Tolerance toward other religions in Islam
Source: Arab News By M. ABDULSALAM; Published — Friday 27 November 2015 MANY mistakenly believe that Islam does not tolerate the existence of other religions present in the world. This article […]
Once Embraced by Chris Christie, New Jersey’s Muslims Feel Betrayed
Source: The New York Times The invitation arrived by email, bearing the seal of the State of New Jersey and the name of its new governor, Chris Christie. It asked […]
Preliminary report: Police mishandled Jhelum riots
Source:ET ISLAMABAD: The police are responsible for the Jhelum tragedy as the high-ups failed to address the religious sentiments of a mob which not only led to displacement of some 1,200 Ahmadiyya community members but also caused them huge business losses, according to a preliminary report said presented to Prime Minister […]
Riots in Jhelum
Source: ET There is no member of any religious minority in Pakistan that can sleep safe in their beds. The virulent intolerance displayed against minorities has left two groups particularly vulnerable to attack and discrimination — Christians and the Ahmadis. The latter have the added disadvantage of discriminatory practices being […]
USA: Admadiyya Muslim Community Bushy Park Holds First Interfaith Conference
Source: jamaica-gleaner.com Religious tolerance has eluded communities for many years and, according to Umair Khan, missionary in charge of the St Catherine Admadiyya Muslim Jamaat Mosque, there is hardly any effort being […]
How The UK Is Strengthening Interfaith Bonds After Paris Attacks
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Inter Faith Week has been celebrated in the UK since 2009. But this year, the terrorist attacks that gripped Paris […]
Tolerance: Cultural side of Islam by Pickthall, the first British Muslim
This is an article by by, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal, the first British Muslim. This is taken from a group of lectures given by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal in 1925. These were published by The Committee of Madras Lectures on Islam in 1927, under the title Cultural Side of Islam. We have […]
Why has Pakistan become so intolerant?
Mohsin Raza/Reuter PREACH 08.30.1512:01 AM ET Why Has Pakistan Become So Intolerant? I was beaten in Pakistan for my religion. I am far from alone. A Christian couple, parents of three children with a fourth on the way, were accused of blasphemy by a mob and incinerated in a brick […]
Duke University Chapel makes decision to broadcase Muslim call to prayer from its bell tower every Friday
By OLIVER O’CONNELL FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 15 January 2015 The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard every week across the campus of Duke University in North Carolina. The […]
17 things that change forever when you live abroad
MUso de cookie Mas Edimburgo: by Angie Castells — I originally wrote and published this article in Spanish. As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a few years, I look back and I know that squeezing our lives into a suitcase and leaving our native Barcelona was the […]
Religious tolerance in Islam
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 […]
Pope expresses good will to Muslims in letter to Sunni imam
Cairo, Egypt, Sep 23, 2013 / 01:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has indicated respect “for Islam and Muslims” in a letter to the head of the main cultural institution of Sunni Islam, marking the end of Ramadan. Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University, perhaps the highest authority in […]
Malaysia strips Singaporean of immigration privileges in dispute over Muslim prayer room
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, August 17, 5:06 PM KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities on Saturday revoked the immigration privileges held by a Singaporean man who offended some Muslims by allegedly letting Buddhists use an Islamic prayer room. The case has provoked debate about whether the government in Muslim-majority […]
Ahmadi Muslim Delegates Visit Nearly 400 U.S. Congressional Offices
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA. “As one of America’s oldest Muslim organizations, our Community firmly believes in the value of the democratic process,” said Amjad Mahmood Khan, National Director of Public Affairs for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and event organizer. “Our annual ‘Day on the Hill’ event reflects our […]
Islam’s sectarian divide has turned from mistrust to bitter violence
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, […]
Euro imams, rabbis pledge to combat hate preachers
Source: Jerusalem Post: PARIS – Seventy European Muslim and Jewish leaders pledged on Wednesday to show “zero tolerance” to hate preachers of any faith including their own ranks, citing what […]
INDONESIA: Top Muslim Groups Decry Attacks on Religious Liberty
Agus Triyono | May 22, 2012 THE JAKARTA GLOBE Trying to counter the growing intolerance in Indonesia, the country’s two largest Muslim organizations have expressed support for the protection of people’s constitutional rights to religious freedom amid several incidences of unilateral church foreclosures in the country. “By law, the government […]
Kenya: Ahmadiyya Muslims urge peace, tolerance
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Kenya has called for tolerance, harmony and peaceful coexistence as the country prepares for the next generation elections. Addressing faithfuls during their 46th Annual Convention at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Muranga Road, Nairobi on Saturday, the Kenyan head of the Mission Naeem Ahmed Mehmood Cheema urged […]
Overcoming Islamophobia in American elections
Individual tolerance or fear of different groups is not confined to political elites by DR. MUQTEDAR KHAN, ARABNEWS Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the […]
Judaism and Islam in America –
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/104712/sec_id/104712 Dialogue with Radical Muslims is Dangerous for American Jews by Jerry Gordon (January 2012) Introduction Jewish interfaith dialogue with Muslims has moved beyond mere episodes to one of joint services and soon, joint sanctuaries. It is an insidious form of Da’wah (call to Islam) that some Jewish communal groups […]