Imams in Glasgow have told all Muslims throughout Scotland not to vote for any local election candidate on 3 May who supports redefining marriage. The news will trouble the leaders of major parties, all of whom have indicated their personal support for the plan. A statement was issued yesterday by the Council of Glasgow Imams Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Islam’
Discrimination, little freedom: One million Christians ‘hidden’ in Arabia
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
It is a phenomenon not often spoken about; but the Arabic peninsula, homeland of Islam, pullulates with Christians. For most of them the next few days will be a rare and limited moment of visibility, after which they return to living a very discreet life of faith. It is almost a subterranean community in Saudi Read more
Some Islamic clerics take hard line on suicide bombers
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012Islamic clerics are denying suicide bombers their last rites. The killing of others and themselves is completely un-Islamic, they say, contrary to the popular misconception that such bombers act on the pretense that such acts will get them into heaven.
“Most suicide attackers act on the misconception that their acts receive the pleasure of Allah, but the fact is they are killing and injuring innocent Muslims,” Maulana Muhammad Rehman, a prayer leader in a mosque in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas says.
In addition, religious scholars in Pakistan say suicide bombers are likely to suffer eternal damnation rather than go to paradise because their acts, blowing themselves up and others, invite the wrath of Allah.
Read the article...On ignorance of Islam…and the bogey man
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran had this to say in a recent interview on the Al Jazeera television network: We succeeded in avoiding the clash of civilizations; let us avoid the clash of ignorance’…. There is fear of Islam, but it is due to ignorance…. When you speak to these people—I have spoken to so many of these Read more
Sonny Bill stays mum on Murray’s Muslim moment
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Sonny Bill Williams has so far not responded to a comment made by broadcaster Murray Deaker about his religion. Williams is a Muslim. In February, Deaker declared on Sky TV that he did not like Williams: “He is a Muslim, in a so-called Christian country, and that makes me uncomfortable.” Sky will not release the Deaker on Read more
Christianity needs AK47’s for BBC to take complaints seriously
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Mark Thompson the Director General of the BBC has admitted Christianity is treated with less sensitivity than other religions because it is “pretty broad shoulders” reports The Telegraph. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview about faith and broadcasting, Mr Thompson disclosed that producers were faced with the possibilities of “violent threats” instead of normal complaints if Read more
The Baroness and the Pope
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
If inter-faith gestures — gimmicks though they might be — help reduce tensions, then let’s have more of them. Such was the media hype that anyone even sleep-walking through Britain last week couldn’t have failed to notice the news of the country’s “first female Muslim Cabinet Minister”, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, launching a spirited defence of Read more