Huff Post: Ari Hart. “Blessed are you, Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has not made me a woman.” — Morning Blessings, Artscroll Siddur, p. 12. I’m supposed to say that each morning. If I were a woman, I would recite this instead: “Blessed are you, Lord our God, Ruler […]
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 […]
Huff Post: by Pat Schneider. Sometimes when things are so real they hurt, words come that T.S. Eliot called “what we know and do not know we know.” I said, “Fred, I bet God is delighted! For the first time in your life, you talked to God in your native […]
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 […]
Huff Post: by Maurici Garrido. Religious traditions are often criticized for providing untestable elements in their books of wisdom. Among these elements, the soul’s existence is one of the most debated in talks between science and religion. But is the concept of the soul really so vague and does it […]
Huff Post: Martin Spinelli. Three hours later I was by Lio’s side in pediatric intensive care. The space was dark and windowless, lit mostly by the small red LEDs of medical equipment. There, surrounded by a halo of computer screens, I found my only child with a fractured skull, severe […]
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 […]
In the Islamic tradition, we are reminded, “The best actions are those which are small and consistent.” Those words from the Prophet Muhammad remind us the importance that even the smallest of deeds can have with the right intention. Each of us can pray. Each of us can give. Each of […]
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 […]
Source: Mail Online, by Helen Lawson. A Scottish church has become the first in the UK to share its premises with Muslim worshippers. St John’s Episcopal Church in Aberdeen now welcomes hundreds of Muslims praying five times a day in their building as the nearby mosque was so small that […]
Islam compatible with universal human norms, Muslim scholars say NEW YORK, March 7 (APP): A conference of leading Muslim scholars from across the world, held in Istanbul earlier this week, adopted a strongly worded resolution that reaffirmed Islam’s compatibility with universal human norms and called on religious institutions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and neighbouring countries […]
Source: Huff Post, by Jeffrey Small. Our individual lives are short, inconsequential in a universe that is 13.7 billion years old. We are finite. We suffer. Yet the faiths of the world also teach us that we can transcend suffering and death because we are part of something bigger than […]
It took over a century for the main stream Muslims – as seen here- to catch up with the true meaning of Jihad. The first to expound the true meaning was the 20th Century Imam Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. The Muslims are slowly coming together on the true meaning as […]
Source: examiner.com, by Saima Ahmad. There is no question about the love Muslims have for their Prophet or their desire to uphold his honor at all times. But, the willingness of some to take their own lives or of others who might have insulted him is in fact un-Islamic. The […]
Opponents of girls’ right to education violate Islam, ambassador tells United Nations From the Newspaper | Masood Haider Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan. –APP File Photo UNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience […]
Source: onislam. AMSTERDAM – A leading member in far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ party has reverted to Islam after an extensive study about the Islamic religion and Muslims. “I can understand people are skeptic, especially that it is unexpected for many of them,” Arnoud Van Doorn told Al-Jazeera English […]
This collection of Press Releases and news coverage in Fiji on the celebration of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Day observed by Fiji Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, forwarded Mr. Ashfaq Khan, Sadr Khudammul Ahmadiyya Fiji are rearranged in the e-Muslim News. Please read and forwards friends and family. Thanks. (Koya)
What Kerry Doesn’t Know About Democracy and Islam Pretending there’s no elephant in the world doesn’t protect anyone from getting trampled. By: Barry Rubin Published: March 1st, 2013 TELL A FRIEND Senator John Kerry visiting Cairo’s Tahrir Square, March 20, 2011. Originally published at Rubin Reports. In practically his first outing as […]
Source: Huff Post, by Peter A. Georgescu. Hindus believe there is a monkey god who travels thousands of kilometers at a single somersault. Catholics believe a woman who had not yet been fertilized by a man became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, whose body eventually after his […]
Source: Huff Post, by Peter Rollins. The common reason why people think unbelief is problematic is because it stands in opposition to belief, that unbelief is a stance that prevents us frombelieving. However the problem with unbelief lies precisely in the opposing position: namely, unbelief is required in order to support […]