Bangladesh to Remove Jihad from Madrasa Textbooks October 25, 2017 The new textbooks of the Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board will not contain any chapters with lessons on Jihad, for the first time in nearly four decades. The Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board – also known as the Alia Madrasa Education Board […]
Source: Time BY Jon Gambrell / AP 6:28 AM ET (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — New security screenings for all passengers on U.S.-bound flights began on Thursday, with airlines worldwide […]
Source: America Magazine BY Michael J. O’Loughlin For the first time, a majority of Americans—56 percent—say it is possible to be a good person without religious belief. And about half of […]
Source: UCA News A growing number of blasphemy attacks on campus has prompted a new program to promote religious understanding Students at a diversity workshop in Lahore. (Photo courtesy Youth […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Wm. Moyer October 24 Faheem Younus greets visitors to a mosque for a community meeting about the development. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) JOPPATOWNE, Md. — Dueling legal […]
Source: The Guardian By Martin Chulov in Riyadh Mohammed bin Salman tells the Guardian that ultra-conservative state has been ‘not normal’ for past 30 years The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin […]
Source: Religion News Service By Matthew Levering and Kevin J. Vanhoozer Matthew Levering, a Catholic perspective In my book “Was the Reformation a Mistake?: Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical,” I […]
Source: The Conversation Why do people distrust atheists? A recent study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people […]
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Source:Fast Forward The controversy, which echoes fights in New York over the construction of Hasidic Jewish communities, pits some locals against a project that aimed to sell homes in a retirement community to members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim group.The developer, Faheem Younus, told the Post that River Run, the planned […]
Mohammed bin Salman was named Crown Prince in June this year, ousting cousin Mohammed bin Nayef, who is 27 years his senior. Now he has his eyes on a much […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 1:21 PMOct 25, 2017 – 13:21 FILE PHOTO: A burnt house is seen in a village in Maungdaw in the […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 Umar, 64, a Muslim from the Tzotzil Maya ethnic group, speaks with Evangelical worshippers in a meeting between members […]
By swissinfo.ch This content was published on October 26, 2017 Ernesto Bertarelli is one of Switzerland’s 35 billionaires (Keystone) The total wealth of the world’s 1,542 billionaires – including 35 in Switzerland – grew 17% to $6 trillion (CHF5.93 trillion) last year, led by a surge in Asia’s emerging […]
By swissinfo.ch and agencies October 25, 2017 6:24 PMOct 25, 2017 – 18:24 A wall-painting in Tehran. Switzerland will assume Saudi consular interests in the Iranian capital, and vice-versa. (Keystone) The Swiss government has confirmed that it will officially take up a protecting power mandate in the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, […]
For decades, we have been condemning the dictators of the Middle East for their drumhead courts and their mass hangings. But how can we condemn them now, when we are announcing, quite publicly, that we want our own citizens dead if they joined Isis Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices […]
Most surveys of philosophy in the Islamic world share the same shortcomings. They focus primarily on a couple of traditions, restricted by creed (“Islamic philosophy”), language (“Arabic philosophy”), or geography (“philosophy of Middle East” or “Near East”) at the expense of covering the contributions of scholars from other milieus. They […]
Report by Toby Ephram, National Outreach Co-odinater Paama UK On 3rd Sept 2017 the Paama North Region held their 1st ever tabligh event as part of the national paama Launch of outreach peace awareness campaign and actions against Hatred, Radicalisation and Extremism under the supervision of Vice President Mr Ahmed […]
Source: Time BY Matthew Pennington / AP Oct 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to declare that “ethnic cleansing” is […]
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher A new vaccine that could prevent up to nine-in-10 cases of typhoid fever has been recommended by the World Health Organization. Experts say it […]