Source: The Guardian By Saad Hammadi in Dhaka Asha Mone has been living in constant fear for her life. It is eight months since her husband, the Bangladeshi secular blogger […]
Source: Reuters BY AYLA JEAN YACKLEY AND ERCAN GURSES A call by Turkey’s parliament speaker for a new constitution to drop references to secularism provoked opposition condemnation and a brief […]
Source: BBC A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. […]
BBC: Prime Minister David Cameron has given his full support to a campaign against extremism following the killing of a Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow. Asad Shah, 40, was stabbed last month. He was an Ahmadiyya, a group known for its peaceful interfaith concerns. Murder accused Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford, […]
pakistantoday.com.pk: It’s been a long time coming “How can we save Pakistan from secularism?” was one of the questions at an exam I attended earlier this week. Isn’t it mind-boggling? The political idea which many in Pakistan have been struggling for years to popularize has been portrayed as something vile, […]
Moral Matrix: Islam, Religious Freedom and Europe Today | Clarion Project Source: Clarion Project BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND AND MEIRA SVIRSKY Three separate cases in different parts of the world illustrate […]
Source: Pew Research Center More countries restrict women’s ability to wear religious symbols or attire than require women to dress a certain way In many countries around the world, women’s […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the […]
Source: Foreign Policy By Robert Zaretsky, who is a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College. A militant form of laïcité has taken hold in France, backed by […]
Source: Pakistantoday.com.pk By Ayesha Khalid; who is pursuing an Mphil in Public Policy and Governance from FCC. She is a graduate of Kinnaird College, with a degree in Economics. Whether […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Tennessee lawmakers vote for Bible as state’s official book Source: Associated Press By ERIK SCHELZIG NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — […]
Source: Tribune LAHORE: The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday gave an undertaking at Lahore High Court (LHC) that the government would amend a question, deemed offensive by the Shia community, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post A Sikh army captain who sued the U.S. military for discrimination in March has won the right to continue […]
Source: Times of India DHAKA: Bangladesh will celebrate its 45th Independence Day on Saturday, March 26th, the day it emerged as a sovereign nation, breaking the shackles of suppression of […]
Source: Huffington Post On March 23, 1940 the All India Muslim League adopted a historic resolution in the city of Lahore. This resolution has since come to be known as […]
Source: International Business Times By Priyanka Mogul A number of British Lords have criticised India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting Hindu extremism. The concerns were raised in UK parliament […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sabrina Sultana; Student, Bard College It is becoming increasingly common in anti-Muslim rhetoric to claim Islam as a political ideology, instead of a Muslim faith. The increase in suspicion and fear towards Muslims fuels this idea as people begin to immediately associate Islam with violence. As […]
Source: The National In 2016, many parts of the Arab world are in a state of disarray. The instability that one sees relates to political disorder that exists in both […]
Barack Obama’s perspective on Islam is mistaken Source: The National By Dr HA Hellyer, who is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and a non-resident senior […]
Source: The Indian Express The Pakistan National Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to take steps to declare Holi, Diwali and Easter as holidays for minorities in the country. “This […]