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When I first received the e-mail giving me the title of this conference, I was quite dismayed. Firstly, futuwwa was a subject I did not know too well and secondly, I was unable to see what relevance it might have for the young people of this era who are the focus of this meeting. As far as I was concerned, …

It has been related from Anas Ibn Malik, in Bukhari, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and give him peace, said: “Among the signs of the Hour (the end of this world), are the disappearance of knowledge, the establishment of ignorance, the drinking of wine and the appearance of fornication”. Abu Hurayra related from the Prophet, may …

We must look to the French Revolution if we are to understand the origin of the ideology and violence of the Islamic State. For some weeks now there have been insinuations that the Islamic State and its ideologies are some kind of throwback to a distant past. Frequently couched in language such as that used last week by British Deputy …

If the Sephardim have obtained historical reparation from Spain, why not the Moriscos? The descendants of those Moriscos expelled from Spain in the 17th century do not hide a certain feeling of “exclusion” and demand the same treatment from Spain as that reserved for the Sephardic Jews. Their surnames are Loubaris (from Olivares), Bargachi (from Vargas) Buano (from Bueno), Sordo, …

Spain surprised, without warning, by making public its intention to grant Spanish nationality on a discretionary basis to approximately a quarter of a million Sephardim, the Jews who were expelled from Spain during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, who were the promoters of the Inquisition tribunals. In principle, the Spanish decision is not at all surprising, …

The Balañá Group, owner of the land, has categorically denied that it is negotiating the reconversion of the old Monumental bullring into a large mosque built thanks to a donation from an emir of Qatar. This is the information that has been published since last January by some media and that emerges and resurfaces, with increasingly extravagant details that are …

We are all shocked and terrified by the images and news coming out of Gaza showing the burned and mutilated bodies of our Muslim brothers and sisters, men, women and children, trapped with nowhere to flee or hide, killed in their own homes with lethal bombs and missiles. The images break our hearts; and how could they not when it …