Islamic perspective on orientation issues
The Holy Quran does not say to go out and kill gay people On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others […]
DC’s Catholic archbishop: People ask me why religion matters today. I tell them we’d be a mess without it.
Source: The Washington Post By Cardinal Donald Wuerl A number of years ago I was invited to speak at a conference at Harvard University. At the conclusion of my presentation […]
Trends in Global Restrictions on Religion
Source: Pew Research Center Worldwide, both government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion decreased modestly from 2013 to 2014 despite a rise in religion-related terrorism, according to Pew […]
Trump: We don’t know ‘about Hillary in terms of religion’
Source: Associated Press By JILL COLVIN Clergy leaders with PICO (People Improving Communities through Organizing) Action Fund and their… Read more NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Donald Trump appeared to […]
Inside Trump’s Closed-Door Meeting, Held To Reassure ‘The Evangelicals’
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON Most Donald Trump events kick off with music from Elton John or the Rolling Stones at deafening volumes. But praise choruses ruled the day Tuesday as […]
When Religion Is Hijacked By Hate
Source: Huffington Post By Rev. Susan Russell; Episcopal priest and activist from Pasadena, Calif. It has become so predictable that you can practically set your clock by it. I’m talking about the point after a national trauma when actual Christianity gets hijacked by someone spewing the kind of hateful, harmful […]
Republicans Prefer Blunt Talk About Islamic Extremism, Democrats Favor Caution
Source: Pew Research Center Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to justify their actions Half of Americans say the next president should be careful not to criticize Islam as a whole when speaking about Islamic extremists, while four-in-ten want the next president […]
How Science Is Resurrecting the Religious Imagination
Huff Post: As far as we know, there is no cure for death, no ingenious algorithm that can program the mysterious breath which at first gives life its form and then corrodes and withers it. It is in this breathing space between womb and tomb that we love, long and […]
Colleges Should Be Nurturing Interfaith Leaders
Source: Chronicle By Eboo Patel, who is founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and author of the forthcoming bookInterfaith Leadership: A Primer, by Beacon Press, August 2016 I recently met […]
I’ve studied radicalization – and Islamophobia often plants the seed
Source: The Guardian: By Sarah Lyons-Padilla, who is a research scientist at Stanford SPARQ: Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions The evidence shows that alienating an entire religious community, as Donald […]
Religious roots of hatred resurface in Orlando
Source: RNS By Yonat Shimron (RNS) One year after the Supreme Court ruled that gays can legally marry across the country, and at a time when most polls show a majority […]
Loving Your Neighbor, Even When Their God Doesn’t Look Like Yours
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer R. Breedon Human Rights Analyst & Foreign Policy Expert Focused on Religious Extremist Ideology & International Law “We pray for the souls of the Islamic State militants that killed our families. We know they are motivated by evil and pray they can be freed.” I will […]
Canadian Muslims launch ‘Fast with a Muslim Friend’
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada has launched a national campaign titled “Fast with a Muslim Friend.” Canadians can partake in this unique experience by visiting http://www.FastWithMuslims.com This annual campaign allows […]
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau hosts Iftar for Muslim MPs
Justin Trudeau on Facebook: “It was a pleasure to celebrate Iftar and break the first Ramadan fast with Muslim members of our caucus last night.”
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Ramadan
Ottawa, Ontario 5 June 2016 The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Ramadan: “Muslims in Canada and around the world will embark upon a month-long spiritual […]
Britain Is Losing Its Religion, or at Least Its Official One
Source: The New York Times By ALAN COWELL LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely […]
Humanism and morality have cast off religion
theguardian — The Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (1444/5-1510). ‘The huge decline in western Christianity has a much simpler root cause: the perceived claims of what people see as orthodox belief are, literally, incredible to the modern mind’, writes Fr Alec Mitchell. Photograph: Getty Images Your editorial (Imagine no […]
Schools take in Tokyo mosque to get unbiased glimpse of Islam
Source: Japan Times A recent wave of terror has fueled anti-Muslim hostility worldwide, fostering a negative image of Islam — a faith still unfamiliar in Japan. But Japan’s youth […]
Senior EU lawyer backs workplace ban on Muslim headscarves
Source: The Guardian By Jennifer Rankin in Brussels Companies should be free to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves at work if they have a general policy barring all religious and […]
Seven Reasons Why European Agnostics and Atheists Should Consider Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A recent article in Huffington Post, by Jack Sommers, Assistant News Editor, Huffington Post UK, Christians Outnumbered […]