: Pro-Zionist Global Depiction Under Fire (21 October 2025) stated: "The immediate events ... are largely uncontested. A 13-year-old Muslim student wore a hijab in contravention of the school's uniform policy... confrontation involving her father and a small group... described by school officials as 'provocative and threatening.' ...
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Response to Ashrof's Article: "When Greenfield and Other Polemicists Weaponise the Sacred"

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 5 November 2025 Ashrof's article, " ", claims to defend Islam from polemicists who weaponise scripture. Yet his own reading sustains the very distortions he claims to resist. Nowhere is this clearer than in his treatment-or rather, evasion-of Greenfield's Distortions: How Polemicists Weaponise Sacred Texts verse 8:59 from Surah Al-Anfal.
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Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 4 November 2025 Faith and the Necessity of Doubt Faith and doubt are opposites - yet inseparable companions on the journey to truth. Doubt is natural, even necessary. There can be no strong faith without first entertaining, wrestling with, and resolving one's doubts. Faith is not the absence of questioning; it is the calm that follows honest scrutiny. A belief untested by doubt is brittle. Running away from doubt, or glossing over it, weakens faith.
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How Did Muslims Treat Their Non-Muslim Subjects?

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 1 November 2025 Every discussion about the treatment of non-Muslims under Muslim rule tends to revolve around one subject - the Jizya, or the so-called "discriminatory" poll tax. It is the most frequently cited and gravest charge of inequality - and, conveniently, the easiest one to pick on.
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The Verdict of History: Islam, Christendom, and the Moral Record of Civilisation

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 30 October 2025 I. Introduction For centuries, polemicists have painted Islam as a faith spread by the sword and sustained by conquest. Raymond Ibrahim's recent revival of that myth - now echoed by those eager to prove themselves "reasonable" before Western approval - is only the latest retelling of an old falsehood.
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Ashrof's Missed Battlefront: When Rhetoric Replaces History

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 29 October 2025 Abstract V. A. Mohamad Ashrof's recent article, A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Raymond Ibrahim Thesis Of Religious War (New Age Islam, 28 Oct 2025), expends considerable effort in dismantling Ibrahim's "clash of civilisations" narrative-but never actually does so. His analysis remains confined to rhetorical abstractions and scriptural cross-quotations while sidestepping the historical record that could decisively confirm or refute Ibrahim's claims.
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Cybersecurity or Cyber Censorship? How "Digital Safety" Became the New Tool of Thought Control

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 27 October 2025 What began as a global effort to protect societies from online extremism is now being repurposed to police thought, silence dissent, and shield state propaganda. Under the banner of cybersecurity, governments censor criticism, amplify hate, and criminalise empathy - turning digital safety into digital servitude. 1.
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When Sentiment Replaces Sense: A Response to Ashrof's 'Kochi Hijab Incident'

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam V.A. Mohamad Ashrof's recent article, " Kochi Hijab Incident: Pro-Zionist Global Depiction Under Fire , does well to expose Robert Spencer's Islamophobic distortions - but in defending Muslim dignity, it ends up excusing Muslim irresponsibility. The article's silence on the parents' conduct is not a gesture of empathy; it is a failure of moral introspection.
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Profile of a Collaborator - and Its Rewards

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 15 October 2025 There is a certain pattern in the way empires select their heroes. They reward not those who resist oppression, but those who help make oppression look respectable. The collaborator is the indispensable mask of moral legitimacy behind which power hides its violence.
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The Trade of Ambiguity: How Hermeneutics Turned Clarity into a Marketplace

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 14 October 2025 Preface This article began as a response to Ashrof's defence of hermeneutics in his article: Why Meaning and Implementation Are Inseparable , but it quickly outgrew the boundaries of a mere exchange. It addresses something far deeper - the entire intellectual industry that thrives on turning divine clarity into human confusion.
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The Qur'an Sanctions Corrective Conjugal Violence (CCV), Not Punitive Torture (PT)

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 11 October 2025 This article is a companion to Qur'an 4:34: Strike - Plain, Bold, and Timeless and does not repeat aspects of the verse such as the preconditions on which it is premised, its advisory and non-binding nature, and the implicit agency of the woman to refuse to reform her behaviour and seek divorce.
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The Enduring Quest for Meaning - or the Refusal to Accept Clarity

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 10 October 2025 They Twist Their Tongues With The Book - And Call It Scholarship Abstract The Enduring Quest for Meaning in the Muhkamat 1. Meaning Is Not Implementation " endures only because distortionists refuse to accept what the Qur'an itself declares - that the Muhkamat are clear, unambiguous, and require no interpretation. The quest continues not out of reverence, but resistance to clarity.
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Are Rules Moral Because God Ordained Them, or Did God Ordain Rules Because They Are Moral?

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 9 October 2025 Ashrof says, "The Qur'an transcends mere human psychology and engages with divine wisdom that may not always align with empirical findings." Does it? Verse 3:30 says: Allah has created mankind upon a Fitrah (natural constitution); His revealed Deen is in perfect alignment with that Fitrah. If divine law corresponds to human nature, then Qur'anic morality must reflect-not oppose-what leads to genuine human flourishing.
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Can a Muhkamat Verse Support Multiple Material Interpretations While Preserving Its Plain Meaning and Internal Coherence?

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 6 October 2025 Opening: The debate over Qur'anic interpretation has long engaged scholars, but a focused question has dominated recent discussions: Can a Muhkamat (clear, unambiguous) verse be interpreted in materially different ways, while remaining faithful to its plain meaning and internally coherent?
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Beyond Sectarian TafsÄ"rs: The Qur'an's Self-Exegesis of 2:177

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam From Ritual Disputes to Universal Ethics: A Qur'anic Resolution Through 2:177 This article shows, through data-driven analysis, how the Qur'an itself interprets a central verse - Q2:177 - which defines piety or righteousness exhaustively and universally for all mankind.
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The Finite Hereafter and the Infinite Cycles of Divine Creation

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 22 September 2025 (In Continuation of "Logic Is Truth, While Interpretation Is Fallible") For centuries, scholars and translators - Arab and non-Arab alike - have struggled with the Qur'an's terminology surrounding the afterlife and cosmic destiny. Much of the difficulty arises from the collapsing of distinct terms into one another. Words that the Qur'an uses with scientific precision have been blurred into theological vagueness.
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Logic Is Truth, While Interpretation Is Fallible - (Unravelling 1,400 Years of Error: The True Meaning of Yawmi l-Ä€khiri)

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 19 September 2025 Introduction Muslim scholarship has produced libraries of Tafsir over the centuries, yet it has also carried forward some of its most glaring mistakes without correction.
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Qur'an 4:34: Strike - Plain, Bold, and Timeless

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 16 September 2025 Editor's Note No verse sparks more outrage than Qur'an 4:34 - the one that dares to say "strike." For centuries it has been twisted, softened, or denounced, yet the verse stands unflinching. This article takes the bull by the horns without euphemising, allegorising, or reinterpreting. It upholds the plain meaning and demonstrates its timeless wisdom across cultures - and therefore its eternal wisdom.
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From Inclusion to Exclusion: How Jurists Betrayed Qur'an 2:282

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 13 September 2025 Introduction This article emerges from an ongoing debate between Rasheed Abdul, Ashrof, Aziz, and Naseer Ahmed on the interpretation of Qur'an 2:282 - the verse misrepresented by classical jurists as reducing two women to one man in matters of testimony. To capture the spirit of the exchange, I have cast it as a courtroom drama. Two judges - Justice Adil (Justice) and Justice Hakeem (Wisdom) - preside over the case.
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The Qurʾānic Case Against Sectarianism

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 2 September 2025 Introduction This essay demonstrates, through direct Qur ʾ ā nic evidence, that sectarianism is prohibited, that the Prophet ﷺ was commanded to disassociate himself from sectarians, and that no sect has the right to claim the title of "Sunni". It also exposes the hypocrisy and corruption that sustained sectarian divisions, and shows that sectarian labelling is the same error committed by the followers of earlier prophets. 1.
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Zina: The Crime, the Consequences, and the Qur'anic Wisdom

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 1 September 2025 The discussion surrounding Zina is reduced in modern discourse to questions of legality, morality, or personal freedom. In Western societies, illicit sexual relations are decriminalised, framed as matters of consent between adults. This approach, however, ignores the profound psychological, social, and moral consequences of sexual immorality that the Qur'an identifies.
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Why and How Traditionalists and Modernists Equally Betray the Qur'an

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 26 August 2025 Unmasking The Veils That Block The Light Of Guidance And Knowledge ----- Preface This article tears away the veils that block the light of guidance and knowledge-veils behind which both traditionalists and modernists have concealed their betrayal of the Qur'an. One clings to inherited dogmas, the other to borrowed fashions, yet both refuse to take the Qur'an seriously on its own terms.
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The Hierarchy of Sins in the Qur'an: Causes, Consequences, and Divine Wisdom

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 25 August 2025 Introduction This essay unpacks the Qur'an's hierarchy of sins, explores its theological and social rationale, compares it with other traditions, and reflects on its urgent relevance today. 1. Shirk: The Root of All Corruption The Qur'an calls shirk-associating partners with Allah-the gravest sin. For Muslims and the People of the Book, shirk is described as unforgivable if persisted in until death (4:48, 4:116).
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Understanding the Roots of So-Called "Islamic Terrorism"

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 11 August 2025 Solving a problem first requires understanding its origins. Without identifying the causes, solutions risk treating only the symptoms, leaving the problem to fester, spread, or mutate. Outside the Palestine-Israel conflict, what is today labelled "Islamic terrorism" traces much of its origin to the Cold War battlefields of Afghanistan.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Architects of the Good Muslim vs Bad Muslim Binary

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 8 August 2025 "The savage custom of denying the humanity of others is alive and well, disguised now in the language of liberalism and security." - Frantz Fanon Introduction: Consent by Design, Islam by Dissection The modern Muslim is caught in a chokehold of narratives-not just from hostile powers, but from a class of writers, scholars, and state-endorsed thinkers who present Islam not as a religion, but as a pathology in need of surveillance, rehabilitation, or...
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Weaponising Sufism and Wahhabism to Subjugate Muslims

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 7 August 2025 The following is a summarised and edited version of: " Manufacturing 'Islam Lite': Sufism as 'Good Islam': How the politics of 'Good Muslim' vs. 'Bad Muslim' manufactures consent for genocide" by Farah El-Sharif. Read the original here. The Birth of "Good Islam" Bernard Lewis, the influential British-American historian and Middle East scholar, played a pivotal role in shaping Western imperial attitudes toward Islam.
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How Modern Muslims Became Prisoners of a Contradictory Legacy

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 6 August 2025 This is in continuation of my previous articles: Today's Muslim mind is caught in a tragic bind: urged to follow a religion of peace and justice, while also being told to venerate texts and traditions that undermine both. The confusion isn't accidental-it is the direct consequence of centuries of contradictions layered atop one another and sealed as sacred.
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Sacred Forgery Part 4: The Silencing of Conscience - How Dissent Was Branded as Heresy

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 5 August 2025 This is in continuation of my previous articles: Rewriting the Future: How Political Hadiths Forged our Past The Six Silent Witnesses: How Empire Froze the Hadith and Buried the Qur'an's Moral Voice The Hadith Methodology and Its Historical Consequences: A Critical Reappraisal While the Abbasid regime institutionalised hadith to mould a theology of obedience, it did not stop there.
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Divine Punishment in the Bible and the Quran: A Comparative Study

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 4 August 2025 Throughout history, communities have faced destruction through natural catastrophes-floods, earthquakes, droughts, and war. But the Quran and the Bible distinguish between ordinary calamities and divine punishment: targeted destruction that follows prophetic warning, rebellion, and persistent disbelief.
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TikToker Sameera Rajput’s suspicious death sparks investigation in Ghotki

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By Naseer Ahmed
| AAJ News Verified
The death of TikToker Sameera Rajput in Mumtaz Shah Mohalla of Ghotki takes serious turn. The body of the deceased was found in her house in suspicious conditions, while the family has alleged that Sameera was killed by giving her something poisonous. According to the police, the case has been registered in the local police station, based on complain from decease’s daughter.
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The Moral Physics of Resurrection: What Survives Death for Resurrection

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 17 July 2025 How the Quran Affirms Informational Continuity Without Invoking Soul Survival ----- The Quran speaks not of an immortal soul, but of informational preservation and continuity. This is another Quranic truth that remained veiled until now-and perhaps, I was the first to explain it in these terms in my articles dating back from July 2017.
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Ahsan as Excellence in Obedience: Not Interpretive Freedom but Moral Precision

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 12 July 2025 Across many parts of the Quran, the concept of -the best or most excellent way-is deeply tied not to choosing among meanings, but to doing good as best as we can or the excellence of obedience in moral and spiritual life. Those who interpret rather than take the clear meaning cite verses 39:18 and 7:145 in support, by misinterpreting in these verses as an invitation to select preferred meanings among equally valid alternatives.
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Repackaging Revelation: When Qur'anic Wisdom Is Quoted Without Credit

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam In his recent essay, " On Anatheism: Embracing the Divine Beyond Dogma," Adis Duderija presents what appears to be a progressive spiritual vision-one that rejects rigid dogma in favour of awe, humility, and an open-ended engagement with the Divine. But beneath the academic packaging, what is marketed as a postmodern discovery turns out to be a rebranding of ideas long articulated-clearly and profoundly-in the Qur'an.
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Rebutting the "Pluralist Hermeneutics" School: A Quran-Centric Defence of the Universal Message of 2:62

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By Naseer Ahmed
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By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam Introduction A growing trend in modern Quranic studies-represented by scholars such as Adis Duderija, Abdullah Saeed, and Farid Esack-advocates what is often described as pluralist hermeneutics. These scholars attempt to navigate between the poles of exclusivism and inclusivism by claiming that the Quran contains multiple, sometimes competing theological tendencies, including both universalist and exclusivist voices.
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Was the Prophet Justified in Raiding Meccan Caravans?

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam After discussing the divine laws of proportional justice in my previous article, " What Piers Morgan Doesn't Understand About Biblical Justice, " it is natural to ask: Did the early Muslims act within this moral framework when they raided Meccan trade caravans? Were these raids mere opportunistic attacks, or acts of retributive justice against a powerful oppressor?
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What Piers Morgan Doesn't Understand About Biblical Justice

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam Ever since October 7, 2023, in every debate on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Piers Morgan opens with the refrain: "Israel has a right and indeed an obligation to defend itself." To appear balanced, he adds that the only question that troubles him is " what is a proportional response?"-a question he never answers.
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Understanding the Message of the Quran: When Cross-Referencing is Unnecessary

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 28 June 2025 Abstract This article defends the primacy of the plain meaning of Quranic verses, especially when they express universal and inclusive principles, such as verse 2:62, which outlines salvation for believers across religious traditions. It argues that, given the attributes of Allah, we can take Him at His word when a verse is clear, without requiring validation or restriction through cross-referencing.
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Rescuing the Quran from Hermeneutics: Reclaiming the Quran's Message from the Shadows of Unnecessary Interpretations

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By Naseer Ahmed
| New Age Islam
By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 25 June 2025 Introduction The Quran describes itself as "a clear Book" () and revealed in "clear Arabic language" ( kitābun mubīn)-a guidance whose verses are "fully explained in detail" ( fu lisānin ilat āyātuhu arabiyyin mubīn ). Yet, Muslims have inherited a religious culture that treats this divine clarity as insufficient.
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