Why Islam Doesn’t Need a Reformation, Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam, Mehdi Hasan, New Age Islam Why Islam Doesn’t Need a Reformation By Mehdi Hasan 17 May 2015 15 In recent months, cliched calls for reform of Islam, a 1,400-year-old faith, have intensified. “We need a Muslim reformation,” announced Newsweek. “Islam needs […]
Source: American Thinker By Thomas Lifson Serious political conflict is breaking out in Germany over Chancellor Merkel’s open-door policy for Muslim migrants. Soren Kern of the Gatestone Institute reports: Germany’s […]
Source: US News This Is the Freest Country in the World Sorry, America. America may call itself the “Land of the Free,” but it’s hardly the freest nation in the […]
Source: CNN Donald Trump joked Monday that women in the Islamic world might prefer to wear burkas because it lessens the need to apply make-up. Trump, delivering a riff in […]
Source: The Huffington Post The always contentious issue of religious freedom appears to be heading back to the Supreme Court. Not that this court can be trusted to make a […]
Source: The Huffington Post CAIRO (Reuters) – A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country’s fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending thousands […]
Source: Huffington Post The Vatican’s new leaks scandal intensified Tuesday as a book detailed the mismanagement and internal resistance that has been thwarting Pope Francis’ financial reform efforts. Citing confidential […]
Source: The Guardian The upcoming poll on 8 November has been been touted as the freest and fairest in decades but, with religion an increasingly sensitive issue in Myanmar, many […]
Source: Reuters About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked […]
Source: The Atlantic The late Irving Feiner would have made a hell of a lawyer. After he spoke to my First Amendment class twenty years ago, a few students suggested […]
Source: Reuters The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious centre so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable. Much easier to […]
Source: Tribune A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer pretended to convert to Islam and assumed the role of a Brooklyn College student at the Islamic Society in New York […]
Source: BBC News I first met alcohol in the late 1980s. It was the morning after one of my parents’ parties. My sister and I, aged nine or 10, were […]
Source: Pew Research Center Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, […]
Source: Pew Research Center Religions Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination Christian70.6% Evangelical Protestant25.4% Mainline Protestant14.7% Historically Black Protestant6.5% Catholic20.8% Mormon1.6% Orthodox Christian0.5% Jehovah’s Witness0.8% […]
Source: CNN A Seattle-area assistant high school football coach has been placed on paid leave for continuing to pray on the field after games, weeks after his school district warned […]
About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked writers and […]
Source: New York Times By MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG NOV. 2, 2015 A few months before he took a toxic mix of drugs and died on a stranger’s couch, Nicklaus […]
Source: The Nation Sitara was a special kid from the start. Questioning everything around her, she was a difficult student to be satisfied. At the young age of 9, she […]
Epigraph: Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves. (Al Quran 2:144) Piety […]