Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY NEW DELHI — As his party prepares for elections in key states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has distanced himself from right-wing cow […]
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore HAMBURG, Germany (RNS) In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Kurt Neumann began digging in his garden. During the previous eight years, under the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Nick Robins-Early; Associate World Editor, The Huffington Post Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Liaquat Ali Khan; Founder, Legal Scholar Academy and Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law Newt Gingrich, who holds a Ph.D. in European History and […]
Source: BBC All 300,000 mosques in Bangladesh have been asked give a sermon against terrorism and extremism in their Friday prayers this week. The sermon, written by the state-run Islamic […]
Source: Huffington Post Asking American Muslims to swear off Sharia law is a violation of religious liberty. By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Following Thursday’s tragic attack that killed more […]
By Sabeeha Rehman This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly […]
Source: Dawn DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said.The move comes […]
Source: My Republica By Shraddha Amatya KATHMNADU, July 11: Religious leaders from the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Sikh and Muslim communities were unanimous in commending secularism in the country on Saturday. […]
Source: The Tribune Express By Yasser Latif Hamdani Published: July 5, 2016 The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is a constitutional body established under Article 228 of the Constitution of […]
Source: Aljazeera An online petition against triple talaq has been signed by 50,000 Muslim men and women across the country. By Shriya Ramakrishnan Twenty five-year-old Salma’s* life crumbled one morning […]
Source: Jordan Times By James J. Zogby Shortly after Tim Kaine had been elected governor of Virginia in 2006, a discussion ensued among Democratic Party leaders about the lessons that could […]
Source: Huffington Post By Soumaya Ghannoushi; Tunisian British writer & Middle East expert As we ponder the crises and conflicts raging around the Muslim world, with their toxic mix of […]
Source: RT.com Published time: 17 Jun, 2016 Almost half the ethnic Turks living in Germany consider following Islamic teaching more important than abiding by the law, a new survey claims. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After the top constitutional body on Islamic laws in Pakistan recommended ‘a light beating for women’ sparking […]
Source: The Guardian An influential group of Pakistani clerics have issued a fatwa against “honour” killings, with a spokesman calling them “unethical and unjustifiable” following a series of attacks on […]
Source: Herald Muslim women’s rights collectives have long been campaigning against the practices of instant triple talaq, polygamy and nikaah–halala in India. Two Supreme Court cases by Shayara Bano and […]
Religion has played an enormous role in British public life, but not lately. We can be grateful not to be fighting religious wars or repressing Bible translations. We should be glad that in the 19th century Britain did finally offer Catholics full political rights. Perhaps we should be content with […]
Source: Yahoo News By Liz Goodwin and Olivier Knox Hillary Clinton said Monday she would be willing to call the Orlando attack an act of radical Islamist terror. “From my […]
Source: Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein As the public policy guy for the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore is used to being asked about religion and politics. But this year, […]