Poll: Republicans want religious system in U.S
World Bulletin / News Desk A Public Policy Polling (PPP) national survey conducted between February 20th and February 22nd of Republican voters, found that an astonishing 57 percent of Republicans […]
Pakistan Court Gives Life Sentences To Men Who Attacked Malala Yousafzai
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:180) The Huffington Post | By Jade […]
Possible Death Penalty For North Carolina Shooter Craig Hicks Gets Mixed Reaction From Muslims
Religion News Service | By Yonat Shimron DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) News that prosecutors plan to seek the death sentence for a man accused of killing three Muslim students in Chapel […]
How the “Ban” on Images of Muhammad Came to Be
Epigraph: Have We not opened for thee (Muhammad) thy bosom, and removed from thee thy burden, Which had well nigh broken thy back, and We exalted thy name? (Al Quran 94:2-5) Courtesy: […]
Supreme Court Rules For Bearded Muslim Inmate, Upholding Religious Rights Of Prisoners
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas who sued for the right to grow a short beard for religious reasons. Read further […]
Two sentenced to death for Ahmadi mosque attack in Pakistan, in 2010
Source: Samaa.tv: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today awarded death sentence to two militants for their role in 2010 bomb and gun attack on an Ahmadi worship place in Lahore. The two convicts, Maawia and Abdullah, were handed the sentence on seven counts. Both the militants are members of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
Court sentences Ahmadi worship place attackers to death, life imprisonment
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After years of persecution, Ahmadiyya followers seek redress at civil court
malaymailonline: by Joseph Sipalan — Followers of the Ahmadiyya sect are considered deviant by many Islamic countries that follow the Sunnah wal Jamaah ideology, which includes Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — Followers of the outlawed Ahmadiyya sect are challenging a crackdown on their activities nearly a year ago, on […]
Ireland’s lack of action on blasphemy law disappoints atheists and secularists
theguardian: by Henry McDonald — Atheists have called the Irish government’s failure to put the controversial blasphemy laws up for a vote a betrayal. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Irish atheists and secularists have accused their government of breaking a promise to call a referendum over the Republic’s controversial blasphemy laws […]
The real war is the war of narrative
Dawn.com: by Farrukh Khan Pitafi — The terrorist narrative of victimhood, denial and conspiracy theories can easily be deconstructed and dismantled. The closer you want to get to eradicating the menace of terrorism, the bigger this menace seems to get. For the past week, following the attack in Peshawar, our […]
Forum: A Muslim’s reaction to torture reports — tactics are just wrong
Source: New Haven Register By Sohail Z. Husain Halloween was over a month ago — a day to revel over ghoulish characters and hideous images. And now we are supposed to be in a season of merry. These days, though, it seems like scenes reminiscent of Halloween continue to haunt […]
The only constitution the world needs is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Epigraph: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Video: Separation of Mosque-Church and State, Ex Leader of Jamaat Islami will Prove its Need
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If anyone was not conviced completely about the paramount need for Separation of Mosque-Church and State, […]
Geo Owner gets 26 years’ jail for blasphemy
REUTERS – Pakistan’s largest media group said on Wednesday it will appeal against a 26-year jail term for its owner for blasphemy, the latest twist in a long-running feud between […]
The Right to Say ‘God’ Divides a Diverse Nation
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia — As the students knelt in a circle at a Christian kindergarten near the shores of the South China Sea, a 6-year-old girl in pigtails read out a chapter from a children’s Bible: “Sepuluh hukum dari Allah” — God’s Ten Commandments. Technically, she broke the law. According […]
Religion under our constitution by Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — The most important reason why it is not supposed to be a theocratic constitution is because it seeks to enable Muslims to live according to Islam and not force them to live according to Islam. Very few lawyers, jurists and members of the […]
What is Shariah?
Written by Dr. Lutf ur Rehman, Nashville, TN (USA) Allah says in the Holy Quran, “We have set you on a clear path (Shariah) in the matter of religion, so […]
Amazon Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders
Courtesy of Hanif Koya, California Author: Denise Spellberg Introduction In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a […]
Sealing Ahmadiyya Mosque Depok deny Constitution 45- Legal Aid Foundation
Note: The news has been translated in to English with help of Google Translator GATRA news: sealing action of Masjid Al – Hidayah belonging to the Ahmadiyya community, on Highway […]
Dispensation of Justice is a mockery in Pakistan
By Saeed Qureshi How can justice be delivered in a country where murderers and rapists go home after payment of blood money or reconciliation with the aggrieved party? This reconciliation is imposed more often than not on the victimized party by threats or intimidation. In other instances a payment as […]