Opinion| Religious wars in the Middle East
This follows on from the phenomenon of exploiting religion in the service of political goals, which has begun to spread again, but this time in the Middle East. Marwa El- […]
Abuse of religion to foster extremism a universal phenomenon
Jul 29,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby When Americans express concern about religious extremism and violence, they almost always are thinking about Islam. The problems posed by the politicisation […]
Theorizing about religion been one of the core areas inquiry in IR: Peter Haas
By Javad Heirannia International April 30, 2019 TEHRAN – Peter M. Haas, a professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst says that the crux of the argument […]
The bigots of Politics
By Ali Arqam | Cover Story | Pakistan has a long history of politicians playing the faith or religion card to woo the voter, or to settle scores against […]
Separating politics from religion
Aug 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB Colourful posters of smiling candidates are not new among election-related paraphernalia. But a certain orange-colour poster caught people’s attention because of the slogans it contained. One slogan read: “No to the exploitation of religion.” Another affirmed support “for a civilian state”. A […]
Would Jesus Buy an Automatic Assault Weapon?
Huff Post: by Charles Negy: One of the things that has always struck me about many Christians in the United States is the disconnect between their faith in Jesus and their personal behavior. One obvious example that rears its ugly head once a year is the whole enterprise of Christmas […]
The religion and politics of division
Washington Post: By Lisa Miller, Published: February 24 Last week, the Christianity police, in the persons of Rick Santorum andFranklin Graham, came forward to discredit the president’s religious beliefs. First, Santorum called President Obama’s […]
Solomonic wisdom needed to establish Separation of Mosque-Church-Synagogue and State
By Zia H Shah MD Fresco of the Judgment of Solomon (Courtesy: Wikipedia) The Judgment of Solomon refers to a story from the Hebrew Bible in which King Solomon of […]
Finding God everywhere in Lebanon
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon Readers will forgive me if I use a personal milestone as the premise for what follows. The year 2012 marks 20 years since […]
Is Rick Santorum completely or partially wrong?
By Dean Obeidallah reported by CNN ” Plainly put, Rick Santorum wants to convert our current legal system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with religious law, not unlike what the Taliban want to do in Afghanistan. Santorum is not hiding this. The only reason you may not […]
Canada’s Government Plan for the Office of Religious Freedom
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says his department’s new Office of Religious Freedom won’t become a vehicle for playing domestic politics in Canada’s immigrant communities. Mr. Baird dismissed criticism […]
UK David Cameron: the Church must shape our values
David Cameron warned the Church of England that it must keep to an “agenda that speaks to the whole country” as he said Britain should be proud to be a […]