1/4 of French Teens are Muslim
Source: Front Page Magazine An investigation of the French youths’ religious beliefs was conducted last spring by Ipsos. It surveyed nine thousand high school pupils in their teens on behalf […]
India Kashmiri students ‘attacked’ over beef rumours
Source: BBC Four Kashmiri students were allegedly beaten up at a private university in northern India over rumours that they were cooking beef in their hostel room. The police intervened […]
These Christian teachers want to bring Jesus into public schools
Source: The Washington Post Finn Laursen believes millions of American children are no longer learning right from wrong, in part because public schools have been stripped of religion. To repair […]
Separation of Synagogue and State in Israel?
Epigraph: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:21 Israel’s Religiously Divided Society Source: Pew Research Forum Deep […]
Feds deal double blow to FLDS, the sect led by the Jeffs brothers
By Ann O’Neill, CNN Salt Lake City (CNN) These are dark days for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the reclusive polygamous sect led by imprisoned prophet […]
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Bangladesh may abandon Islam as state religion
Source: Daily Mail By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks Supreme Court is considering dropping Islam as country’s state […]
Video: On this Day in 1692 Salem Witch Hunt begins
Epigraph: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. (Exodus 22:18) Source: History.com In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave […]
Keep Religion Out of Israel’s Courts
Haaretz: The chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Habayit Hayehudi’s Nissan Slomiansky, is promoting a bill to increase the influence of Jewish law, halakha, in court decisions. The bill would set up an institute to advise judges and call on them to be assisted by the principles […]
Buffalo Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Promoting Secularism and Freedom of Speech
Watch the proceedings online today, March 20, 2016 Source: Nasir Khan; President, Buffalo Chapter Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Buffalo Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold its next conference […]
Religion and Secular Liberalism Should Enrich Each Other in a Modern Democracy
Source: Huffington Post By Muhammad Abdul Bari: Educationalist, community activist, author and parenting consultant Ignorance of others in a pluralist democracy is a big enemy. In recent decades the lack of […]
Here’s why Islam is practiced so differently from country to country
Source: Business Insider No religion is unified. How Catholicism, for example, is practiced in rural Italy differs from the way this is done, say, in New York city. Language, culture, […]
Islam versus Islam
Source: Inquirer LAHORE—Turmoil has seized much of the Muslim world. In Syria, a brutal war has already taken 250,000 lives, displaced half of the country’s 21 million people, and sent a million refugees to Europe seeking asylum. In Yemen, the Houthi tribe has risen up against the government, and is […]
‘Khula’ without husband’s consent is un-Islamic: The Council of Islamic Ideology
Myopia of the Muslim Mullahs has shown again that every woman and every moderate man should seek secularism Source: Express Tribune By Qaiser Butt ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) […]
Faith, hope and secularity: Ireland on brink of change as church power wanes
Source: The Guardian Mike McKillen was delighted to have his granddaughter’s help in digging the garden. But as a small creature wriggled out of the damp earth, the retired science […]
Is Ben Carson a Neurosurgeon or a ‘Schizophrenic?’
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Given Carson’s coarse rhetoric against the Muslims, we have chosen to change the heading of this news and return the favor to him. The joke […]
Video Debate: Is it right to shop on Sundays?
Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do: For six days, work is to be done, but […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims offer prayers in memory of Lord Avebury
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK pays tribute to humanitarian champion London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 15 February 2016 Ahmadi Muslims across the UK offered their heartfelt condolences to the family of […]
The truth about Muslims and sex slavery – according to the Quran, rather than Isis or Islamophobes
Source: Independent By Mariam Hakim Monday 15 February 2016 17:12 BST There are references to sex slavery in the Quran – but when you read them in context, the meaning […]
Celebrating President’s Day in USA, a Muslim’s Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February, meaning it […]