Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity: The Cathars
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Whatever the details of Cathars beliefs may be, it is certain that they did not believe in Jesus as the son of God or […]
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past and the Cathars …
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Religious fanaticism and forcing of ones beliefs on others is a bad news for the whole of humanity, whether it comes from the Mullahs […]
Elections: Only two Kinds of Pakistanis- Ahmadis or Non Ahmadis
COMMENT : Are Pakistan’s non-Muslims ‘dhimmis’? — Yasser Latif Hamdani No Pakistani is a dhimmi. All of us, whatever our faith, are equal citizens with equal obligations and equal responsibilities As Pakistan has mercifully completed one complete democratic cycle and is now heading towards, hopefully, a second one, one hopes that […]
Suicidal Bacteria: Unicellular Organisms Occasionally Poison Themselves With a Toxin
Source: ScienceDaily. Mar. 15, 2013 — The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have determined the logic governing this mechanism. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry(JBC) and PLoS ONE. […]
Britain and Islam
Source: Huff Post, by Matthew Goodwin. Behind a large Christian majority, and excluding the non-religious, the census reveals that Muslims are the second largest religious group, and are also the fastest growing. There are now more than 2.7million Muslims in England and Wales, an increase of over one million since […]
The Christians of Pakistan mean nothing to the Pope
Express Tribune Blogs: By Rohan Emmanuel: The last Pope, Benedict XVI, elected at the age of 78, was the oldest person to have been elected as pope since 1730. In February […]
Minorities in Pakistan should be Called “Non Muslim Pakistanis”
Dawn: Muneeb says blasphemy accused should be tried by FSC LAHORE: Religious scholars belonging to the Sunni school of thought have proposed that accused in blasphemy cases should be tried by the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) and the changes introduced by former president Gen (retd) Musharraf’s regime in the registration […]
Video: Spiritual Leadership, Is the Pope Elected by God?
Additional Reading Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity Belfast Telegraph: ‘World Muslim leader congratulates Pope Francis and the Catholic Church’ Introducing Islam to Pope Francis
Joke of the week – the old lady and the groceries …
An elderly lady was well-known for her Iman and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say Alhamdulilah “Allah be praised” to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her […]
Joke of the Day – the old and the new Imam
An Imam shocked his community when he announced that he was resigning from that particular Masjid and moving to a drier climate. After the session, a very distraught lady came to the Imam with tears in her eyes, “Oh, Imam, we are going to miss you so much. We don’t […]
Costly Iraq war left US no stronger in Middle East (but allowed Israel to continue its settlement construction)
AFP | Mar 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew a dictator, but 10 years on the war is seen to have destabilised the Middle East, exposed the limits of military power and left America no stronger than before. With US forces having withdrawn […]
Jordan downplays tensions with Damascus
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan downplayed reports of rising tensions with Damascus on Sunday, refuting accusations by Syrian officials of Jordanian support for rebel forces. Minister of […]
Born in war and poverty, youth don’t abandon Iraq (ten years after US invasion)
BAGHDAD: The 21-year-old college student in Baghdad lost her father during the Iraq War to gunmen from a rival Muslim sect. Now she dreams of an Iraq where all people […]
Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?
By BEN EHRENREICH NEW YORK TIMES On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi’s house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with […]
Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity
Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist? By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist?
By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus […]
William Lane Craig’s Confession: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, It is not Believable!’
William Lane Craig is one of the leading Christian apologists and it is useful for the Unitarians to have his confession, which I have paraphrased a little, to keep it short: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, it is not Believable!’ You can watch the […]
The Great Debate: Is Jesus God? ( 1 of 3 ) Sir Anthony Buzzard vs Dr. James White
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard states in the very beginning that Unity of a God is a […]
Who was Jesus? Man or God? debate – Sir Anthony Buzzard and Drew Ayers
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the New Testament alone, which forms only 25% of the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard has a very well […]
Transmission of Islamic science to Europe & Renaissance
By Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada Muslim scholars of Baghdad had translated scientific works from Greek, Pahlavi, Syriac, & Sanskrit into Arabic in the eighth and ninth centuries. Similarly […]