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 […]
Paul Ryan: There Will Be No Religious Test For Syrian Refugees
Source: Huffington Post By Laura Barron-Lopez Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Legislation to restrict the flow of Syrian refugees into the United States will not include a religious test, […]
The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God
By Giles Fraser, South London priest. Guardian columnist and Editorial Board. Visiting Professor at the LSE. Guardian: The so-called “masters of suspicion”, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would […]
Video: The Story of God With Morgan Freeman – Who Is God?
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman S01E03 | Who is God God of Islam: God of Nature and the Creator of our Universe Epigraph: Allah has created the heavens […]
Should doctors start prescribing religion for their patients?
Source: The Irish Times By Muiris Houston I suspect even the most irreligious of us may mutter a silent prayer when faced by catastrophe or major illness. But is there any […]
President Obama just acknowledged this Buddhist holiday for the first time
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Presidents routinely publish statements acknowledging every sort of holiday and commemorative occasion. In the past month alone, President Obama has issued proclamations on everything […]
Vadodara’s Jama Masjid claims to have world’s largest Quran
Source: Hindustan Times The Jama Masjid in Gujarat’s Vadodara has added another feather to its cap with the claim of having the biggest Quran in the world. The length and […]
Survey suggests majority of Britons think Islam is not compatible with British values
Source: BBC The majority of Britons believe Islam is not compatible with British values, a poll suggests. The survey’s also found almost a third of those questioned believe Islam is […]
Pope Francis urges France to respect Muslim women’s right to wear hijab
Source: Albawaba News Pope Francis has urged France to respect the right of Muslim women to profess their faith and wear the hijab just like Christians are allowed to wear […]