The truth hurts: Canada’s Governor General Julie Payette mocks religion, creationism, and the idea of “divine intervention” while speaking to scientists. Earlier this week Canada’s Governor General Julie Payette delivered the keynote speech […]
Arab News | Published — Thursday 18 May 2017 LONDON: Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL), told participants at the League’s “Tolerance in Islam” conference […]
It is quite a popular thing to trample on religious liberty of the citizens of Pakistan provided it is done in the name of Islam By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 15-May-17 I hate to keep repeating myself, but repeat myself I must so long as necessary. Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a party founded […]
Reuters International MAR 30, 2017 BEIJING (Reuters) – China will step up a campaign against religious extremism in the far western region of Xinjiang on Saturday by implementing a range […]
The European Court of Justice ruled this week that employers can refuse to employ staff who insist on wearing headscarves – but the implications of the ruling are complex and do not necessarily constitute an attack on one particular faith Janet Street-Porter 16 hours ago Halima Aden appeared on the […]
01/09/2017 Kashif N Chaudhry Physician, Writer, Human Rights Activist This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. “It was a mistake, and I assure […]
Jewel Topsfield Karuni Rompies Jakarta: Permadi Arya became famous – or infamous, depending on how you look at it – for his satirical YouTube videos lampooning extremism. One of them, You are Shiite, sends up those who preach that only Sunni Muslims will be guaranteed a plot of land in […]
By Erich Follath SPIEGEL.DE Nowhere in the world are there more Muslims living in one place than in the Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia, which will be a guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this fall. Can a cosmopolitan faith assert itself against Islam? A journey. He […]
Posted: 18/05/2015 Fiyaz Mughal Become a fanDirector of Faith Matters and the Tell MAMA project In February of this year I drafted this article asking whether anyone really cared about the Shia of Pakistan. The brutal butchery committed by local extremist groups in Pakistan has […]
By Jakarta Globe on 12:11 am Apr 25, 2014 Indonesia’s Constitution, the country’s highest legal authority, has clearly guaranteed the right of any citizen or group of people to live or exist here and practice their religion or beliefs as long as they don’t disrupt others. So there are no […]
WHILE on deathbed, Sayyidna Omar ibn Al-Khattab (mercy be upon him) dictated a long will consisting of instructions for the next caliph. Here is the last sentence of that historic […]
Sandra Siagian & Yuli Krisna | April 15, 2013 jakarta globe While Indonesia grapples with the a rise in acts of violence against religious minorities across the country, several rights groups have pointed to West Java as a significant hotspot for intolerance. In the past four months, a Christian minister […]
BEKASI, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian authorities on Thursday shut down a mosque of the minority Muslim Ahmadiyah sect, in the latest sign of growing religious intolerance in the country. Dozens of followers of the sect scuffled with officials putting up a fence around the Al-Misbah mosque on the outskirts of […]
By Edward Cody, The Washington Post VIERZON, France — When the Rev. Alain Krauth preached to his dwindling flock at Mass last Sunday, the subject was real estate. But it […]
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk death Nushin Arbabzadah GUARDIAN CO UK In the Kabul of the 1980s, […]
The Jakarta Globe: June 1 is commemorated as Pancasila Day, the philosophical foundation of the Indonesian state that bridges the country’s diversity. Unfortunately today, there are some people who have […]
A Madin Islamic Academy release here on Tuesday said that the award was aimed at strengthening the message of harmony and tolerance. It said that Yusufali was selected for the award in recognition of his promotional programmes on interfaith harmony initiatives that fortify the great slogan — unity in diversity. […]
Courtesy Reuters: John Lloyd Multiculturalism is a Western ideal, amounting to a secular faith. Every Western government at least mouths its mantras – that a mix of peoples in one […]
Yesterday, Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird MP, visite d the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at the Fazl Mosque in London. His Excellency, Gordon […]
Indonesia battles religious intolerance From Mr David J. Critchley. Sir, Why, asks David Pilling, is Indonesia growing so slowly (“Just two cheers for a sputtering Indonesian dream”, December 15)? One […]