The French Motto Engraved in the Holy Qur’an 1400 Years Ago
By Talha Rashid, France for Review of Religions The Grand Mosque of Paris was built as a tribute to the tens of thousands of Muslim who died whilst fighting for […]
How Cognitive Bias Can Explain Post-Truth
By: Lee McIntyre Our built-in biases help explain our post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. o say that facts are less […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection to promote secularism and to deaccelerate sectarianism
Two Viruses; Worse than COVID Political leaders using religion….. Religious leaders playing politics — Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) January 18, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Suggested Reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief […]
Religion continues to decline in Switzerland
SOURCE: LE NEWS Statistics for 2019 show that 30% of Switzerland’s residents belong to no religion. As recently as 1960 the same figure was less than 1%. The percentage believing […]
Jonathan Haidt’s Ted Talk: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: Why is it so loved?
Source: BBC By Shoku Amirani & Stephanie Hegarty Kahlil Gibran is said to be one of the world’s bestselling poets, and his life has inspired a play touring the UK […]
Academy Award Winning Movie Spotlight: What Can Go Wrong with Organized Religion?
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.[5][6] The film follows The Boston Globe‘s “Spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States,[7] and its investigation into […]
President Elect Biden’s Catholicism and Separation of Church and State
MR. BIDEN AND THE MATTER OF SCANDAL By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Readers may recall that during the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry led the Democratic ticket. As a […]
India’s Most Populous State Bans Muslim-Hindu Marriage or ‘Love-Jihad’
Why India’s Most Populous State Just Passed a Law Inspired by an Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theory Source: Time BY BILLY PERRIGO India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, introduced a law outlawing so-called “Love […]
PM Imran Khan Orders Investigation into Murders of Ahmadis and Says Justice will Prevail.
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Ahmadi doctor killed, three others injured in Nankana Sahib Source: Samaa […]
Video: Why Won’t They Listen? ‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Source: New York Times Book review by William Saletan You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think […]
If We give up Islamism and Jewish and Christian Sharia in State Affairs, What is Left is Human Rights and Coexistence
Suggested Reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, for the best understanding of personal religion in the 21st century My main suggestion to the open minded […]
Austria, Not France, Is the Model for Europe’s Crackdown on Islamists
Source: Foreign Policy As tragic as it was, the terrorist attack in Vienna on Nov. 2 was not a major surprise for Europe’s counterterrorism experts. The events in Vienna and, […]
Austria seeks to criminalise ‘political Islam’ as it unveils broad new anti-terror measures
Proposals include life sentences for those convicted of terror offences and criminalising political activity that encourages ‘extremism’ Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says measures target both terror suspects and ideology that […]
Organized Religion: Chilling find shows how Henry VIII planned every detail of Boleyn beheading
Source: The Guardian By Dalya Alberge It is a Tudor warrant book, one of many in the National Archives, filled with bureaucratic minutiae relating to 16th-century crimes. But this one […]
Debate by Intelligence Squared: The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World
Suggested Reading for the best understanding of personal religion in the 21st century Are Religions Pluralistic or Myopic and Parochial? I am a Jew, a Catholic, a Christian and a Muslim; […]
Michigan’s clergy abuse probe identifies 454 accused priests, 811 victims
By Justine Lofton | jlofton@mlive.com LANSING, MI – A two-year investigation into sexual abuse in Michigan’s Catholic churches has, so far, identified 454 accused priests and 811 victims, and led to […]
Debate: Human Morality, Monotheism and Organized Religion?
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times for understanding morality and promoting secularism in every country of the world Only 15% of the French Believe […]
Churches knew of allegations against notorious paedophile priests, royal commission says
Source: The Guardian By Melissa Davey The Anglican and Catholic churches missed crucial opportunities to stop them abusing other children, unredacted reports find The Anglican and Catholic churches knew about […]
Organized Religion: U.S. judge denies request to exempt Catholic churches from New York coronavirus limits
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday rejected a request from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to void New York state’s limits on religious […]
