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, by KHALID Amna
Painting depicting Muhammad receiving his first Quranic revelation through the Angel Gabriel included in a Persian manuscript written by Rashid al-Din, a famous 14th-century Muslim vizier and historian. (Edinburgh University Library) [for copyright reasons, we cannot reproduce it here] (...)
, by Petition
To: The Board of Trustees, Hamline University
We are an international group of scholars and students, Muslim and non-Muslim, specializing in Islamic History, Islamic Studies, History of Art, Islamic Art History, and allied fields in the arts and humanities writing to express our outrage that (...)
, par ZUCKERMAN Phil
The midterm elections are likely to return to Congress elected representatives who hold a range of religious beliefs.
But while self-identified Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus currently rub shoulders in the corridors of power, one group is noticeably absent : atheists. And (...)
, by DW News
The mainstream Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found that 1,006 charitable foundations provided nearly $125 million to 39 anti-Muslim groups that spread toxic Islamophobia between 2014 and 2016.
American philanthropic organisations, including mainstream foundations, have funneled (...)
, by SADEQUE Samira
Ilhan Omar made history as one of the first Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress. Her victory was bold, it was timely, and it is what many American Muslims were waiting for at a time when Islamophobia is at a record high. I wanted to feel a surge of pride when I watched Omar’s victory, to (...)
, by MICHAELSON Jay
With wins in federal and state legislatures, Republicans gear up to exempt religious conservatives from any laws they don’t like (especially the ones about gays and women).
Elections are funny things. They’re often about issues that governments cannot actually control: jobs, cultural shifts, (...)
, by MICHAELSON Jay
The Supreme Court allows Christians to make up their own scientific facts—and threatens its own legitimacy in the process.
Today’s Hobby Lobby ruling may be a setback, in the long run, to the conservative crusade for “religious liberty.”
As much media coverage has discussed, at issue in Hobby (...)
, by STEWART Katherine
The religious right in the US backs GOP climate change denial because science also supports evolution against creationism.
Now that Sandy has exacted a steep toll in lives and property, the question is unavoidable: why do so many people in America refuse to take climate science seriously?
I (...)
, by POSNER Sarah
Richard Mourdock, Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, explained his opposition to rape exceptions to abortion bans last night: “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”
Read Irin Carmon’s post at Salon, about how and why this (...)
, by CFI, LINDSAY Ronald A.
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Paul Fidalgo Phone: (207) 358-9785 E-mail: press centerforinquiry.net Conventions’ Fixation on Religion Lamented by Secular Group September 07, 2012
Statement from Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, on the conclusion of (...)
, by WILLIAMS Patricia J.
I was in Nottingham, England, when evangelical minister Terry Jones and the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida, seized control of the global media stage by soaking a Koran in kerosene and setting it aflame. This occurred after a so-called “trial” of Islam for being “of the Devil.” (...)
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