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 […]
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, […]