Huff Post: by Aamir Hussain — One aspect of puja that really resonated with me was music. However, I soon discovered that Islam did have a semi-musical tradition in spirituality, and that it was sometimes not emphasized. One form of this was the art of tajweed: eloquent, almost musical recitation of […]
The Washington Times: The British government said Wednesday it needs new powers to help combat the spread of violent extremist Islam, including administrative authority to ban groups and restrict the […]
Source: BBC By Paul Rincon: Science editor, BBC News website The discovery of DNA in a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone will open up a new frontier in the study of […]
Recognise only Sunni Islam as official religion, says Umno Youth Umno Youth wants the country’s constitutional definition of Islam changed to Sunni Islam, a call that reflects the country’s increasingly hostile attitude towards Shia Muslims. The youth wing of the country’s largest party of Muslims wants Umno lawmakers to introduce […]
Tuesday 03 December 2013 DutchNews.nl Blasphemy will be removed from the statute books following a majority vote in the upper house of parliament on Tuesday. However, a second motion was […]
By Nariman Gizitdinov – Dec 3, 2013 Given the choice between love and money, Samal, a tall, curly-haired 23-year-old woman from a village in southern Kazakhstan, would take the cash. […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Women of Dietzenbachr Ahmadiyya Muslim community held a baking contest this past Sunday for a good cause . 35 participants competed with their cakes and pies and 1,200 Euros […]
Source: capitalbay.com After the unexpected success of History Channel’s miniseries ‘The Bible’ earlier this year, the network has a new show in the works about Jesus’ so-called ‘lost years.’ Deadline.com exclusively […]
Source: cmcsoxford.org.uk This coming Saturday, December 7th, the Centre is holding a one-day symposium entitled ‘Muslim Views of the Bible: Past and Present’. But why hold a symposium on this topic? What […]
Source: thenewsstar.com The view that the United States never claimed to be a “Christian nation” has become prevalent and expected. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In a previous letter, I provided quotes from Founding Fathers showing otherwise. The following are passages from a number of the original state constitutions. […]
Source: LUBP By Richard Walker To the rest of the world they are strange bedfellows, but Saudi Arabia and Israel have a shared agenda to shape the Middle East to their liking even if it means using violence and terrorism to bring the region to the brink of war. More:
Source: Asia Times: By Mikhail A Molchanov After Ukraine’s pro-European protesters took to the streets to denounce the government’s backtracking on the European Union Association Agreement, things went south for both the protesters and the government. While protesters were beaten up by the police, the government endured a siege of […]
Source: Asia Times: By Mikhail A Molchanov After Ukraine’s pro-European protesters took to the streets to denounce the government’s backtracking on the European Union Association Agreement, things went south for both the protesters and the government. While protesters were beaten up by the police, the government endured a siege of […]
Source: Asia Times: GENEVA – As the Syrian crisis is poised to enter into its third year, it is estimated that 25% of the country’s inhabitants have been uprooted, including more than 2 million refugees abroad and about 4.5 million internally displaced people. With the conflict showing no sign of […]
Vatican City: Where the First and the Second Vatican Councils were held Lead article written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A Journey from Christianity to Islam: First Ecumenical Council to Vatican II (325 CE – 1965 CE) Written and collected by Zia […]
posted by Zia Shah Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of their imagination, […]
November 23, 2013 Goshen News Jesus is central to Christianity, likely more so than Mohammed is to Islam or the Buddha to Buddhism, and this importance of Jesus seems to have produced claims about him beyond the story in the canonical Gospels. Recently Karen L. King, a professor at Harvard, […]
As this brown, bearded Muslim was getting ready to pick up his Thanksgiving turkey order from a local Boston Market, news broke of racist graffiti in New York city. Dr. Faheem YounusMuslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist HUFFPOST RELIGION Gap had recently launched a holiday ad campaign featuring diverse models. One […]
Source: BBC By Tim Mansel News of a secret police register in Sweden containing the names of 4,000 people, most of them Roma, has tarnished the Swedish reputation for tolerance and resulted in anti-Roma prejudice being described as the last “acceptable racism” in the country. “When I saw this I […]
by Omar Shahid Omar Shahid is a freelance journalist specialising in religious affairs. He blogs at: omarshahid.co.uk Ten years ago, a young and unassuming British-Azerbaijani, who’d recently had a spiritual […]