Asia

The Believers Against Believers

Source: Carawan By Dr Aslam Abdullah, who is the Director-Imam of the Islamic Society of Nevada. He also teaches Islamic Studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas, OLLI program and is the chief editor of the Detroit-based weekly newspaper Muslim Observer The Islamic world is being riven apart between the theology […]

Indonesia’s Religious Tolerance Problem

WSJ: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono leaves office this year, and already assessments of his legacy are ramping up. He has most often been described as, among other things, a force for religious moderation in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority democracy. The reality is different, however. He has presided over […]

Prophecy Playing out in Pakistan

By Tufail Ahmad New Indian Express   During the 1930s through the forties, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the toast of Muslim politics in India, but it was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who had a substantive vision for human progress. Azad’s real name was Abul […]