Zawiyah Rosales 2015. A Saudi Morals Enforcer Called for a More Liberal Islam. Then the Death Threats Began. In Turkey, Sufi music is used to decrease patient stress. The intensive care unit of Istanbul Memorial Hospital looks like any modern hospital anywhere.
But it definitely doesn’t sound like one. Dr. Bingür Sönmez, a cardiac surgeon for more than 30 years, plays traditional Sufi songs on the ney flute for his patients. "What we are doing in intensive care, we are playing Sufi music to our patients to calm down, to make them feel much better,” he said. Sufism is a mystic branch of Islam whose traditional music is popular among Turks. “In this country, in Ottoman Empire times, we used to treat psychiatric patients with music in hospitals, in local hospitals,” Sönmez said. After a short performance for one patient, anesthesiologist Erol Can said the patient's heart rate decreased by 15 percent. “We recorded heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen delivery, the oxygen saturation of the blood. The impact of music on anxiety is well documented by doctors and researchers. Halal Choices – But Not For Muslims. Every now and then something silly happens in Australia and I wonder whether it’s better to talk about it or lay on the ground and wait for the stupid to subside.
Sometimes, I’ll make jokes to highlight how ridiculous something is, other times I write about it. This is going to be one of those times – no, no. I promise I won’t lay on the ground. Let’s talk about it. Let’s get all the key players out first. Kirralie Smith believes in freedom – for her beliefs only, obvs. Halal Choices Halal Choices is the baby of Kirralie Smith who claims to ‘love the freedom we have’ in Australia.
Depending on the time of day that Kirralie does an interview or presentation, she can go from purely wanting companies with halal certifications to clearly label their products to wanting all Muslims to be a bit more patriotic and do away with their silly halal requirements. Kirralie has been on her mission for a couple of years now. I once thanked Halal Choices for their contribution to the Muslim Community. Suhaib Webb - Occupy Your Soul. Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer For? Throughout November, The Huffington Post UK is featuring its Beyond Belief series, chronicling the remarkable lives of Britons who've taken on their faith to create a force for change.
It is the most common comeback from atheists to people of faith: religion is the main cause of wars. Without faith, many say, there would have been no 9/11 attacks, no Israeli-Palestinian conflict, no Troubles in Northern Ireland, no violent disputes over words in holy texts - even no Islamic State. Richard Dawkins, Britain’s best-known atheist, has argued that religion has been the main cause of violence and war throughout history. He wrote in his 2013 autobiography that “religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a ‘they’, as opposed to a 'we' can be identified.
" Dawkins has said that if religion were somehow abolished, there would be "a much better chance of no more war". Islamist group Al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. My Journey from Salafi to Sufi (Coming out)…. Part 1. Likely, this will cause some controversy, so I hope my readers will forgive me if I try to ‘lessen the blow’ so to speak by clarifying the title of this blog.
I want to do so because, on the one hand I want a ‘catchy’ title that will grab peoples’ attention, but on the other hand, I don’t want the article itself to come off as a diatribe or apologetic. The whole of what I’m about to write could be summed up by simply saying, “If someone wants to call himself Salafi, it’s fine, and if someone wants to call himself Sufi, it’s fine.” The terms I wish to clarify, firstly, are the words themselves, “Salafi” and Sufi, and each term has two definitions; the first being how it’s followers perceive it, and then how those who choose not to ascribe to themselves such title(s) see it.
Salafism according to non-Salafi’s: A Puritanical sect of Islam that has went against mainstream Islamic Orthodoxy on some issues, and which adheres, typically, to the strictest opinion that can be deciphered.