Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post The display was called “an egregious violation of the First Amendment.” A Kansas school has taken down a portrait of Jesus […]
Source: New York Times PUNE, India — All week, people streamed in and out of the handsome bungalow where the Lodha family lives, eager to witness for themselves the amazing […]
Epigraph: This day all good things have been made lawful for you. … And lawful for you are chaste believing women and chaste women from among those who were given […]
August 17, 2015 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Today, Egypt’s al-Sisi imposed strict anti-terrorism laws. The laws establish special courts and […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Epigraph: Divorce may be pronounced twice; then, either retain them in a becoming manner or send them away with kindness. And it is not lawful for you that you take […]
Thomas Jefferson didn’t just own a Quran — he engaged with Islam and fought to ensure the rights of Muslims By DENISE SPELLBERG Salon: [He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] […]
America welcomes Christians, Jews; atheists, Muslims not so much By Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) Americans are all for religious freedom — but disagree on who can claim it. Diverse religious groups […]
Source: Telegraph By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor Lure of Syria and Isil blamed for sharp increase in children referred to Channel counter-radicalisation programme The number of children and teenagers being […]
Faith Street.com: In a famous 1863 speech, President Lincoln said, “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace . . . and we […]
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid In a famous 1863 speech, President Lincoln said, “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace . . . and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by […]
Epigraph: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Barbara Kay Lundblad; Ordained minister, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America We asked people about the relevancy of marriage. “The court now holds that same-sex couples may […]
Malaysian Gymnast faces co controversy http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2015/06/20/leotard-controversy-muslim-gymnast-ansari-pkg.cnn A Malaysian Muslim gymnast faces backlash from conservative Muslims for her gymnastics leotard. CNN’s Azadeh Ansari reports.
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/22/2015 4:43 pm How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress Black People On Jan. 4, 1861, […]
International Herald Tribune: by Justin Rowlatt — From BBC News It is a bizarre image: cops demanding mug-shots of cows rather than crooks. But that’s what officers in the city of Malegaon in Maharashtra, one of India’s most populous states, are doing in an attempt to enforce its new beef […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/15/2015 A Sikh college student will now be able to pursue his dream of serving in the U.S. Army, without being forced […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/15/2015 A Sikh college student will now be able to pursue his dream of serving in the U.S. Army, without being forced […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Source: The Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani While Ahmedis can get passports as citizens of Pakistan, the officially sanctioned Muslims of Pakistan have to certify on the passport application that they consider Ahmedis non-Muslims Though there are some questions about the story but if Tahera Ahmad — the chaplain […]