Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s two-time former prime minister, has claimed Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” in a Twitter thread posted just hours after a Muslim man killed three people outside a church in Nice. In a 13-post Twitter thread uploaded [ Continue reading…]
When I made the choice to embrace Islam I thought it was one of the best decisions I had ever made. However my friends and family couldn’t understand why I did it. Why did I reject the “family religion” and choose to follow an “Asian” religion? I believe that deep [ Continue reading…]
As an Indian non-muslim who has observed Muslims for over 20 years, I can suggest the following: You can explain to the people by being a good Muslim. Don’t try to preach Islam to them, or Try to in any way suggest that Islam is the greatest religion, or Try [ Continue reading…]
By Ryan Grenoble In China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, an area with long-simmering unrest between the ethnic Uighur (pronounced “we-gur”) minority and the Han Chinese majority, the government has detained more than a million members of this and other Muslim groups in what’s been described as a “massive internment camp that is [ Continue reading…]
By Carol Kuruvilla Religious hate crimes have spiked dramatically in England and Wales over the past year, according to newly released data from the U.K.’s Home Office. Police in England and Wales recorded 8,336 hate incidents that appeared to be motivated by the victim’s religion between April 2017 and March [ Continue reading…]
By Carol Kuruvilla Pop star Zayn Malik has said he no longer considers himself a Muslim ― although he’s grateful for everything his childhood faith has taught him. The former One Direction singer opened up about his spiritual beliefs in British Vogue’s December issue. Malik, 25, was raised in a British [ Continue reading…]
By THEMRISE KHAN Let me be extremely clear. I am not in favour of Quebec’s religious neutrality law. As many have observed, Bill 62 contradicts the very idea of neutrality, breaches the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the political machinations of the legislation are all too obvious. The signs clearly [ Continue reading…]
Yes, it is a hope and blind belief. Is not it very illogical and strange belief! It does not make sense at all. Why does God give you eternal and blissful paradise forever for your few years work here on earth? How many years a human being live? It is [ Continue reading…]
By Niaz Ali According to Aaron Segal, professor of political science at the University of Texas, “by any index, the Muslim world produces a disproportionately small amount of scientific output and much of it relatively low in quality. In numerical terms, forty-one predominantly Muslim countries with about 20 percent of the [ Continue reading…]
By Ronald A. Lindsay Lately, the Associated Press published a story based on its analysis of leaked Islamic State (ISIS) recruitment documents. These documents indicate that, based on the recruits’ own self-evaluation, most ISIS recruits have only a basic knowledge of Islam. Some have argued that these “findings suggest religion has nothing to [ Continue reading…]