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The clandestine religion
There is a far greater threat to Islam in this country than Christianity. It is more clandestine and it has spread its invisible wings and planted firmly its talons. It is a belief system just like Islam and Christianity and...
What tolerance?
While the accusations fly from one presidential candidate to the other and from one party to the other over religious issues there is one thing that we must remember. And that is to keep our heads where they belong and...
The Noble work of Gayoom (Alayhi Salaam)
It is clear that a sizable majority of this country is still for sale for two time-tested commodities: money and religion. Money Over 40% of the population falls into the low income bracket. The election came at an unfortunate...
Thoughts on the apostasy case
I believe the acquittal of president Gayoom on the charge of apostasy was an important milestone in the process of providing fair and inalienable rights to all Dhivehin and implementation of the rule of law in this country. The public...
The charge of apostasy
Our incumbent president, Gayoom, will go into history books with many records and firsts to his name. The most recent of these would be the court case accusing him of apostasy. The outcome, if in favor of the prosecution, would...
Politics, Allah willing
What is it about religion that has Maldivians wide-eyed and foaming at the mouth from time to time? I'll tell you later. We're always on the lookout for people "using" and exploiting religion as a political tool these days and...
The Rubbish we are fed
There is a program on DhiFM that is broadcast around the ungodly Ramazan hour of 8:30 am everyday that might as well have been titled "The Golden Bullshit". The program is actually titled "Ran Galan", or "Golden Pen" in English....
Mount Vesuvius or Mounting Ignorance
According to a TVM program that was broadcast around 9:30 this morning the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that wiped out Pompeii was God's wrath and anger. Accompanied by still photos of the excavated ruins of Pompeii and...
Our Environmental Apathy
This morning on a certain FM radio station was a listener call-in discussion program and the topic was The Environment. During the 10 minutes of the program that I heard 2 callers were put on air and both had basically...
What about the Children?
I am a father of 3 very young children. I, as their father, am responsible for their security more than anything else. Their life is a thousandfold more precious to me than my own. I will ensure that no harm...
Death and the Hereafter
In the 1982 "American cyberpunk" film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, the humanoid or biorobotic being (who are known as "Replicants") named "Roy" - created by a man called Tyrell - confronts his creator in one of the many dramatic...
The Music Stupid
The sensual haunting voice in Mea Culpa, the fourth track on Enigma's 17 years old album MCMXC a.D. commences with these sinful confessions of the conscience: Je ne dors plus (I can't sleep anymore) Je te desire (I desire you)...
The people previously known as Muslims
As I walked past a bunch of men clad in Pakistani garb and sporting unshaven beards, I heard one of them say, "these people, they are not Muslims!" It was said in Dhivehi in such a way that I could...
Sun rising from the west
Once again the credulous masses of this country are proving how very gullible they really are. Nothing has changed in over the 30 years of the so-called development we've had. We've sunk ourselves up to our noses in credulous beliefs....
The Evil Eye
When I made a kindly remark about the beautiful tuft of thick black hair on the crown of the new born child I was warned by the father that saying such things might inadvertently cast "esfeena" on the baby. That's...
Religious Mythology
From an early age our religious education constitutes of a mix of banal religious routines, lofty tales of prophetic tradition and conquests and heady Islamic mythology. Therefore, it is not surprising that from an early age we simply cannot tell...
Veils of Deception
The Age reported on the 31st of October that Afghan police working at a highway checkpoint noticed something odd about a burga clad woman passenger in a vehicle. She was unusually tall and when questioned refused to answer. The report...
A question of faith
I've been told on innumerable occasions that the solution to the world's conflicts is faith (most people say that to mean one of many religions). Not economics, not science, not reason, not rationality, not the understanding of human progress but...
Signs of collapse?
"Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith,...
The State of the Muslim World
Comments facility on this post has been turned off temporarily as it looks like people whose brains cannot articulate without using profanity has acquired the knowledge to post comments. With the days rolling by after the attack of 29th September...