Migrant crisis: More than 10,000 children ‘missing’
Source: BBC More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU’s police intelligence unit says. Europol said thousands of vulnerable […]
Ten books to read in February
Source: BBC Alexandra Harris, Weatherland “My thinking about people and weather has been inspired from the first by Virginia Woolf,” writes Harris, whose Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book […]
Syria conflict: Dozens killed near Sayyida Zeinab shrine
Source: BBC At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media say. The Islamic […]
Freedom going into reverse
Source: CNN CNN)The arc of history is bending backward, away from freedom and justice. It’s not what was supposed to happen, but it’s the troubling reality revealed in a new […]
David Cameron is right, poor literacy does fuel radicalisation
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Madiha Walker A graduate in Arabic and Islamic studies. She writes on social affairs and culture, with a specific interest in gender and Muslim women in […]
Video: Should we tolerate theocracy?
Maajid Nawaz joins John Barron on the ABC pane; show The Drum. He’s joined on the panel by Rebecca Weisser, John Stanley and Sara Saleh on the panel to talk […]
Obama To Visit A Mosque For The First Time As President
Source: Huffington Post By Sam Levine; Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post The visit comes after he called for Muslim Americans to help fight extremism. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to […]
India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mumbai to host its first Peace Symposium on topic “Universal Peace & Brotherhood”
From Masarrat Ahmad Mundasgar, President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mumbai Times of India (Mumbai) published our news in today’s newspaper on page 9: Read it online here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tiny-Ahmadiyya-sect-to-hold-peace-meet/articleshow/50788521.cms
France considers recognition of a Palestinian state
Source: Dawn PARIS: France will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at an international conference fail, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday. He told […]
First container train links China to Middle East
Source: China Daily A container train linking China and Iran departed from Yiwu City in east China’s Zhejiang Province loaded with Chinese small commodities on Thursday morning. According to the […]
According to the Qur’an, Can Jews and Christians ‘Partake in the Blessings of Heaven and Earth?’
Source: Huffington Post By Kabir Helminski; Sufi shaikh and author Many Christians and Jews, ignorant of what the Qur’an proposes, instead project on Islam a version of intolerance and aggression from their […]
Two Ways Christians Distort Islam (and Two Ways Muslims Distort Christianity)
Source: Christian Today An excerpt from “Christian. Muslim. Friend: Twelve Paths to Real Relationship.” David W. Shenk Editor’s Note: Christian. Muslim. Friend. received the 2016 Christianity Book Award in the category of Missions/The Global Church. My wife, Grace, and I were in a restaurant in an Asian country when friends […]
Religion and faith: Jews and Christians honor Holocaust victims
Source: Arizona Daily Star Public invited to talk on Islam, Quran The Tucson chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold a “Holy Quran Exhibition” at the Wheeler Taft Abbett […]
The Dangerous Ideology of Religion
Source: Consortium news Ideology, in the hands of true-believers, tends to reject facts in favor of some grander “truth,” an especially dangerous tendency when mixed with religious conviction and certainty, as Lawrence Davidson explains. By Lawrence Davidson Ideologies are pre-set forms of thinking that shape people’s worldviews and, supposedly, help […]
Ben Carson Challenged On Religion in Iowa
Source: Time “I’m an atheist voter. I’m not planted here, I’m born and raised in Iowa.” From the moment the questioner stood up and pointed his camera phone at Ben […]
True Islam is a peaceful militaristic religion
Source: The Gazette By: Arshad Yousufi the spokesman for the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs. Both sides of the argument in the article, Jan. 17, “Is violence the true version of Islam?” by Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk violate Albert Einstein’s maxim “Everything should be made as simple as possible, […]
Video: The big questions – Can The Bible and Darwin Both Be Right?
Challenging Ben Carson to a Written Debate About Facts of Evolution from Molecular Biology Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Republican presidential […]
Time for Christians to stand up and stop the rise of ‘secular and materialistic’ Britain, warns head of Ofsted
Dailymail.co.uk: It has never been more important for Christians to stand up for their faith, the head of Ofsted warned today. Sir Michael Wilshaw said society is becoming increasingly ‘secular and materialistic’, with ‘seemingly ever greater intolerance of other people’s beliefs’. Young people can easily ‘have their heads turned and […]
David Cameron is right, poor literacy does fuel radicalisation
Belfast Telegraph: For the Prime Minister and Government, the key hindrances standing in the way of the emancipation of hundreds of thousands of British Muslim women are firmly set in a cultural-religious epidemic characterised by poor literacy, oppressive segregation and the face veil. These obstacles, long unchallenged and wildly out […]
Law column: Handling religion in the workplace
Source: The Gazette Religion is one of the most confusing areas in employment law and also one of the fastest-growing areas of employee complaints and concerns. According to the […]