Author: Bilal Cleland

The Glorious Revolution of 1688, upon which our modern constitutional monarchy is based, is rooted in the example the Deists and Protestant Mahometans of Britain took from what they called “the Islamic Republic of Muhammad (s).” That revolution ushered in the notion of limited constitutional government, with an Executive bound by law and the will of parliament. No longer was the king to be God’s representative. whose will was equal to the Will of God. Written in the context of the “War on Terror” and the use of anti-Muslim rhetoric to promote conservative political agendas, Garcia in “Islam and...

The statement over the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem puts the position of Islam clearly. “There is no god but the God, and Abraham is His friend.” For it is a city for all the children of Abraham: Jews, Christians, Muslims. The second destruction of Jerusalem under Emperor Hadrian in 130 CE, after which Jews were expelled from the land forever, was a policy maintained by the Christian Eastern Roman Empire. The taking of control of the city from Byzantium in 628 CE is often portrayed as just another imperial conquest. It was not. Under the Byzantines, not only Judaism, but dissenting...