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The questions people find hardest
Women, violence, law, leaving the faith, suffering, and race: careful, sourced answers that do not pretend the hard parts away.
- 1Society & difficult questions
What does Islam teach about women?
What the sources say about women, and where practice has fallen short.
Short answer - 2Society & difficult questions
What does jihad mean? Does Islam permit terrorism?
What jihad means and what Islam says about terrorism.
Short answer - 3Society & difficult questions
What is Sharia, and is it the same as a country’s law?
Sharia, fiqh, and the law of a state are not the same thing.
Short answer - 4Society & difficult questions
Can someone leave Islam?
People leave. What the Qur’an says, what classical law said, and the debate today.
Short answer - 5Beliefs
If God is merciful, why is there suffering?
If God is merciful, why is there suffering?
Short answer - 6Society & difficult questions
What does Islam say about racism?
The teaching, and the gap between teaching and practice.
Short answer - 7Society & difficult questions
Islam and other faiths.
How Islam sees everyone else.
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