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 […]
Russian government asks parliament to rework bill on offending religion
By Reuters Staff The Russian government has asked parliament to amend a bill that would set jail terms for “offending religious feeling” – a measure lawmakers proposed after last year’s […]
Mistaking Islamism for Islam
Source: The Ottawa Citizen BY FRED LITWIN AND SALIM MANSUR, OTTAWA We are daily inundated with news of horrors from the Arab-Muslim world to the extent that for many in […]
An Unlikely Connection Between the Prophet Muhammad and George Washington
Source: The Huffington Post By Craig Considine: PhD. candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Film director, ‘Journey into America’; Interfaith activist In seventh century Arabia, a middle-aged man had a vision to […]
Some Quotes about Islam from Babi and Baha’i Writings
Ali Muhammad Bab wrote: “Since at the time when the Holy Qur’an was revealed the people of those days prided themselves over their mastery of the language, Allah sent down […]
A Coherent and Rational Approach to Rebuilding the Third Temple
A Coherent and Rational Approach to Rebuilding the Third Temple: A Proposal for an International Architectural Competition The Jerusalem Post: We, the Jews, are lacking in a commodity almost every […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist?
By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus […]
Debate: Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First something about the big picture, Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based on laws of nature and science, […]
Germany’s Bremen recognizes Islam as official religion
World Bulletin / News Desk: With the approval of the agreement, Muslims gained a religious community status for the first time in the history of Germany. The federal state assembly […]
Anti-Jewish slogans are not Islamic
Are anti-Jewish slogans truly Islamic? by Sinem Tezyapar, the Jewish Journal: Anti-Jewish slogans uttered over the years within certain Muslim circles have given the impression that Islam is absolutely opposed […]
World Religion Day- Community to Kinship
The magnificent Kremlin of Kazan (a Unesco World Heritage) with its orthodox church and mosque, a symbol of coexistence among different religions. Religion promotes peace and harmony. It builds bridges […]
Spiritual but Not Religious?
Huff Post: Michael P. Murphy. The word “religion” finds its root in religio, which means “to bind.” And herein lies the main point: we like being “spiritual” because the concept, as we perceive it, makes no claim upon us. It binds us to nothing — or at least nothing communal, confessional […]
Atheism, a Comparative Study
By Obaid Ullah Khan Latest surveys of the religious demographics of the world show that around 33.3% of the world’s population belongs to Christian faith which is the largest religion in the world at present. At second position comes Islam which enjoys the adherence of around 21% of the whole […]
36 Ahmadis ‘convert’ to Sunni Islam??
Thirty six followers of Ahmadiyah “converted” to Sunni Islam during a ceremony conducted at Agung grand mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Thursday. “We really appreciate the move from those […]
Muslim Flu Shots?
Ahmadiyya Times: Faheem Younus (OEN-OpEdNews). Faith leaders must unite to combat a virus which follows a strict non-discrimination policy. Thus, I will continue to reach out to soup kitchens, churches, and synagogues only as a part of my civic duty. Let me guess – a flu-like illness inflicted you or […]
Selling Islamic Wine with Hindu and Christian Trappings
Bridging the Gap Between Hinduism and Christianity Source: The Huffington Post By Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: Hindu Chaplain, Columbia University and New York University Growing up in a Hindu family in […]
Islam Does Not Command War Against Jews
Listen to Me: Islam Does Not Command War Against Jews Let me clarify these misconceptions about Islam so that there is no excuse for warmongers and those who wish to […]
World’s sufis to establish organization for World Peace
World’s sufis will hold meeting in Pekalongan The purposeful establishment of the organization is aimed at upholding the importance of monotheism in addition to helping create world peace. Jakarta, NU […]