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 […]
Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves. (Al Quran 2:144) Piety […]
The anesthesia of familiarity: There should be a Creator of Our Universe
Epigraph Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He settled Himself on the Throne. And He pressed the sun and the […]
Anonymous Begins Revealing Information About Alleged Ku Klux Klan Members
Source: Huffington Post By Ryan Grenoble; News Editor, The Huffington Post The group claims to have identified 1,000 KKK members and will release their names on Nov. 5. Last week, a group […]
Thank you, Hamza Ali Abbasi, for supporting my right to be Ahmadi
Tribune.pk: Pakistani actor, Hamza Ali Abbasi, is always in the headlines for one reason or another. Recently, I wrote an article criticising his comments that apparently belittled Pakistan’s minorities. However, […]
Ahmadiyya Apartheid and the Quest for Tolerance
I took this picture last month in Lahore, Pakistan. I knew of this place, I knew what happened there on May 28, 2010. But actually standing before it and seeing the undeniable reality of it sucked the life out of me for a few seconds. This is a place of […]
Indian imams issue joint fatwa against IS, call it un-Islamic
Source: Islamic News Daily Describing the acts and actions of Islamic State as against the basic tenets of Islam, over 1,050 Islamic scholars in India have issued a fatwa against […]
These Technologies Will Shift the Global Balance of Power in the Next 20 Years
Source: Singularity University Governments, businesses, and economists have all been caught off guard by the geopolitical shifts that happened with the crash of oil prices and the slowdown of China’s economy. Most believe that the price of oil will recover and that China will continue its rise. They are mistaken. […]
Libya warns it could flood Europe with migrants if EU does not recognise new Islamist government
Source: The Telegraph Libya has issued a veiled threat to send “hundreds of thousands” of extra migrants to Europe if Brussels does not give official recognition to its self-declared Islamist […]
Rabbinical Council of America officially bans ordination and hiring of women rabbis
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency The Rabbinical Council of America, the main modern Orthodox rabbinical group, formally adopted a policy prohibiting the ordination or hiring of women rabbis. The policy announced Friday by the RCA came after a direct vote of its membership, according to the organization. The resolution states: “RCA members […]
With new chief rabbi, black Hebrew-Israelites make bid to enter the Jewish mainstream
Source: The Washington Post The Israelites walked slowly, chanting in Hebrew and wrapped in loose white robes. A reverential silence spread across the crowd as one figure emerged above the […]