If women suicide bombers expect respect from their male counterparts, they are sorely mistaken. It appears that women are being inducted into terrorist ranks to mock the masculinity of Muslim men. Professor Mohammad Hafiz, an expert on Islamic...
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Pope Benedict XVI has responded to the invitation of Islamic scholars for dialogue. He plans to meet Islamic scholars in the spring. MSNBC quotes the head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran,...
Is it wrong to proclaim one's Faith? How is it never wrong to wear a Cross on the neck as a mark of being Christian? How is it that atheists write of their faiths in Nothing and yet never make news? Then why is it that the International Herald...
By now, all of us have heard of the war torn Chechnya. What we are not aware of is the fact that Chechen rebels are actually appreciating Islam and the President is doing almost everything to revive the Sufi movement in this part of the world. Here...
At the heart of the surge of global terrorism is the conflict among religions. Faith proves a strong reason for many to turn against humanity and the world religious leaders are now trying their very best to teach the people how to maintain peace and...
Robert Spencer is a well known Islamic scholar. And that, he might be thinking, gives him the right to write anything about his subject. His recent article at The Front Page Magazine sets out to show how the Muslims kill each other. No one is...
Religion is a dangerous topic to write on. Everyone except God seems to be touchy about it. A recent document earlier this month by Muslim clerics to the Pope and other Church figures invites dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Otherwise, the...
When the anti-Muslim sentiments are running high in the western hemisphere, caused by unraveling terror plots and radical-Islamic face of global terror forces led by Al Qaeda, a stage managed London conference by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a fundamentalist...
A Freedom House report in the United States of America said that textbooks used in Saudi Arabia's schools were promoting religious intolerance. Religions other than the Salafi branch of Islam are demonised, beginning in the first grade. 'Every religion...
Mercurial Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who has been on a crusade against Islam for the last several years, has said in an interview published this week that the Western world is in danger of being engulfed by radical Islam, reports the Daily...
Demand for classes in Islamic Studies, Islam and Middle East has skyrocketed in the United States in the wake of 9/11 attack, the invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq war. These areas are increasingly considered relevant to global security.
Reacting to...
Seventy-five women have been converted to Islam from January to this month with the help of Discover Islam's Ladies Section in Bahrain, reports the Gulf Daily News. The women's nationalities included British, Russian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Filipina,...
Malek Chebel, a renowned anthropologist focusing on the Arab world, is one of today's prominent French-speaking North African(Algerian)intellectuals. In 2004, he established, in France, the Foundation for an Enlightened Islam. He has published some 20...
A Georgia (The U.S.)Tech student born in Pakistan has been in federal custody for nearly a month, apparently because authorities suspect a videotape he made of a building may have been related to terrorism, his family said. Syed Haris Ahmed, a...
In a clarion message on the eve of Ed al-Adha on January 10, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdul-Aziz-al-Sheik told more than two million Muslim pilgrims: "The Shariat does not allow terrorism. Islam literally means peace. Brothers, unite for...
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