Halloween is a festival celebrated around the world on 31st October. It is a day which has become commercialised, most people being unaware of its true origins. Instead, most associate Halloween with only pumpkins, scary costumes, bonfires and trick or treating. Societies go to great lengths to ensure that no one […]
Halloween exposes people to ‘sadism, sexual violence, torture’ Source/Credit: : Wednesday, October 26, 2011 , by B.Borg You may think it’s simply a spot of trick-or-treating but according to the Church’s Theological Commission, Halloween “runs contrary to the central belief of Christian eschatology”. As a Church, we are warning parents of Halloween’s […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily KUALA LUMPUR – About 5,000 Malaysian Muslims rallied at a stadium near Kuala Lumpur on Saturday in a move to defend their religion and protest against what they saw as a trend of proselytization among Muslims in the country. They were also pressing for new laws to penalize […]
Worship in peace Charles Lewis, National Post : The idea was first suggested in the midst of the federal election campaign, the kind of proposal that was politically astute because it targeted the religious ethnic communities the Conservatives needed to win a majority: A promised office of religious freedom that […]
The freedom of worship is central to the foundations of any modern nation. All Indonesians must have equal protection under the law if we are to take our rightful place alongside other developed nations. Economic growth alone does not define the true standing of a country. How it treats its […]
Until recently I thought that only Christianity had a big problem with enlightenment and science and that I have examined in many of my Google-knols, but, now I am becoming increasingly aware that the medieval Muslim scholars do not fair any better. What do I mean? Firstly, let me address […]
By ANDREW QUINN | REUTERS ARABBEWS DUSHANBE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tajikistan on Saturday that efforts to crack down on religious freedom might backfire and increase sympathy for radical views that could threaten stability in the Central Asian country. Clinton, who met Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon on […]
Bogor. Hundreds of men from a local Muslim hard-line group occupied the roadway in front of the GKI Yasmin church on Sunday, forcing congregation members to hold their service a kilometer away from their sealed building. The churchgoers have been staging prayers on the sidewalk outside their church for more […]
Book Review – Letter to a Christian Nation Introduction: Why Sam Harris Wrote Letter to a Christian Nation? In Letter to a Christian nation, Sam Harris makes a sneering, feeble and condescending attempt to demonstrate that religion is an imagination of human mind and the sooner humanity discards it, […]
by CLARISSA ROHRBACH The Mahmud Mosque invites on the weekend Swiss of any belief to discover Islam at a lecture at the Zurich Volkshaus. Imam Sadaqat Ahmed explains why this enlightement is necessary. Tagblatt of the City of Zurich: Sadaqat Ahmed, what do you want to achieve with this function? […]
So said Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the desert country of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a brief period and those who had been misguided through generations put on […]
By MUHAMMAD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Three men allegedly belonging to the Turki Al-Dandani terror cell told judges at a criminal court in Riyadh on Monday that preachers who issued takfiri (branding opponents “infidels”) religious edicts and encouraged youths to take part in jihad in Afghanistan should be arrested and brought to […]
Source of video / Courtesy: BBC Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is an hour and a half movie or documentary about […]
An interview with Zaenuda Ikhwanul Aziz from (the secretary of the legal committee of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah congregation (Jamaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia – JAI) is published by the Asian Human Rights Commission regarding the situation faced by Ahmadis in Indonesia.. How do you feel about what is happening to the Ahmadiyah […]
We are writing to raise our concerns about intimidation, threats and violence against several Ahmadiyya communities at the hands of certain religious groups and organizations, as well government officials in the province of West Java. These include attacks on the property of Ahmadiyya members, closure or takeover of Ahmadiyya places […]
Religious Extremism is destroying the society, debate conducted in a programme “Awam ki adalat – court of nation”. This debate is in Urdu; it is a clear manifestation of societies of Pakistan and of many countries. In the beginning of the programme 82% audiences voted that the society is being destroyed […]
Source / Courtesy: Council on Foreign Relations Author: Toni Johnson, Senior Staff Writer Updated: July 25, 2011 Since 9/11, Western Europe’s growing Muslim population has been the focus of debate on issues ranging from immigration policy to cultural identity to security. Several incidents in recent years have increased tensions between […]
By ARAB NEWS VIENNA/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Austria and Spain set up Thursday a new center for interfaith dialogue in Vienna. Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger signed the founding document Thursday along with his Spanish and Saudi counterparts Trinidad Jimenez and Prince Saud Al-Faisal. “The dialogue with and between religious communities […]