The Real Objective of Mob Violence Against Muslims in India
Source: The New Yorker By Isaac Chotiner, who is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he is the principal contributor to Q. & A., a series of interviews […]
How many Hindus live in Muslim countries?
Source: Facebook 6.3 million Hindus live and work in Saudi Arabia. 1.6 million in Oman. 1.1 million in Kuwait. 0.9 million in Bahrain. 1.3 million in Qatar 9.0million in UAE! […]
Want to know more about Muslims and Islam? We’ve got an email course for you
Source: Pew Research Centre By Alan Cooperman With an estimated population of 1.8 billion, Muslims are the world’s second-largest religious group, after Christians. But our surveys have found that about half of Americans – as well as most Western Europeans – say they know little or nothing about Islam. Pew […]
Over 400 Dalits Converted to Islam
The sudden spate of conversions of Dalits to Islam has been attributed to a wall collapse incident in Mettupalayam, where 17 people lost their lives. By Poornima Murali | CNN-News18 […]
Is absolute secularism the only path to Islamic modernity?
Source: Daily Times By Saad Hafiz The tussle between religion and modernity hasn’t been confined to Islam. Western civilization also experienced a similar tug-of-war. The West chose the path of […]
Why I converted to Islam and buried my Hindu identity: Dalit Camera founder
Source: The Print By Raees Mohammed Periyar had suggested Ambedkar convert to Islam. After years of research, I too found Islam to be the only religion in India that could […]
What’s the Church’s relationship with Islam?
Source: The Catholic Spirit By Maria Wiering Scholar: Church urges Catholics to engage in dialogue, cooperation with Muslims on peace and social justice issues Lonsdale priest Father Nick VanDenBroeke apologized […]
Seven Abrahamic influences on contemporary Hinduism
Source: Mumbai Mirror By Devdutt Pattanaik Once you believe in the popular misconception that ‘all religions are the same’, you stop noticing that there is a unique idea that separates […]
Corona-virus Reminds Once Again: The Indispensable God-hypothesis
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is an article describing the Transcendent, yet Personal God of the Abrahamic Faiths in the present […]
“Rather Turkish Than Pope”, European Islam Already Exists For Centuries
Source: Muslim Matters By Omar Sayadi Changing the factual past in an attempt to gain political authority is one of the paradoxes of modern populism, where the target audience is […]
Iceland Bans Or Restricts These Religious Practices
Source: Patheos Iceland is a North Atlantic island country. Originally settled by Vikings, this nation was far enough away from Europe and North America to develop without too much interference. […]
The white nationalist fantasy of ancient Christian-Muslim conflict would get an ‘F’ in history class
Source: Raw Story By Tony Keddie is Assistant Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at the University of British Columbia. When I first heard the tragic news of the […]
Religious freedom means standing up for another person’s beliefs
Source: The Hill By Zeenat Rahman, Today is National Religious Freedom Day, the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a statute written by Thomas Jefferson […]
Trump To Reinforce Protections For Prayer In Schools
Source: NPR By Franco Ordoñez President Trump will use the power of his office to empower students who want to pray in their schools — and remind public schools they […]
Celebrities you might not have known are actually Muslim
Source: The Tribune Currently, there are an estimated 1.8 billion Muslims in the world, which is roughly 24 percent of the global citizenry. This makes up a majority of the […]
Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition
Source: The Guardian By Reverend William Barber No one who has read US history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump but it also tells us how their undoing will inevitably come ast Friday the Trump 2020 campaign held its first rally at a megachurch. King Jesus […]
‘He was sent to us’: at church rally, evangelicals worship God and Trump
Friday’s rally recognized Trump’s need to retain the loyalty of the evangelical voting bloc that propelled him to victory in 2016 Richard Luscombe in Miami @richlusc Sat 4 Jan 2020 They came to pray with their president, though in truth many came just to worship him. Donald Trump’s Friday […]
Pope Francis apologises after slapping woman’s hand
Pontiff admits ‘sometime even I lose patience’, referring to incident with pilgrim at Vatican Source: The Guardian Pope Francis has apologised after slapping a woman’s hand as he greeted pilgrims […]
3,000 Dalits in Tamil Nadu to convert to Islam over ‘govt inaction after caste wall’ collapse
Source: The Print By Rohini Swamy Dalits say they will convert to Islam in phases. The decision comes weeks after a wall, built to keep them separated from OBCs, collapsed, […]
Mecca 1979: The mosque siege that changed the course of Saudi history
Source: BBC It’s four decades since a charismatic preacher and his followers staged an armed takeover of the Grand Mosque of Mecca and the holiest place in Islam became a […]