The Minority’s Minority
Source: Tehelka “The breed of Qadianis will never change. They may multiply up to 99 generations; still the 100th one will continue to be a dualist-infidel and apostate. The […]
Judge backs blogger over anti-Islam NYC bus ads
Source: WS journal Associated Press NEW YORK — An anti-Islam activist has won a preliminary round in her First Amendment fight to place New York City bus ads calling enemies of Israel “savages.” Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan says he agrees with blogger Pamela Geller. He says the Metropolitan […]
God’s Think Tank – Inter-religious Research Training Group
Source: Qantara A new inter-religious research training group seeks to investigate how people began to think about religion and to determine how thinking about religion can be made into a […]
The Catholic Church’s Fading Influence in Poland
Credit: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl DPA Twenty years ago, the Catholic Church played a major role in the fall of communism in Poland. Today, with the country changing rapidly, the church’s influence is quickly waning. Once considered the most Catholic country in Europe, the faithful are vanishing. More:
Study: Jehovah’s Witness heart patients do well, even without transfusions
Jehovah’s Witnesses who have heart surgery don’t seem to fare any worse than other patients, even though they refuse to undergo blood transfusions during the surgery, a new study has […]
How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
the guardian: The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in point. It’s not a pretty story, and it is often used by […]
THE NEXT 100 YEARS – A FORECAST for the 21st Century
An extract from the book: THE NEXT 100 YEARS – A FORECAST for the 21st Century By George FRIEDMAN published in 2009 by Anchor Books The books gives us a Global Forecast. We are giving our readers as a sample the chapter on Turkey pages 144 to 148. TURKEY During […]
If Muhammad Had Not Spoken
Huff Post: by Samir Selmanovic Community Engagement Catalyst, Communicator Life interrupts us. When we can’t fit our life experience into our religion, something has to give, and life can’t give. Like a sturdy surgical tool, life cuts back across our religion to save us from it. Just when we figure […]
Belief-O-Matic and Me
Huff Post by Kecia Ali. Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University According to the Internet, I am 100 percent Reform Jew. This came as something of a surprise to me since I’m a Muslim. Let me explain. In the wake of Sept. 11, I was invited to contribute an essay […]
Ulama to promote Islamic industry
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Ulama or Muslim cleric have potential to promote immature Islamic industry in Indonesia. Nevertheless, not many of them are familiar or have knowledge about the industry. “Ulama […]
Peace in Religious Communities is Impressive and Inviting
James Kunstler, Kunstler.com : Way up here in the heartland, far from the craft beer parlors, Facebookstock bucket shops, and gender obsessions of the mythical Urban Edge People, the detritus of your country is […]
Mourning Around the World
Huff Post It is always hard when people die. No matter what the situation, it seems impossible to deal with the fact that someone you were close to will no longer be around. Although there is no one way to get over this, people have developed ways to make it […]
2 Years Today: Eye witness Account of Lahore Martyrdom: Islam Lives Forever
khuddam.org.uk: My name is Muzaffar Ahmad. I am originally from Lahore, Pakistan and my constituency is Garden Town which is part of the Model Town Majlis. During the Lahore massacre, […]
Jesus’ Crucifixion Date Possibly Friday April 3, 33 A.D., According To Earthquake Study
Huff Post A new study suggests that the Biblical date of Jesus’ crucifixion is, in fact, possible to confirm. The International Geology Review investigated an earthquake that was said to have occurred the same date as Jesus’ crucifixion; which was most likely Friday April 3, 33 A.D. In Gospel of of […]
Why Hatred of Islam Is Not Logical
Patheos.com Time and again, the same illogical claims about Islam keep popping up from various people, whether they are pundits, commenters, or self-styled “experts” on Islam: Islam is “violent,” it calls for the “killing of all non-Muslims,” Muslims “must hate all non-Muslims,” or that Islam is a religion of “domination,” […]
Patterns of intolerance
Dawn.com A PERSISTENT failure to deal with the canker of intolerance — one of the greatest threats to the Pakistani people’s mental health and their material well-being — is making the affliction day by day more unmanageable. A young non-Muslim woman has been living in Lahore for quite some time. […]
Pakistan: You cannot quote from the Quran’
Express Tribune: A cleric in Sialkot district disrupted a Saturday mass, abused the pastor and is now threatening to register a blasphemy FIR against him for drawing upon verses from […]
Allah protects churches, Islamists attack them
hurriyetdailynews: by Mustafa Akyol: Yesterday’s New York Times had two separate but equally worrying opinion pieces on the religious bigotry in Indonesia, (“Indonesia’s Rising Religious Intolerance,” by Benedict Rogers, and “No […]
My Neighbor’s Faith: What I Found in the Chapel
Huff Post In 1955, after years of intensive seminary study and service in various Orthodox Jewish congregations in New England, I began to feel the need for a broader education and a wider range of experience. Up to this point, my entire religious education had taken place within the Jewish […]
Catholics won’t go quietly: Will take Obama Down
Washington Post: by Michael Gerson: In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns — important to strategic constituencies in battleground […]