Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
Source: Christian Science Monitor By Jeremy Ravinsky, Correspondent and Ariel Zirulnick, Staff writer Throughout the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims will fast from dawn until dusk. Here are 10 facts to […]
Source: The Venture Beat: By John Koetsier Non-Muslims may never enter the city of Mecca or see the mysterious Kaabah, Islam’s most sacred building. But Google’s now giving you a […]
by Sheikh Ali Gomaa, Former Grand Mufti of Egypt Terrorism cannot be born of religion. Terrorism is the product of corrupt minds, hardened hearts, and arrogant egos, and corruption, destruction, […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him, […]
The Huffington Post: The past twenty years have seen tremendous engagement around racial, cultural, and gender diversity. Millenials (ages 18-29) are generally knowledgeable about such identity differences and far better […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD William Lane Craig is one of the foremost Christian apologists, enjoying tremendous following among the Protestant Christians in USA and UK. William […]
The Washington Post: By Michelle Boorstein, Each morning and night, Sigfried Gold drops to his knees on the beige carpeting of his bedroom, lowers his forehead to the floor and […]
“If we think you’re praying, you’ll be arrested,” the Israeli cop said impatiently as we walked up the Mughrabi Bridge, almost like a flight attendant reminding a delinquent passenger to […]
Promoted Post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Author of The Wrong Kind of Muslim Hindus worldwide […]
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that Islam should be welcomed as a family member in Europe, not as a guest. ‘Europe must see Islam […]
1. Barmakid Family (600s-900s) The Barmakids were a family of Buddhist administrators from the city of Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan. When the Umayyad Caliphate conquered the area in […]
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. (Al Quran 10:37) Will they not, then, meditate upon the Qur’an? Had it been from […]
Source: Digital Journal By John Thomas Didymus. The moral-ethical dimension arises from the predictable tendency when acting on the problem, armed with a new technology, to apply to the label […]
Quote of the Day, by David Hume: When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, […]
Source: Tablet: The first graduating class at Yeshivat Maharat may not have the title, but they do have jobs at Orthodox synagogues On June 16, three Jewish women will be […]
CTV: Prayers by a liberal Jewish women’s group at a key Jerusalem holy site passed without incident Sunday, in contrast to violent scuffles with ultra-Orthodox protesters a month ago. […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Contrasting the Christian and the Muslim concept of hell Discussion of Hell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. For other uses, see Hell (disambiguation). See also: Hell in Christian beliefs, Harrowing of Hell, and Hades Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad […]
The Jakarta Post: In reference to the news report “Ministries reaffirm curbs on Ahmadiyah” published in The Jakarta Post on May 31, the report is in connection with an event […]
Source: Huffington Post By Nathan Lean: Editor-in-Chief, Aslan Media; Author There is something crudely colonial about the words of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who responded to the killing of […]