Ted Talk: When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism
Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for […]
No Handshake, No Citizenship, French Court Tells Algerian Woman
Source: New York Times By Aurelien Breeden PARIS — An Algerian woman’s refusal to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalization ceremony is sufficient grounds for denying her […]
The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation
Source: BBC By Soutik Biswas, India correspondent What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely vegetarian […]
Austria’s government aims to ban headscarves in kindergartens
Source: Reuters International VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s right-wing government announced plans on Wednesday to ban girls from wearing headscarves in kindergarten and primary schools to combat what it sees as […]
Poland’s Sunday trading ban takes effect
Source: The Guardian Catholic church welcomes law that begins with ban on two Sundays a month, extending to all in 2020 A Polish law banning almost all trade on Sundays […]
Will Malaysia’s Islamisation change course?
Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Chin-Huat Wong PENANG — Malaysia is just a few months or even weeks away from its most contentious election in decades. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s […]
Islamabad High Court Demonstrating to the Whole World the Ills of the “Shariah Law!”
Taking oath on faith should be compulsory to join civil, armed services and judiciary, Islamabad High Court says Source: Dawn By Mohammad Imran The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday announced […]
BBC Video: The Big Questions: Secularism and UK Schools?
Suggested reading Shariah and Constitution: A Personal Journey Shariah and Constitution by Zia H Shah How Islam Taught Medieval Christian Europe Religious and Political Tolerance How Europe came to forget about its Arabic heritage
Jerusalem Church Where Jesus Is Said to be Buried Closed After Tax Dispute With Israeli Government
Source: Newsweeklar By Tom Porter Christian leaders have closed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, said to be built on the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, in a […]
Muslim leader urges Macron not to meddle too much in French Islam
Source: Reuters By Julie Carriat PARIS (Reuters) – A leading representative of French Muslims urged Emmanuel Macron not to meddle in the organization of France’s second-largest religion, days after the […]
Russian Ban on Jehovah Witnesses: Religious Freedom, Human Rights of the Members or the National Security?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the disbanding of the Jehovah’s Witnesses on Russian territory. The ban came into […]
Woman Arrested For Removing Hijab in Tehran Refuses to Repent Despite Facing 10 Years in Prison
Source: Center for Human Rights in Iran Narges Hosseini, who was arrested for protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab, refused to appear in court to face charges punishable by up to 10 […]
German court bans mosque’s outdoor call to prayer
Source: Straits Times BERLIN (REUTERS) – A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld […]
Time has come to consider values of secularism
Source: JORDAN TIMES By Kamal Naffa, who is former professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton The time has come to consider the values and practices of secularism as […]
The Best English and Urdu Video Refuting Islamism from the Quran and Hadith
This is a speech by Arif Mohammad Khan. Courtesy of Prof. Muhammad Sharif Khan Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951 in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh) is a former cabinet minister in the union of […]
India: Mullahs and Money
By Moin Qazi, Nagpur, India (moinqazi123@gmail.com) One of the most contentious issues that have vexed the minds of Muslims is the concept of interest in the modern-day economy. The Islamic clerics (ulema) have exhibited an ambivalent stand on major issues concerning Islamic finance and on most occasions preferred to diplomatically […]
Religious Freedom Day Today and the Real Meaning of the Separation of Church and State
Source: Time By James Lankford, who is a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; and Dr. Russell Moore is the President of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. We […]
Sharia for New Year’s
Source: Gate Stone Institute By Bruce Bawer, who is the author of the new novel The Alhambra (Swamp Fox Editions). His book While Europe Slept (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The same reporters and commentators who insist that it is absurd to worry about sharia coming […]
Public School Ends Bible Giveaway Tradition After Humanists File Complaint
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Reporter, HuffPost “Anyone … can see that the purpose of this is to promote Christianity,” said a lawyer for the legal branch of […]
For many evangelicals, Jerusalem is about prophecy, not politics
By Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of 10 books on American religion and culture, including “Grateful: The Transformative […]
