Celebrating Ramadan in the Arctic
Source: Washington Post By Andrew Martin July 10 Andrew Martin is a fiction writer and freelance journalist and critic living in Charlottesville, Va. In the Canadian city of Iqaluit, laborers […]
Catholics Giving Up Sacraments: Becoming More Like Muslims?
Catholic Families Are Strong On Prayer But Weak On Sacraments, According To Study For Religion News Service (RNS) By Cathy Lynn Grossman Posted: 07/11/2015 (RNS) Most of today’s American Catholic parents […]
Is God to Blame for Our Food Crisis?
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist A one-liner by Indian actor Kamal Haasan caught my eye on social media recently. It read, “I […]
US torture report: psychologists should no longer aid military, group says
Epigraph: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated. The two […]
America’s Best Muslim Comedians To Star In First-Ever Muslim Funny Fest
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor What do Muslims in America have to laugh about? Quite a lot, say the organizers of New York City’s — and possibly America’s […]
Waiting for Pope Francis’ Apology for Inquisitions and Crusades, as He Apologizes in South America
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times July 9, 2015 Pope Apologizes For Catholic Church’s ‘Offenses’ Against Indigenous Peoples By Nicole Winfield, Jacobo Garcia […]
Demystifying ISIS: Religion or Politics?
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Media scares about ‘sharia marriages’ miss the point
Epigraph: And one of His Signs is this, that He has created wives for you from among yourselves that you may find peace of mind in them, and He has […]
Sam Harris and William Lane Craig debate: Is Good From God?
Epigraph: And by the soul and its perfection — And He revealed to it what is wrong for it and what is right for it — He indeed truly prospers […]
Islam, America and July 4th
Epigraph: “Indeed, Islam rests on the foundation of Tauheed, the oneness of God, oneness of universe and oneness of mankind with liberty and justice. If Quran, the holy book of […]
Nominating Robert Fisk for Nobel Peace Prize for 2015
Epigraphs: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our […]
Tunisia hotel attack: Backdrop to this slaughter is a history of violence against Muslims
Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk, the Independent’s multiple award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut It didn’t create these Islamists – but it helped lay the foundation for their […]
David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, […]
Video: What’s the Definition of “Traditional Marriage” in the Bible and the West?
Additional Reading Divorce: Islam Versus Christianity Continuing to Build the Case for Utilitarian Value of the Teachings of Islam Neither with the Islamophobes, Nor with the Islamists or the Islamomaniacs
Assimilating the 44 Million Muslims in Europe; A Collection of Articles
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for […]
A Californian Muslim woman develops phone app to feed almost 600,000 homeless people
Epigraph: And they feed, for love of Allah, the poor, the orphan, and the prisoner, saying, ‘We feed you for Allah’s pleasure only. We desire no reward nor thanks from […]
The Muslim Times’ Response to US Supreme Court’s Legalizing of Gay Marriage
US Supreme Court decided in favor of gay marriage and legalized it on June 26, 2015 Gay Marriage: A Christian Response Source: The Huffington Post By Barbara Kay Lundblad; Ordained […]
The Muslim Times' Response to US Supreme Court's Legalizing of Gay Marriage
US Supreme Court decided in favor of gay marriage and legalized it on June 26, 2015 Gay Marriage: A Christian Response Source: The Huffington Post By Barbara Kay Lundblad; Ordained […]
It’s not the religion that creates terrorists, it’s the politics
By Giles Fraser, The Guardian The radicalisation hypothesis steers us away from the real causes of terrorism – and enables the west to maintain its denial about a role in […]