Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post In April 1993, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton opened up about her faith journey in an interview with The […]
Source: Yahoo News A Bangladeshi Islamist party allied to the opposition has elected a new chief untainted by war crime allegations, seeking to turn the page after the execution of […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Emily Feldman Can women-run Islamic courts bring gender justice to India’s Muslims? One group that is training India’s first class of female ‘qazis,’ or Islamic […]
It was a pleasure to meet with the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, today in Ottawa. #CaliphInCanada pic.twitter.com/errTelGbmb — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 17, 2016 […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Tom Krattenmaker Author, ‘Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower’ Despite the fact I am a secular person, I find that there is something compelling and transformative about […]
Source: MSN By Neha Bhatia A Hindu temple currently under construction in Abu Dhabi will be completed in 2017, its development team has announced. B R Shetty, vice chairman and […]
The truth about whether Islamic values are compatible with Western values Source: The Independent By Atif Rashid – @tif_49 Time and again Islam’s teachings uphold religious and personal freedoms. If […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A proclamation by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin inviting Christians to pray for the oil and natural gas industry will be amended to be more inclusive of […]
Source: BBC Indian police are investigating the parents of a 13-year-old girl who died last week after undertaking a religious fast for 68 days. Police in southern Hyderabad city told […]
India Biryani Wars Source: BBC By Husna Haq If India had a national food, one contender up there with rotis, dal or samosas might be the spiced, multi-layered rice dish […]
The Atlantic Monthly: Ben Affleck has become an unlikely spokesman for a view on Islam held by many on the American left. In 2014, the actor made a now-famous stand against Bill Maher and Sam Harris in defense of Muslims, arguing that it’s wrong to make generalizations about the religion based on ideological extremists and […]
Source: CBC News As a divisive election tears Americans apart over questions of race and immigration, a CBC News poll suggests Canadians are right in believing they think very differently […]
Source: Reuters By Caroline Copley | BERLIN A veteran ally of Angela Merkel urged Muslims in Germany on Sunday to develop a “German Islam” based on liberalism and tolerance, saying […]
Economist: “THE wall between state and church”, Justice Hugo Black wrote in Everson v Board of Education, a case from 1947, “must be kept high and impregnable”. Justice Black was […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released a report criticizing religious exemptions that infringe on civil rights ― and some conservative […]
Source: Naya Zamana or New Age By Prof. Kamran Siddiqui, Western University Recently, a Canadian Newspaper Globe and Mail covered a story of Muslim families in a Toronto neighborhood demanding […]
Source: Gulf News New York: The man stood at the podium in the cramped Masjid Un-Noor mosque on Staten Island as hundreds of Muslims sat barefoot on the carpet before […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication of America, Winter 2013 volume By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After my training of six years to […]
By PERVEZ HOODBHOY PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office says Pakistan is “deeply saddened” by the execution in Bangladesh last week of Mir Quasem Ali. Mir Quasem was found guilty in 2014 by a Bangladeshi court of torture, multiple murders and arson. He was sentenced to death after what Pakistan describes as “a flawed […]