Christian doctrine does not approve of sexual assault or rape. . Doctrinally informed Christians are also more realistic in their view of Islam as defined by its own foundational documents, doctrines, and history: the Koran, and the Sunna—the words and acts of Muhammad, Islam’s supreme..…
On the basis of this position, every current of political Islam chooses to conduct its struggle on the terrain of culture—but “culture” reduced in actual fact to the conventional affirmation of belonging to a particular religion. ... The local comprador bourgeoisies, the nouveaux riches,..…
Islam is the most common government-endorsed faith, with 27 countries (including most in the Middle East-North Africa region) officially enshrining Islam as their state religion. By comparison, just 13 countries (including nine European nations) designate Christianity or a particular..…
Christians faced widespread harassment in 2015, but mostly in Christian-majority countries . 10 facts about religion in America . Topics: Christians and Christianity, Muslims and Islam, Religious Affiliation, Europe . . ..…
The men face the death penalty for following a different interpretation of Islam than the one sanctioned by the government. And, in Pakistan, police are currently pursuing a Christian accused of sending an allegedly blasphemous poem to a friend. ..…
In May 2014, for example, man from the city of Ajloun confessed to killing his daughter after she converted from Christianity to Islam. The murder, and subsequent disputes over whether the woman should be buried in Muslim or Christian cemetery, set off two days of protests and violent..…
In every one of those cases, by the way, just imagine if we were talking about people pushing Islam instead of Christianity, and the concerns become much more obvious. . ... Some Christian institutions face pressure to conform to secularist ideology — or else. ..…
Expatriate gay conservative Bruce Bawer argues in While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within that liberals in Europe (he now lives in Oslo, Norway) are responsible for the rise in radical Islam in the European Union. This is, according to Bawer, a Christian,..…
The Richard Haass article The Political Challenge of Militant Islam shows the kind of distortions and half-truths in. ..…
watchdog group that guards against in religion has asked federal judge to stop the city from giving $297,500 in public funds to anti-hunger program to be conducted by Baptists in advance of their national conference here next week.. ..…
Many of these countries, such as Nigeria and Ethiopia, are situated between the predominantly Muslim Maghreb of North Africa and the more solidly Christian countries in the southern part of the continent. Islam also is the second-largest religion in India, after Hinduism. . ..…
More than one-in-ten immigrants identify with a non-Christian faith, such as Islam or Hinduism. . ..…
One of them is the matter of timing: whereas Christian and Jewish reform evolved over centuries, in relatively organic and self-generated—albeit often bloody—fashion, the challenge to Islam of such concepts as empirical reasoning, the nation-state, the theory of evolution, and..…
By their fathers for couple of goats, Much like most practicing Western Christian women are not sold to future husbands, many Muslim women embrace very different interpretation of Islam than what we in the headlines or read in Qur'an.. the arrogance of assuming all women experience Muslim..…
But Obama's for Islam, is not preventing him from taking action.. This is the sort of bullshit that Christian conservatism is built upon. ..…
It is focused on the role of anti-Judaism as a constitutive idea and an explanatory force in Christian and post-Christian thought—though it starts with Egyptian arguments against the Jews and includes a discussion of early Islam, whose writers echo, and apparently learned from,..…
He released 1,000 Salafists from Syrian jails, knowing they would attack the Alawite (a branch of Shia Islam) and Christian minorities. ..…
Wherever Islam-inspired governments emerge, the international community should focus on encouraging, and if need be pressuring, them to respect basic rights—just as the Christian-labeled parties and governments of Europe are expected to do. Embracing political Islam need not mean rejecting..…
Muslims religious beliefs tend to be orthodox for example, 92% believe in Day of Judgment and 90% believe in angels, both of. ..…