Pakistan Elections – Analysis PTI’s New Stance on The Blasphemy Law – Bilatakalluf
Rawal TV: Youtube: Published on May 3, 2013 Bilatakalluf with Tahir Gora Episode 91 Guests: Arshad Mahmood & Moeen Siddiqui Host: Tahir A. Gora More:
64 percent of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam
Washington Post: by Max Fisher. The Pew Research Center’s vast new study on the views and attitudes of global Muslim populations was bound to create controversy. Like the U.S. public knowledge polls that find that one-third of Americans can’t name the vice president, Pew’s report includes some less-than-flattering pieces of data. And while […]
Jemima Khan and the Part-Time Wife
BBC: Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the UK’s Muslim community. For divorced Muslim women, finding a new spouse isn’t always easy. But would being a part-time wife […]
The Future of Faith
Huff Post: by Dianne Butler Bass. Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that there are two significant cultural forces reshaping the religious future: 1) the rise of the “unaffiliateds,” including atheists, agnostics, humanists, “spiritual but not religious” and post-theists; and 2) the rise of religious pluralism and […]
Richard Dawkins and the Unbearable Smugness of Tweeting
Huff Post: by Scott Stephens. Dawkins’ views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media’s fixation with him. Dawkins makes for good copy — that’s why journalists love him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling, […]
Why people act against their beliefs
BBC Future: Ever been forced to defend a particular position and ended up believing it? You’ve succumbed to one of the most famous theories in social psychology. If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards. And if you find yourself acting out of line with your beliefs, change them. […]
Letters to God
Source: ET BY: Humdah Tahir She took the letters and burned them one by one wishing she could set the memories that haunted her to fire too… The box was placed between old grimy paperbacks. It had been there for a long time. She could tell by the layers of […]
Richard Dawkins’ anti-Islam/anti-Muslim propaganda exposed: The facts
Source: Loonwatch By Jai Singh There is currently increasing journalistic scrutiny of the atheist British scientist Richard Dawkins and his ally Sam Harris’ statements about Islam and Muslims. In December 2012, […]
India is Asia’s dharamshala – why not learn to love it?
Firstpost.com: The benevolence of politicians and bureaucrats is sometimes no benevolence at all. For some time now, there has been a trickle of Hindus from Pakistan coming to India on short-term visas, but their real purpose has never been in doubt: to flee discrimination and violence against Hindus in Pakistan. Earlier this […]
Pope Benedict’s sudden retirement and St. Malachi’s prophecy
Source: Digital Journal By Eliott Elwas Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the papacy in February 2013. The Pope’s sudden retirement reminds many biblical eschatologists of St. Malachi’s famous prophecies for the 112 Catholic popes. Pope Benedict XVI retired on Thursday, 28 February 2013. He is the first pope […]
Angelina Jolie Honors Malala Yousafzai and Donates $200,000 to Malala Fund
At the Women in the World Summit, Jolie made an emotional tribute to the young Pakistani activist—who made a special appearance via video to talk about her new education fund. […]
Four Reasons Why Bible is not Literal Word of God
Huff Post: Rabbi Alan Lurie: At one of the Republican presidential primary debates, viewers were invited to present questions to the candidates via YouTube. One questioner was an intense young […]
Truth About Easter: Council of Nicaea- The Triumph of Paganism (Paul) Over Unitarian (Arian) Christians
wikipedia: Council of Nicaea was called by Emperor Constantine in 325 CE in Contantinople (Istanbul) Agenda and procedure: The agenda of the synod included: The Arian question regarding the relationship between God […]
The Muslim Jesus
Huff Post: By: Alayna Ahmad: The Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus in the festival of Easter. For almost all Christians, Jesus is the Son of God who died to save mankind. Islam rejects this belief and views Jesus, also known as Isa, as a Prophet and the Messiah of […]
Love Is Revolution
Huff Post: by Eiton Press. My heart feels torn because I don’t want that which I love, which I am a part of, to experience suffering, to be destroyed, whether it be due to humankind’s unconscious behavior or otherwise. I want to live in a world that is free, that […]
France: Court Says Head Scarf Is No Grounds for Firing
New York Times: France’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a French Muslim woman was unjustly fired in 2008 for wearing a head scarf at work in a private child-care center in […]
The real fundamentalist: a true liberal
Daily Times: VIEW : The real fundamentalist: a true liberal — Mohammad Ahmad The real fundamentalist would know that there is neither any compulsion in religion nor does the religion bar anyone from accepting, rejecting or leaving it In a society strangled by fear, the reasonable are mostly afraid. The situation […]
On choosing Popes and Caliphs
Source: Express Tribune By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: March 22, 2013 A new pope was elected in the Vatican this month on March 13, 2013. Born in Argentina as Mario Bergoglio, he is now the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. The pomp and glory, the global publicity, the weeping crowds […]
Picture of the Day: A Hand Above all Hands
Collected by Abdul Alim: The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, told us: “When you find the Mahdi, perform bai’ah (pledge of allegiance) at his hand. […]
A Jesuit Pope: Who are the Jesuits, exactly?
The Economist: THE election of Pope Francis on March 13th was surprising for several reasons. He is the first pope from South America, making him the first non-European since the 8th century. He is […]