Posts tagged islam
Why The UK Has Been Overwhelmed By Anti-Muslim Riots

(EXPLAINER) Riots have erupted across the United Kingdom over the past week as far-right groups launched attacks against hotels housing asylum seekers and mosques. A heavy security presence on Wednesday and a series of arrests across Britain has prevented a repeat of widespread rioting involving racist attacks targeting Muslims and other migrants that started late last month.

Read More
Muslims Welcome Ramadan Amid Heightened Security And Concern For Gaza

Muslims around the world welcomed the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday with some trepidation given the war in Gaza and political and religious turmoil taking place across the Middle East. Ramadan — the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar — is a period observed by Muslims worldwide.

Read More
Religious Liter-AI-cy: An Interview With ChatGPT About Religion, Part 2

This week in our Talking to Tech series, we conducted another interview with ChatGPT-4. This was the second in a three-part interview. The first two involve questions specifically relating to the three monotheistic faiths. 

Read More
Drug Addiction Surges In Contested Regions Of Jammu and Kashmir

According to the latest figures given in the Parliament, the region with a population of 14 million has almost 1 million drug addicts. The consequence of such a massive upswing in drug addiction has taken a heavy toll on a society pounded by conflict and political uncertainty.

Read More
An Old Question That’s Back In The News: Why Can’t Non-Muslims Visit Mecca And Medina?

(OPINION) Daniel Pipes penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month urging Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to end Islam’s long-standing ban against non-Muslims entering the faith’s two holiest locations, Mecca, where the Prophet Muhammad issued the Quran and founded the religion 14 centuries ago, and Medina, where he led the first Muslim state.

Read More
How Ramadan got its name: 6 questions answered

Ramadan, which spans the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is a full month of religious fasting. The associate professor of religious studies and director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University answers six questions about its importance.

Read More
This Sikh family performed last rites for unclaimed COVID-19 patients. Then they caught the virus

Jatindra Shunty and his family have helped cremate or bury the unclaimed poor in New Delhi for years. Now during a pandemic, they are also performing last rites for COVID-19 patients, whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, aiming to give dignity in rest to people who may not have been treated with dignity in life.

Read More
Congress Probes Chinese Catholic Bishop's Assumed Death, Religious Freedom in China

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan Congressional caucus, held a panel on July 30 to discuss the imprisonment, torture and believed death of Catholic Bishop James Su Zhimin. Su’s treatment by the Chinese Communist Party is representative of other violations of religious freedom in the country, and panelists believe it is time for the Holy See to cut ties with the country.

Read More
Mainstream media should look to Black press, include religion news for better coverage of current events

(OPINION) The white-majority mainstream media often ignore the news of Black religion. Reporters should pay more attention to how African-American newspapers are treating the coronavirus crisis, with its disproportionate impact on communities of color, alongside the nationwide reckoning on police conduct, structural racism and protests.

Read More
Is Genocide Happening In Nigeria As The World Turns A Blind Eye?

(OPINION) Thousands of Christians in Nigeria have been affected by a litany of mass atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram and Fulani herders. The Nigerian government should respond with comprehensive investigations and prosecutions, but it is clear that will not happen until we, as an international community, recognize the nature and severity of these crimes.

Read More
'A Very British Muslim Activist' tells story of Islamist-turned-peacemaker

(REVIEW) Ghayasuddin Siddiqui founded a handful of Islamist organizations in the U.K. and feels responsible for attitudes that may have inspired London’s Islamic terrorist attacks. By the nineties, he recanted his Islamist views and today leads social justice and assimilation efforts in the British Muslim community.

Read More
Protests in Lebanon are testing unity among faiths and sects

Nearly three weeks of protests in Lebanon has united people across sectarian religious groups and signaled hopes of a new political system that could redefine how religious affiliation is lived in society.

Read More