All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: This article, especially the comment section below, will be used as a repository to refute the false association of terrorism with Islam. The latest […]
Why Islam does not need reformation – Christian style
Why Islam Doesn’t Need a Reformation, Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam, Mehdi Hasan, New Age Islam Why Islam Doesn’t Need a Reformation By Mehdi Hasan 17 May 2015 15 In recent months, cliched calls for reform of Islam, a 1,400-year-old faith, have intensified. “We need a Muslim reformation,” announced Newsweek. “Islam needs […]
Forecast: 20 million more Muslims in Germany by 2020
Source: American Thinker By Thomas Lifson Serious political conflict is breaking out in Germany over Chancellor Merkel’s open-door policy for Muslim migrants. Soren Kern of the Gatestone Institute reports: Germany’s […]
Canada Is the Freest Country in the World
Source: US News This Is the Freest Country in the World Sorry, America. America may call itself the “Land of the Free,” but it’s hardly the freest nation in the […]
Donald Trump’s take on burkas: Islamic women might prefer them
Source: CNN Donald Trump joked Monday that women in the Islamic world might prefer to wear burkas because it lessens the need to apply make-up. Trump, delivering a riff in […]
Religious Freedom Requires Give as Well as Take
Source: The Huffington Post The always contentious issue of religious freedom appears to be heading back to the Supreme Court. Not that this court can be trusted to make a […]
Thousands Flee As Rare Cyclone Hits Yemen
Source: The Huffington Post CAIRO (Reuters) – A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country’s fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending thousands […]
More Scandal For Vatican With Release Of Tell-All Books
Source: Huffington Post The Vatican’s new leaks scandal intensified Tuesday as a book detailed the mismanagement and internal resistance that has been thwarting Pope Francis’ financial reform efforts. Citing confidential […]
No vote, no candidates: Myanmar’s Muslims barred from their own election
Source: The Guardian The upcoming poll on 8 November has been been touted as the freest and fairest in decades but, with religion an increasingly sensitive issue in Myanmar, many […]
Bangladesh writers stage freedom rally despite fear of attack
Source: Reuters About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked […]
Who Pays the Price for the First Amendment?
Source: The Atlantic The late Irving Feiner would have made a hell of a lawyer. After he spoke to my First Amendment class twenty years ago, a few students suggested […]
A lone Muslim campaigns in Myanmar’s stronghold of radical Buddhism
Source: Reuters The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious centre so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable. Much easier to […]
NYPD officer ‘converted’ to Islam to spy on Muslim Brooklyn College students
Source: Tribune A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer pretended to convert to Islam and assumed the role of a Brooklyn College student at the Islamic Society in New York […]
Why Do The British Drink So Much?
Source: BBC News I first met alcohol in the late 1980s. It was the morning after one of my parents’ parties. My sister and I, aged nine or 10, were […]
U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious
Source: Pew Research Center Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, […]
Religious Landscape Study
Source: Pew Research Center Religions Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination Christian70.6% Evangelical Protestant25.4% Mainline Protestant14.7% Historically Black Protestant6.5% Catholic20.8% Mormon1.6% Orthodox Christian0.5% Jehovah’s Witness0.8% […]
Washington high school coach placed on leave for praying on field
Source: CNN A Seattle-area assistant high school football coach has been placed on paid leave for continuing to pray on the field after games, weeks after his school district warned […]
Bangladesh writers stage freedom rally despite fear of attack
About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked writers and […]
In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law
Source: New York Times By MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG NOV. 2, 2015 A few months before he took a toxic mix of drugs and died on a stranger’s couch, Nicklaus […]
Pakistan: Is the Council of Islamic Ideology inciting genocide against Ahmadis
Source: The Nation Sitara was a special kid from the start. Questioning everything around her, she was a difficult student to be satisfied. At the young age of 9, she […]