Morning Star: ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Police and a banned Islamic extremist group in Lahore, Pakistan are searching for a young Christian accused of blasphemy – with the extremist group calling for his death – after he sought to correct misconceptions about Christianity in a Muslim book, sources said. Sources […]
WARSAW, Poland — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Animal rights activists in Poland have disturbed the start of an Islamic holiday which involves the recently banned slaughter of conscious animals. A group of angry animal rights activists on Tuesday tried to prevent Muslim community in Bohoniki, in eastern Poland, from proceeding […]
Why So Many Latinos Are Becoming Muslims SOURCE: ICNA NEWSLETTER By Tim Padgett Most Latinos know the country is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month right now. What far fewer Latinos know is that next week marks Eid al-Adha, one of Islam’s most sacred holidays. And yet the two observances are more […]
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yE8xrwormwo/UeEsaenxzpI/AAAAAAAACJ8/R2wAwnhcWT8/s400/Kambal%20001.JPG SAN FRANCISCO-Recently San Francisco-based Jewish Multimillionaire, inventor and filmmaker Dr. Maurice Kanbar gave a surprise lunch invitation to Dr. Hanif Koya editor/publisher of the FIJI SUN USA. Considering it as an honor, Koya accepted the invitation and met for a lunch at the Perry s at San Francisco Square. […]
Converting to Islam: British women on prayer, peace and prejudice Around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year – and most of them are women. Five of them talk about prejudice, peace and praying in car parks Ioni Sullivan: ‘In my heart, I began to consider myself a Muslim.’ […]
VIEW : Our Founding Fathers included Islam — III — Denise Spellberg Thomas Jefferson would be the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the 18th century Even earlier in his political life — […]
Guardian: While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur’an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on […]
Guardian: While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur’an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on […]
Huff Post: by Arianna Huffington. Philosophers have known this for centuries. “No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility,” wrote the first-century Stoic philosopher Seneca in his Moral Letters to Lucilius. And in practically every religious tradition and practice, giving […]
globalonenessProject: Palestinian peaceworker Ibtisam Mahameed speaks about her role as an Arab Muslim woman working towards peace in the holy land. Mahameed speaks about her role as an Arab Muslim woman working towards peace in the holy land. She describes the need to listen with an open heart and the importance of […]
Promoted post: Video: Is this dream of Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad applicable to Russia Ukraine war now? The video about homeopathy is in Urdu from 2013: In the question at time […]
Huff Post: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated in 2013 from sundown on Sept. 4 to nightfall on Sept. 6. The Hebrew date for Rosh Hashanah is 1 Tishrei 5774. Though Rosh Hashanah literally means “head of the year,” the holiday actually takes place on the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Pope Francis got a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of pilgrims on Monday as he arrived in Brazil on his first foreign trip as pontiff, but violent protests later swept the streets. The 76-year-old Argentine rode in a open-top jeep through the center of […]
The Muslim Times is promoting secularism in every country of the world Journalist Mustafa Akyol, from Turkey, talks about the way that some local cultural practices (such as female circumcision […]
Wahhabi Islam: General Overview Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:56:56 PM by StevenAU The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 shook the United States to its core. Since those horrific moments, our nation has been thrust into a global war against terror and religious extremism. Now more than ever, […]
Salon.com: While a scientist like Richard Dawkins might be forgiven for not having his philosophic/aesthetic house in order, no such tolerance should be allowed for his notorious comrade-in-arms Christopher Hitchens. […]
Huff Post: Think of the Apostles and what images come to mind? Chances are it is of some gray-bearded men, advanced in years — in their fifties perhaps, or even substantially older. If it is St. Paul you are conjuring up, he probably looks intense, thin, wide-eyed. And if it […]
Source: Digital Journal By John Thomas Didymus. The moral-ethical dimension arises from the predictable tendency when acting on the problem, armed with a new technology, to apply to the label […]
Gulf News: Vatican Cardinal to open Dh18.5 million St Anthony of Padua Church on Friday By Jay B. Hilotin, Chief Reporter Published: 21:18 June 12, 2013 ABU DHABI/RAS AL KHAIMAH Vatican representative Cardinal Fernando Filoni will open the new Catholic church in Ras Al Khaimah on Friday. Cardinal Filoni, the […]
Huff Post: by Andrew Schwartz. Many of my friends who have transitioned from being religious to being atheists speak of the deep existential peace that it gives them. This is huge and nothing to be argued with. Anyone who has found themselves on the despair side of Sisyphean struggle knows […]
