SJ-R.com: Religion is the cause of wars and division, according to critics such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. But what if religion itself is not to blame, but the personality of the believer? Oddly enough, the issue of sexual compatibility sparked my insight. Stay with me, and […]
Dawn: KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, a senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was murdered in the early hours of Thursday, in Karachi. According to police, Razvi’s body was found […]
Rights group Amnesty International demanded on Wednesday that Indonesian authorities drop blasphemy charges against Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader displaced from his village in East Java’s Madura Island, who is […]
Pakteahouse: Maudood A. Bhatti: I was born a Muslim. Until the second amendment was passed in Pakistan’s constitution in 1974, I remained a legal Muslim. I was very young when this […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
Source: swissinfo.ch Following controversy over the degree and content of sexual education in primary schools, a cross-party committee has launched a people’s initiative on the issue. The campaign, under the […]
Huff Post A beef festival organized by Dalit students at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India on April 15th erupted into violence, the BBC reports. About 100 members of the Hindu right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) protested the festival, leading to five injuries according to The Hindu report. ABVP protested the beef festival on the ground that […]
Source: scotsman.com RIGHT-wing fanatic Anders Breivik sees himself as a 21st- century crusader battling against Islam in Europe. A psychiatric assessment found him to be psychotic and suffering from paranoid […]
Express News: LAHORE: An elderly man, recently released from prison after acquittal by the court on proving innocent in a blasphemy case, was shot dead by the complainant in the Farooqabad […]
Menmedia.com: Amy Glendinning: A major new mosque to serve Muslims across the region is set to open within weeks after a three-year building project. The £1m Darul Aman Mosque in Moss Side, […]
Source: yorkregion.com If you want to donate blood, you will have a chance at one of the largest single blood donation clinics in Canada, right here in Vaughan. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is hosting their 10th annual blood donation clinic April 28 in partnership with Canadian Blood Services. The […]
Source:AsiaNews.it A great French Muslim philosopher asks whether salafist violence – like that which killed the children of Jewish school in Toulouse – is not a symptom of something deeply wrong with the Muslim tradition. A religion that has closed in on itself. To renew Islam today, the challenge of modernity […]
Huff Post HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan — Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pakistan. The unassuming 62-year-old tending to the shoes is […]
Dailytimes: Syed Kamran Hashmi: These politically motivated religious columns yield benefits to the author socially and reward the politician in the polls He starts his essay with a Quranic verse […]
Huff Post The word wisdom is used frequently every day, whether it is spoken and heard or written and read. Yet it is debatable, in my opinion, if most of […]
The Telegraph: Go to the British Museum’s Hajj exhibition if you want a close-up look at Egyptian textiles and medieval Turkish manuscripts. But if you want to find out the truth about […]
The Barrie Examiner: By Maidah Ahmad (Re: ‘Death penalty won’t solve anything’ in the March 28 edition of the Examiner) The writer’s letter promoting Christian philosophy of justice and punishment […]
Adults can’t seem to figure out the peace thing, but how about Israeli and Canadian kids—with Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu backgrounds—who spent two weeks with each other at camp? […]
Express Tribune: Human rights activists have criticised the National Database and Registration Authority’s (NADRA) apparent policy to refuse to change ‘Islam’ as a person’s religion in their records. MPA Rana […]
Eurasiareview.com: By Murad Khan: The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the […]