Pope urges ‘humane’ US migrant response in US Congress
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they […]
French Far-Right Politician Will Go on Trial for Comparing Muslims to Nazis
Time: French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen is set to face a trialin October for her past comments likening Muslim public prayers to the Nazi occupation, officials from her party and prosecutors in the eastern city of Lyon said Tuesday. The Lyon prosecutor’s office said Le Pen will be charged […]
Refugee Crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row
Source: BBC Croatia’s interior minister says there is ‘no possibility’ to stop people arriving Migrant crisis How is migrant crisis dividing EU countries? Migrant clashes leave Hungary bitterly divided What […]
Faith and secular global bodies learn to live together
Economist: THERE are many reasons why sceptics might find fault with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, along with 169 associated targets, which the leaders of the world (including the pope) will adopt, with some fanfare, in New York this week. One problem, as a colleague has written, is that they […]
We Will be Judged by Our Compassion and Deeds and Not Our Dogma
Epigraph: So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief […]
MI5 pays UK Muslims to spy on terror suspects
Guardian: MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions to help avert terrorist attacks by homegrown Islamist extremists. Individuals across the UK, including in Manchester and London, are being […]
Corbyn blames BRITAIN and the US for the rise of ISIS: Labour leader rejects bombing Syria because it will spark more ‘mayhem’
Source: Daily Mail Jeremy Corbyn said ISIS was created ‘in part’ by western interventions Claimed Western arms and money was ending up with the terror group Labour leader confirmed he would not support any bombing against ISIS He said he would make Britain safer by ‘becoming a force for human […]
Islam is just as European as Christianity
Source: Quartz Written by Haroon Moghul – a Senior Correspondent at Religion Dispatches and a novelist. He writes extensively on international affairs, religion and culture. “Xenophobic and anti-Muslim” was how […]
Mehdi Hasan’s powerful refutation of Islamophobia in Oxford Union, from 2013
Mehdi Hasan | Islam Is A Peaceful Religion | Oxford Union You Tube: Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, political editor of the Huffington Post, warns Anne-Marie Waters that her “astonishing claims” […]
Again: Saudi Arabia Wins Bid to Behead of UN Human Rights Council Panel
http://blog.unwatch.org/: GENEVA, September 20, 2015 – U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini should condemn and work to reverse the appointment of Saudi Arabia as head of a key UN Human Rights Council panel that selects top officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide, said UN Watch, a non-governmental watchdog organization […]
Abou Ben Adhem, A Compassionate Man
Abou Ben Adhem BY LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, […]
The refugee crisis reminds us how interconnected we all are
Source: Huffington Post World Religious Leaders Address Refugee Crisis By Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Founder and Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. Acknowledged as one of the world’s leading figures in interreligious dialogue. […]
Syria archaeological sites looted ‘on industrial scale’: UNESCO
Daily Times: Archeological sites in Syria are being looted “on an industrial scale” and the proceeds from the plunder are funding Islamic State extremists, the head of UNESCO warned on […]
Half Of Former Catholics Have Forsaken Religion Altogether
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post And the majority of them say they are unlikely to return to the church. Roughly half of Americans […]
Charlie Hebdo Mocks The Death of Syrian Child Aylan Kurdi
Rabat – While newspapers across the world have paid tribute to Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who became the symbol of the refugee crisis, Charlie Hebdo has featured cartoons of the […]
Bridging the Divides: Muslims in Europe
By Raza Rumi; Writer, journalist and international development practitioner. C.Editor at The Friday Times, Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy, Washington D.C. Huff Post: Islam is ‘incompatible’ with Western civilization is […]
Saudi Arabia offers Germany 200 mosques – one for every 100 refugees who arrived last weekend
independent.co.uk: Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany. Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and […]
The German designer behind the Queen’s dress
Source: The Local The new portrait released to mark the day is appropriately British, featuring the Queen sitting at her desk in Buckingham Palace, opening one of her official red boxes, looking off to the side while Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney snaps the photo. But aside from Her […]
Marriage and Annulment: When Will the Catholic Church Leave the Catholics Alone?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many in the contemporary world think of marriage and divorce as a personal matter between the husband […]
Vicious attack at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Association centre in Langwarrin
heraldsun.com.au: A VICIOUS attack has rocked members of a Langwarrin Muslim community centre. Police are appealing for witnesses after a man entered the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Association centre on September […]