A few days later the local police used tear gas outside the local mosque that was full for Friday Ramadan prayers, further inflaming the situation, which could now be portrayed as an attack on Islam itself. ..…

I wonder where Omar Mateen, who mass-murdered 49 patrons of Florida gay club yesterday, got the idea that homosexuality is affront. ..…

While religions like Islam say that, during Ramadan, you're not supposed to eat during daylight hours, some followers of Jainism promote fasting for long stretches at time. ..…

It's important to keep in mind, however, that despite lower levels of commitment on some measures, majorities of Muslims across most of Central Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe nonetheless subscribe to core tenets of Islam, such pillars of the faith as fasting during Ramadan and annual..…

In France, proponents of law banning the wearing of religious symbols in schools say it protects Muslim girls from being forced to wear headscarf, and the law also restricts those. ..…

So that was the situation, really through the early period, and then the argument that I make is against sort of received wisdom that you sometimes hear from the religious right. ..…