Three Simple Truths About Terror, Religion, and Islam
Huff Post: by Clay Farris Naff One: Terrorism is the illusion of power. It only becomes powerful when people fall for it. Picture a magician who performs a variation on […]
Religious ‘nones’ are not only growing, they’re becoming more secular
Source: Pew Research Center Religious “nones” are not only growing as a share of the U.S. population, but they are becoming more secular over time by a variety of measures, a fact that also is helping to make the U.S. public overall somewhat less religious, according to surveys done as […]
Why the Latest Study Showing ‘Religious’ Children are Less Moral is Just Bad Science
Source: Huffington Post Word is out. Belief in God will make your children less moral people, so say researchers from the University of Chicago. It’s hit the news too, and […]
What Does the Constitution Say About a Praying High School Football Coach?
Source: Slate High school football coach Joe Kennedy has made national news for refusing to stop praying on the field at the end of games. Last week, Kennedy, a coach […]
It’s Time to Let Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs Join the Military
Source: The Daily Beast Despite granting waivers to allow minorities to maintain their religious dress while serving, military policy still keeps most of them out. But the successes of the […]
Paradise Polled: Americans and the Afterlife
Source: Huffington Post By Kathleen Weldon; Research Coordinator for the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at UConn Since the genesis of modern polling, the American public has been asked about […]
Happy Diwali to all our Hindu readers and what is the Muslim Times doing for you
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy and a prosperous Diwali to all our Hindu, Sikh and Jain […]
What is Diwali and what are the best ways to celebrate the 2015 festival in the UK tonight?
Source: The Telegraph Hindus celebrate the ‘festival of lights’ this week, with Diwali Day on November 11. We look at the story behind the celebration, and the UK’s best events […]
Diwali: The Threshold Light in the Midst of Darkness
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 […]
Parents to take on government over religious studies GCSE
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 […]
Study Shows Non-Religious Kids Are More Altruistic and Generous Than Religious Ones
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 […]
Respecting religious freedom has become more complex, Tim Wilson says
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 […]
Is Religiosity Declining Or Simply Transforming?
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 […]
Russian court reverses ruling recognizing Muslim book as extremist
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”
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 […]
A Year with the Quran- If the Oceans Were Ink……
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 […]
How Reluctance to Debate Religion Is Compounding Problems
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. […]
The Witches: What Really Happened In Salem In 1692 — An All Together Conversation With Stacy Schiff
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 […]
Evolution vs. Creation: Most Americans Think Science, Religion Conflict
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 […]
Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs review
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 […]