Sunday is a good day to drive to Maaloula. There are fig and olive trees and grapes by the road and, for a time, you can forget that Syria is enduring an epic tragedy. True, you mustn’t turn right to Tell, where the Syrian Arab Army are having a spot […]
First something about the big picture, atheists are right in exposing the irrationality of the Christian dogma. However, the Christians are right in as far as their claim that there needs […]
Egypt’s lifting of an implicit ban on veiled TV anchors is seen as an end to discrimination, but some worry it could lead to limits on women’s freedoms. By Reem […]
Religion and government must remain separate Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: Isn’t that clear enough to the right wing evangelical Republican Party? No individual should be denied belief in whatever form of worship or lack of believing in organized […]
Source: Business Recorder ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) Justice ( Retd) Rana Bhagwandas has said that Sindh has always remained the land of peace, progress, amity, human and interfaith harmony. He was speaking at the launching ceremony of a booklet titled, ” Sufi Shah Inayat- a […]
Source: The Assam Tribune Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 26 – At a stone’s throw away from the river that is considered a grand witness to Assam’s history and culture, two structures stand tall to mark the harmonious coexistence of two faiths. Locals bow their heads to each, and agree that […]
Source: The News Islamabad: The Pakistan Interfaith League (PIL) Chairman Sajid Ishaq held a meeting with the Special Group formed to monitor the proceedings of the Rimsha Masih blasphemy case here on Wednesday afternoon. The Special Group was formed at a joint consultative session of the Pakistan Interfaith League (PIL) […]
If you want consistent and consistently enforce the blasphemy laws, among others in Article 156a of the Criminal Code, then the scholars who gave fatwa to declare Shiite, Ahmadiyya, etc […]
Source: Two Cirles New Delhi: Himself Gandhian, Faisal Khan of Khudai Khidmatgar is sad that even Gandhians are not working to establish peace and communal harmony in Assam. Khan, who has just returned after five-day visit to violence-hit areas of the state, told TCN that communal harmony is the primary […]
Source: The News Jacobabad residents were stunned to see a Muslim serving the Hindu community at the Shivli Temple during the last week of the holy Muslim month of Ramazan. Khurshid Khan, a senior lawyer from Peshawar who till recently served as deputy attorney general of Pakistan, served the Hindu […]
Source: Gulf News A highly respected Islamic center should take the responsibility to issue a cool and rational statement after the next wilful or even accidental burning of the Quran I am not sure when the first incident of burning or desecrating the Quran occurred. I am even less sure […]
Yanto Soegiarto | August 29, 2012 JAKARTA GLOBE It is so sad to see Indonesia steadily becoming a pariah country. There are simply too many evils coupled with weak leadership which in turn produces prevalent cynicism and apathy in this country. The attack on the Shia community in Karanggayam village […]
Express Tribune: By Feisal H Naqvi. Pakistan’s slow-motion slide into sectarian hell has, so far, met with studied silence from all the major political players. In the case of the PPP, the silence is mere cowardice. In the case of the PML-N and the PTI, the silence is calculated; a cold-blooded conclusion […]
(yes, of course, it is the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at). Group’s Israeli leader says aim was to show different face of Islam. By Revital Hovel HAARETZ ISRAEL Members of a Muslim […]
Source: Myanmar Times By Tim McLaughlin Volume 33, No. 641 August 27 – September 2, 2012 Ko Htuu Lou Rae with one of ‘COEXIST’ t-shirts he has created. Pic: Yadanar THE first screen-printing shop Ko Htuu Lou Rae visited refused to make his t-shirts. The workers looked at his design, […]
Source: Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD – All Pakistan Ulema Council and Pakistan Interfaith League on Monday formed an Alliance to promote Interfaith Harmony and Peace in the country and stand united to curb all acts of religious extremism. Both the parties decided to form a special committee for investigating the present situation regarding […]
Express Tribune: Imran Khan says Pakistan’s blasphemy law is necessary. He says it is a British law and thinks that in its absence, people would be lynched and there would be anarchy. The stern law, therefore, also helps those accused of blasphemy. Is he right? Let us consider the law. […]
(Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice […]
by Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times. Surrounded by hatred and fear in violence-hit western Assam, Jamaluddin Sheikh, 43, a relief camp inmate in the Muslim-majority Dhubri district, entrusted his 19-year-old daughter’s life to a Hindu he met for the first time at the camp and took an instant liking to. “I […]
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