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Is America Losing Its Mind?
PRAGERU.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1986: "Not everything within traditions is old and outmoded and not everything within modernity is a vehicle for progress or highly effective." ~~ Hazar Imam, 2005, 2008: "Make careful value judgements ..." "We have to make value judgements of the societies in which we live ..."] ARTICLE: Who wants to be called intolerant, inflexible, or closed-minded? Shouldn't we be open to everything and dismissive of nothing? Should we tolerate every crackpot idea, no matter how harmful or false? Alternatively, the question is: should we have any standards at all? Or should the standard simply be "anything goes?" If not, then on what should those standards be based? In a word: tradition; that is, what has worked well in the past. If we're going to overturn social norms, the burden of proof that radical social changes are going to make things better rests on the revolutionaries, not on the defenders of tradition: the conservatives. The conservatives have over 3,000 years of history behind them: the Bible, the ... ...
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'Abandoning People': Canada's Broadening Assisted Suicide Law Dangerous for the Vulnerable, Critics Say
THEEPOCHTIMES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1976: "What was once wrong is now simply unconventional, and for the sake of individual freedom must be tolerated. What is tolerated soon becomes accepted. Contrarily, what was once right is now viewed as outdated, old fashioned and is often the target of ridicule."] ARTICLE: There were 10,064 medical assisted deaths in Canada in 2021, accounting for 3.3% of all deaths. Medical assistance in dying (or MAiD) is now the sixth-leading cause of death in Canada. Family doctor Ramona Coelho calls Canada's MAiD laws "the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world." Even United Nations officials have warned they will lead to human rights violations. ~~ After a fall, 71-year-old Ernest McNeill was admitted to hospital where he contracted an infectious diarrheal illness. He was in a lot of pain so someone on the hospital team raised the idea of medical assistance in dying. Recently, a Veteran Affairs worker recommended MAiD ...
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Readings on His Highness the Aga Khan
Featured photo above: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the oldest humanities research institute in Canada, on May 20, 2016 conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters upon His Highness the Aga Khan, in recognition of his work to advance, and advocate for, pluralistic societies across the globe. Richard Alway, Praeses of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies congratulates the ...
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Psychology and Religious Experience in Islam -- BoAI Vol #3
GOOGLE.COM -- One of the most radical transformations brought about by the rise of science in the West is the weakening of conventional religion. Through the contact between the West and the East through trade, colonialism and, last but not least, improved communications, a similar tendency towards indifference to traditional religion has been observable in non-Western countries. In Islamic countries, the conflicts and strains resulting from this trend are generally considered as aspects of the so-called "Muslim Modernism." A very important factor in the controversy over the meaning and value of religion has been the rise of such academic disciplines as history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. These disciplines have ...
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The Blue Mosque of Singapore
Global -- In 2005, vice-principal Mohamed Nasim came across an article from 1956 during some research. A mistake in a photo caption prompted him to begin an 17-year journey that ended in him writing a book entitled The Blue Mosque of Singapore. The photo, published in The Straits Times, captured the foundation stone ceremony of Malabar Mosque, and named H.A. Jivabhai ...
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