West Java Governor Signs Deal With FPI Banning Ahmadiyah
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
“The invention of the Jewish people”
The Middle East Monitor: The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv…… Sand argues […]
A religious Canada Strong and free
Source: National Post This week, in the aptly named Maple, part of the sprawling suburbs in the northern Greater Toronto Area, the prime minister came to announce the establishment of […]
Indonesia to Host Islam-Christianity Conference
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia will host a conference of Asian Muslim and Christian leaders from Feb. 26 to March 1, a report said on Wednesday. Under the theme “Bringing a […]
4 questions about Canada’s new Office of Religious Freedom
CBS News: What will the Office of Religious Freedom do? Its mandate is to promote freedom of religion or belief. The government says this promotion will be a Canadian “foreign […]
Prime Minister Harper’s tribute to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Prime Minster Stephen Harper speaks at the unveiling ceremony of the Office of Religious Freedom at the Aiwan e Tahir Hall of the Ahmadiyya Bait ul Islam Mosque, Maple, Ontario, […]
Man sentenced for leaving severed pig’s head outside Muslim place of worship
The Guardian; An office worker who left a severed pig’s head outside a Muslim place of worship on Boxing Day has been spared jail. Liam Ferrar was sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for a year, after a court heard he was disgusted by his actions and had written a […]
Islam’s path to Africa
The Jerusalem Post: The more radical Islamic forces are on the march. Many of the victims of jihad are now in Africa, but they will probably not be the last. […]
This column will change your life: do you believe in brainwashing?
theguardian: Oliver Burkeman. There isn’t a secret switch that lets villains control your thoughts; instead, there are TV ads and manipulative friends and guilt-inducing religions, and a million other ways in which we influence, and are influenced, all the time. No wonder psychologists shun the term “brainwashing” these days. It […]
Groups threaten to attack mosque, church
The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) released a statement on Friday saying that the Bekasi administration had violated the law in forbidding the Ahmadis from worshipping in their mosque. The […]
Geert Wilders hatreds have no place in Australia.
Jews, Christians and Muslims express support for multifaith society Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia media release: JCMA, founded in 2003, is committed to the promotion of understanding, mutual respect […]
Catholic linguistics
Source: The Economist: BENEDICT XVI became the first Pope to abdicate the papacy since 1415 when he announced his decision to retire at the end of February, saying that he is too old to continue. In many ways he has been a reformer. @Pontifex, the Pope’s official English-language Twitter feed, […]
Russian Muslims challenge law banning hijabs in school
RAPSI: A court in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia is looking into a lawsuit against the new school uniform requirements which include a ban on wearing head dresses, such […]
The Vatican’s woes God’s bankers A beleaguered papacy is embroiled in intrigue. Some scent a succession struggle
Source: The Economist: God’s bankers FEW things annoy Vatican officials more than lurid novels that depict the papacy as the secretive heart of a global conspiracy. Pope Benedict XVI’s most senior official, his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, this month accused journalists of trying to imitate the American […]
Catholicism’s Exclusive Claim to Salvation
“Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds […]
Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism?
“Being Muslim keeps me from wanting to impress others and gives me more personal confidence” “I felt Chantelle had more freedom than I did by covering herself, instead of letting […]
Don’t condemn Islam for the actions of a few corrupt rulers
Duluth News Tribune: Imran Hayee. The Quran champions religious freedom in these remarkable words, “There is no compulsion in religion.” It also promotes peaceful coexistence by pronouncing, “For you, your religion, and for me, my religion.” The Quran does not stipulate any secular punishment for apostasy and leaves the matter […]
Yearly conversions to Islam double in France over 25 years: Report
Yearly conversions to Islam have doubled in France over the past 25 years, a report says. Press TV: Bernard Godard, an official in charge of religious issues at the French […]
New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious People to Mental Disorder
People who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder Written by Elizabeth Drescher British psychiatry researchers recently stirred the […]
British court opens door to Sharia divorces
theaustralian.com: THE prospect of divorce cases in Britain being settled by sharia and religious courts has been opened up by a landmark legal decision. A Jewish couple have had their […]