If Religion is about Spiritual Salvation, Why do We Need Queen Bees?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Catholic Church does not allow women priests and hardly any Muslim group or sect allows for women […]
Meditation is common across many religious groups in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND CONRAD HACKETT In popular culture, meditation often is associated with Eastern spirituality and its secular offshoots, such as mindfulness. But substantial shares of Americans of […]
The Serenity Prayer: One of the Best Prayers
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years […]
Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’
Source: The New York Times By EMMA GREEN A word of advice to the religiously curious: Don’t trust any history of God that has only 171 pages of text. Reza Aslan’s […]
BBC to increase religious coverage to better represent all faiths
Source: The Guardian BY Nicola Slawson The BBC is set to increase its coverage of religions after a year-long review found that people of all faiths were “often absent, poorly presented or […]
J.K. Rowling Suggests To Roy Moore That God Is A Black Woman
Source: Huffington Post The author responded to Moore’s claim that “God is always in control.” By Elyse Wanshel Author J.K. Rowling was among the many thrilled by Democrat Doug Jones’ victory […]
Americans Say Religious Aspects of Christmas Are Declining in Public Life
Source: Pew Research Center Shrinking majority believe biblical account of birth of Jesus depicts actual events Representation of Christmas Nativity scene. (Photoillustration by iStock.com/lukbar) As long-simmering debates continue over how […]
USA: Christian Lawmaker Kills Himself After Sexual Assault Allegations
DECEMBER 14, 2017 BY MICHAEL STONE image: http://ntvcld-a.akamaihd.net/image/upload/w_300,h_187,c_fill,g_auto:text,f_auto,fl_lossy,e_sharpen:70/assets/6E3075453F56477FA971314FF09984CD.png Dan Johnson, a conservative Christian pastor and Kentucky State lawmaker accused of sexual assault, shot and killed himself Wednesday. Rep. Johnson was under investigation for the alleged sexual molestation of a teenage girl. He denied the allegations and blamed the media and Satan for his […]
Pope says Satan is More Intelligent than Humans & the Muslim Times’ Response
Pope says Satan is more intelligent than humans – We believe he is not a person but only a personification of our id or negative tendencies Source: The Express Tribune […]
Religious Bias Is Distorting American Foreign Policy
Source: The Atlantic The administration is imperiling the very minority communities it claims to want to protect. Egyptian Christians touch a blood-splattered image of Jesus Christ, inside the Coptic Orthodox […]
Motives in Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack: Religion and Revenge
Source: The New York Times By NOUR YOUSSEF CAIRO — One day in early November, a small group of elders in a dusty town in the northern Sinai Peninsula handed over […]
Religion can have same effect on the brain as taking drugs, study finds
Source: Independent By Caroline Mortimer Religious experiences have a similar effect on the brain as taking drugs, according to a new study. Scientists at the University of Utah used MRI scans […]
Americans Who Identify As Spiritual Feel More Gratitude And Life Satisfaction
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new study released Monday by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Florida State University found that Americans who identify as spiritual report […]
Proposal to infuse religion with state tax dollars advances
Source: TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT* BY James Call, Democrat Capitol Reporter A state constitution review panel Wednesday approved a proposal that could overturn the state’s high court on private school vouchers. The Constitution […]
A Trump-like politician in Brazil could snag the support of a powerful religious group: evangelicals
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey November 28 at 10:11 AM Brazilian Congressman Jair Bolsonaro (Sebastiao Moreira/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) SÃO PAULO — Corruption scandals that have landed several of Brazil’s leading politicians […]
Supreme Court won’t take Texas case over student-led prayer
Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place a court ruling that a Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without […]
The rise and rise of ‘halal’ business
Source: Al Jazeera By Shafik Mandhai & Ayseba Umutlu 26 Nov 2017 Halal industries are expected to be worth $3.7 trillion by 2019 [Reuters]When Kerim Ture placed his first order […]
You don’t need to look much further than the Quran for proof that Islam is a peaceful religion
Source: Independent By Pooyan Fakhraei The so-called Jihadi groups, which consist of extremist Muslims of every faction: ranging from Salafis, Wahhabis, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Isis and many more, consider themselves as advocates of True Islam. These terrorists claim that the Paris, London and New York attacks are supported and justified by the […]
The Purpose And Context Of The Qur’an
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Naseef, an American Muslim The Qur’an – like all other texts – can only be properly understood by understanding the purpose of its author and […]