Source: Huffington Post By Anantanand Rambachan; Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College. Latest book,”A Hindu Theology of Liberation.” The word “Diwali” means an arrangement or a row of lights. Traditionally, Diwali […]
Source: The Guardian A group of parents and their children are to go to court to challenge the government’s decision to exclude non-religious world views from the new religious studies […]
Source: Time A new study published by Current Biology (hat tip: OregonLive) explores the degree to which religion is linked to children’s generosity to strangers. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and prosocial behavior, the relation between religiosity and morality is a contentious one,” researchers […]
Source: The Guardian The Coalition-appointed human rights commissioner, Tim Wilson, says the challenge of respecting religious freedom is becoming more complex, but that preserving religious freedom in a pluralistic multi-faith […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kira Brekke; Associate Editor, HuffPost Live The current revolution in religiosity is making faith more accessible. As studies indicate that the American public is becoming less religious, Diana Butler […]
RT: A court in the Russian Far East has canceled the verdict that recognized an Islamic book with abstracts from the Koran as ‘extremist material’, which caused outrage from the […]
Israel’s Nine Fictional Claims presented to the UN Security Council. Israel is the Victim of “Palestinian Terror” By Middle East Monitor Global Research, October 24, 2015 Middle East Monitor 21 October 2015 Region: Middle East & North Africa Theme: United Nations On 16 October 2015, Israeli Ambassador Roet addressed the […]
If the Oceans Were Ink An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran By Carla Power American writer Carla Power and a madrasah-trained sheikh debated Islam’s […]
Source : Huffington post By Raza Habib Raja I have often been much more amazed not at the religious fanaticism of the few, but at passivity of the moderate majority. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush; Executive Editor Of Global Spirituality and Religion, The Huffington Post Over nine months in the year 1692, 14 women and five men were executed in […]
VOA: A majority of Americans, 59 percent, believe science often conflicts with religion, while 38 percent say the two areas are mostly compatible The most religious Americans are less likely […]
The Guardian, British Museum, London Neil MacGregor’s swansong as director of the British Museum is a brilliant challenge to the modern western belief in unbelief: the cosy assumption that all sensible people are secular rationalists now. It confronts our inability to cope with a world in which religion is still […]
The Huffington Post: We are at war with Islam. Or so many people would like the world to believe. Whether it’s the Islamic State or anti-Islam protestors across the U.S, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Raza Habib Raja Freelance journalist, PhD Student First of all, let me make it clear that I am NOT an Ahmadi. This clarification is essential […]
The Guardian: Supreme court says Mumtaz Qadri should be executed for shooting dead Punjab governor who backed reform of country’s hardline blasphemy laws A former police bodyguard revered as a […]
The Qur’an teaches us that, unlike other creatures, the modern humans who are anthropologically classified as Homo sapiens sapiens have been created to be Allah’s Vice-regents (deputies or agents) on […]
Suggested Reading Ten Raised to Five Hundred Reasons for Our Gracious God Longing for consolation: A Dilemma for Dawkins Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran God of […]
By Atif Rashid, UK We’re all looking for it – success, but what is it and how can we get there? When the veils, garbs and blindness of success, fame and money are lifted, a person is left wondering, ‘is that it’? Introspection is a worthy, noble thing. Without it […]
London: A huge fire today broke out at a mosque in south London. Fire crews were called to tackle the blaze at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden just after midday. More than 58 firefighters […]
The international conference on the Holy Qur’an and Science 2015 highlights novel research carried out on the Holy Qur’an to discover the treasures buried in the Holy Book. The speakers […]