* Remarks start controversy at conference on Islam * Row already brewing over Salafists handing out Koran * Germany home...
Posted 04.09.2012
Meg Hitchcock's paper works are poignant meditations on language, religion and the mutability of the divine word. Hitchcock dissects holy texts, cuts ...
Anthony Amore | Posted 05.29.2012
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't a large number of Americans already paid -- with their lives -- to bring freedom from zealous theocracy to the oppressed people of Afghanistan? Allow me to introduce just one.
Lisa Schirch | Posted 04.29.2012
International forces need to make cultural sensitivity a priority in a mission focused on protecting civilians and addressing root causes through supporting governance and diplomacy, not waging war.
Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 05.16.2012
Violence against NATO troops by Afghan security forces in reponse to burning of the Quran at the Bagram Air Base has reignited doubts over the U.S. endgame in Afghanistan.
John Feffer | Posted 04.29.2012
How is it that the Pentagon and the Islamophobe, with their opposite views on Islam and intervention, end up generating a similar response in the Muslim world?
Malou Innocent | Posted 04.28.2012
How many more American soldiers and innocent Afghan civilians have to die before the Obama administration withdraws from Afghanistan?
AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 02.24.2012
SPOKANE, Wash. -- GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday a U.S. apology to Afghan authorities for burned Qurans on a military base was...
Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012
By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanista...
Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012
KABUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Demonstrators in the Afghan capital Kabul set fire on Wednesday to part of a housing compound used by foreign contract wor...
Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.01.2012
We can't find God, because, paradoxically, we are already the God that we are seeking.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 03.27.2012
Our aspiration shall be to imitate the prophets and messengers of God.
Terry Kelhawk | Posted 11.27.2011
America hasn't always found peaceful alternatives to stop aggression. Since 9//11 we've taken four steps along the path to end terrorism, but haven't yet taken step 5 -- the one with perhaps the greatest potential to de-claw terrorism, and to do it peacefully.
Michael Shank | Posted 11.22.2011
The propensity in the U.S. to conflate Islam with violence precludes the possibility of nonviolent Muslim protest motivated by an internal incentive, be it secular or religious. However, the concept of nonviolence is not foreign or new to Muslims.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 11.05.2011
But, mostly, I've felt distance from the Quran -- yes, it is the Holy Book, but if I cannot understand all the words in the language its meant to be recited in then how can it truly penetrate my heart and enlighten my soul?
Qasim Rashid | Posted 07.12.2011
Irshad Manji claims that not just Muslims, but the Quran and Islam itself need reformation. In doing so, Manji ignores the possibility that the owner's manual might be fine, while the issues lie with the owner.
Clay Farris Naff | Posted 07.09.2011
As an agnostic outsider, it's not for me to tell a billion plus Muslims just how to rekindle the progressive, rationalist tradition of Islam into a beacon of hope. But I can and must point out the need to do so.
Hoda Osman | Posted 06.25.2011
As a Muslim and an Arab I was by default attracted to Koran By Heart's subject matter. A film about an annual competition in reciting the Muslim holy book that takes place in my original hometown of Cairo.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.23.2011
This story was reported in collaboration with Jessica Carreras from Dearborn's Patch.com. Last month, the pastor of a tiny church in Florida dresse...
The Adam Carolla Show | Posted 06.21.2011
I know you're all pissed off about Terry Jones, the pastor that burned the Koran. You say 'He's so out of line, so insensitive.' Yes, he's a nut job, there's a nut job on every corner. But how about we start judging a religion that decides to kill people when you burn their text?
Reuters | Bernie Woodall | Posted 06.22.2011
April 23, 2011 2:01:48 AM By Bernie Woodall DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - A militant Christian preacher was jailed briefly Friday after a Mich...
Posted 06.19.2011
By Al Webb Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) A British former soldier has been jailed for burning a copy of the Quran in front of shoppers in Englan...
Qasim Rashid | Posted 06.08.2011
The Quran commands, "Take to forgiveness, and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant." "Turn away." A concept uncannily familiar to Jesus' "turn the other cheek" philosophy.
Harris Zafar | Posted 06.07.2011
If the Quran advocates for the beating of one's wife, then surely we should see examples of such behavior from the Prophet Muhammad -- but we do not.
Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski | Posted 06.05.2011
Turning the other cheek does not condone the wrong of the other, but it affords us an opportunity in our responses to break cycles of violence by not sowing more violence.
Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012