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 […]
Americans Tell Candidates: More Religion, Please!
Source: Christian Today Republican U.S. presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum pray at the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines, Iowa November 20, 2015. A growing number […]
Now Deeply Christian, Cruz’s Religion Once Wasn’t So Obvious
Source: ABC News Ted Cruz sometimes sounds more like a preacher than a presidential candidate. But one biblical tenet he rarely evokes is tithing, a mandate that 10 percent of possessions be donated to God. That’s because tax records Cruz released between 2006 and 2010 show he and his […]
Linking Terrorism With Religion Will Help Terror Groups: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Source: NDTV BENGALURU: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said linking terrorism with any particular religion would only help terror forces to succeed in their motives as they use “division […]
Sweden masked gang ‘targeted migrants’ in Stockholm
Source: BBC Up to 100 masked men, dressed in black, gathered in central Stockholm to attack people from immigrant backgrounds, reports say. Swedish police say the large gang distributed leaflets […]
An Ancient Philosopher’s Brilliant Theory Explains Everything Bad You’ve Ever Done
Source: Huffington Post What do you think of when you hear the word “sin?” Some immediately think of immoral acts, like adultery. For others, the mind may go to illegal activities. And some may even conjure up images of indulgences, as in enjoying a “sinful” dessert. In short, there could […]
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Trolls Trump: ‘I Bailed You Out Twice’
Source: Huffington Post A Saudi prince may have just beaten Donald Trump at a game of Twitter trolling. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Twitter that he’s bailed the billionaire out twice — and suggested the GOP presidential frontrunner might need his help a third time. The exchange was initiated […]
HOW PAKISTAN PLAYED WITH SECULARISM CREED
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Ashok Malik | Farahnaz Ispahani in her book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, bravely records not just the near-annihilation of religious minorities in Pakistan, but also the intensifying sectarian conflict Farahnaz Ispahani’s recent book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s […]
Anti Islamic slogans in Richmond Hill learning centre
Swastika, anti-Islamic slogans graffiti found on Richmond Hill learning centre Source: CBC York Regional Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the suspect, or suspects, responsible for spray painting […]
How this Waterloo x-cop’s evidence-gathering software is changing how we investigate crime
Police captured Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from his hideout in a boat in a dramatic hail of bullets, but that was just the beginning of their work. Less exciting, […]