A moment that changed me: quitting the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Source: The Guardian By Anonymous At 18 I turned my back on the cloistered isolation of my family’s faith and began a life where I was free to question ideas […]
Seven Reasons Why European Agnostics and Atheists Should Consider Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A recent article in Huffington Post, by Jack Sommers, Assistant News Editor, Huffington Post UK, Christians Outnumbered […]
Video: The Story of God With Morgan Freeman – Who Is God?
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman S01E03 | Who is God God of Islam: God of Nature and the Creator of our Universe Epigraph: Allah has created the heavens […]
Islam and Christianity share ‘idea of conquest’, says Pope Francis
theguardian: by Pontiff condemns ‘ghettoisation’ of migrants and hails Sadiq Khan’s election as first Muslim mayor of London Pope Francis: ‘Talk of the Christian roots of Europe … can seem triumphalist or even vengeful.’ Photograph: AGF/Rex/Shutterstock Islam and Christianity share an inherent “idea of conquest”, and those who refer to […]
Religious education is a matter for parents, not schools
Telegraph UK: Parents should be prohibited from withdrawing their children from religious education classes, so the headteachers union has just resolved. Sounds reasonable? Not to me it doesn’t, because every child has a right to be peculiar. “The Bible and Shakespeare, which are to be found, we’re told, on every […]
When Muslims and Christians Flourished Side By Side in Sicily
The Other Al-Andalus — When Muslims and Christians Flourished Side By Side in Sicily Source: The Huffington Post I sometimes think about the glories of “Islamic Spain,” or Al-Andalus. Starting […]
American Religion Has Never Looked Quite Like It Does Today
HuffPost: by Antonia Blumberg — Based on these trends, the future of religion in America probably isn’t a church. Nearly a century after German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first proclaimed “God is dead,” TIME magazine released a controversial cover on its April 8, 1966 edition with the related provocative question: “Is […]
Intellectual secularism: The sickness of all times
The human nature and its knowledge is entirely and linearly entwined, overlapping each other and inseparable from each other. With the passage of time, social evolution, in a sense, has […]
Why Kids Must Learn About Religion Much Earlier
Time: Last weekend during a basketball playoff game, roughly 50 to 75 fans of a Catholic high school in Bostonchanted: “You Killed Jesus” at the opposing side, a suburban school with many Jewish students. That chant, which grew out of taunts between fans of both Catholic Memorial School, a private […]
US election 2016: What does ‘Islam’ think of America?
BBC: “Islam hates us,” Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said in a CNN interview on Friday. Mr Trump later stood by his claim in a televised debate in Miami, saying: “There is tremendous hatred, and I will stick with exactly what I said.” It led to an outcry, with Senator Marco […]
IS RELIGION TO BLAME FOR EXTREMISM?
http://theviewpoint.co: Muslims claim their religion teaches peace, harmony, love and goodness while the actions of some so-called adherents to the faith prove contrary. How can it be that on the one hand, their religion teaches good while some of its believers commit evil? Some suggest the reason being an inherent […]
National Geographics Video: How People Around The World Answer The Question: ‘Who Is God?’
National Geographic Channel went to 22 countries around the world to find out who people think God is. THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN PREMIERES SUNDAY APRIL 3 at […]
New Iqaluit mosque opens doors
CBC: After years in the making, Iqaluit’s new mosque held its inauguration Friday, officially opening as a place of worship. The building will serve as a prayer space and a […]
‘Violence more common’ in Bible than Quran, text analysis reveals
The Independent: An analysis into whether the Quran is more violent than the Bible found killing and destruction occur more frequently in the Christian texts than the Islamic. Investigating whether […]
France’s official blindness to religion only masks religious hatred
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — French secularism, or laïcité, treats religion as a dirty little secret, and manifests itself as a restriction of public prayer or the open expression of religious identity A policeman stands guard as a digger destroys a church at a migrant camp in Calais on 1 […]
Are US businesses doing enough to support religious diversity in the workplace?
theguardian: by Alison Moodie — Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued? Samanth Elauf stands with her mother outside the US Supreme Court in Washington in February 2015. Elauf was denied a sales job at an […]
Reason and religion need not always be in violent opposition
Guardian: Contrary to Nick Cohen’s assertion that “civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment”, the initial spin-off of the latter was the horror of the French Revolution. A more positive development of the time was England’s free press, praised by Voltaire. In fact, Christianity has a […]
Faiths coming together in Barrie for World Religion Day
Building Better Bridges in Barrie Ontario 7 The Bahá’í Community of Barrie is hosting the World Religion Day 2016 on Sunday January 17 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the […]
Key findings on Muslim population in US
A US-based think tank has conducted a study to answer some of key questions about Muslims and Islam in the United States Source: World Bulletin / News Desk The growth […]