25th March 2024

Religious tolerance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) needs a major improvement. If they are to truly modernise,then the KSA has to treat Christians, Jews and others much more fairly.

There is no point in modernising without genuine tolerance of non-Islamic faith in the KSA. Read more to find out.

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31st December 2023

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a radical Islamist from north Africa who was also an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic movement. As a teenager, she participated in the public burning of Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” and she was well-versed in Islamic radical teachings and the Quran, Islam’s holy book. 

Today, she is a convinced Christian after leaving both Islam and atheism, which she subscribed to after leaving Islam. Ayaan also wrote many books to her credit: Infidel: My Life (2006), The Caged Virgin (2004), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), The Challenge of Dawa (2017) and Prey (2021), among others.

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30th October 2023

There actually IS Peace between Jews, Christians and ex-Muslims in Israel. What some call a ‘Forbidden Peace,’ is the true Peace given by the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ to all mankind.

Watch this documentary to see how the Jews and Arabs find peace and restoration in their life here.

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26th September 2023

Some Islamic propogandists say “We love Jesus, too.” in their missionary tracts and dawah writings. But IS the Jesus Muslims claim, the same as the Jesus of the Gospel in the Holy Bible?

30 million Christians in Indonesia do not think so. Christians in the world’s most populated Muslim country disagree that the Jesus in the Bible is the same as that found in the Quran. The Indonesian government just announced a change in the use of terms referring to Jesus Christ in official documents responding to long-standing demands of Christians not to use Islamic terms. Read more here.

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21st August 2023

Iran’s religious landscape is facing a major challenge as a senior cleric reveals that a staggering number of mosques, 50,000 out of 75,000, have been closed due to dwindling attendance.

The cleric attributes this decline to the government’s oppressive actions, which have led people to lose faith in the religion. As Iranians increasingly question the regime’s use of Islam to justify its brutal dictatorship, violent protests have erupted, highlighting the growing unrest and dissatisfaction among the populace. What does this mean for Iran’s future, and how will the government respond to the waning influence of religion in the country?

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That the Quran “is uncreated,” was the position among the majority Muslims of the Sunni sect. But on the other hand, the Shia Muslims argue conversely that the Quran was created at a point in time. The disputes and arguments over which was true became a big, contentious point of religious conflict and divisive quarrel in early Islam (e.g. the ‘mihnat khalaq al-Quran’ etc.).

But aside from its theological conflicts and internal Islamic religious controversies and uncertainties, the normal intellectual and scholastic worlds are equally interested in the “Creating of the Quran,” from its unclear historical beginnings. Hence the Book title “Creating the Quran, A Historical-Critical Study” by Stephen Shoemaker, a professor and scholar at the University of Oregon with PhD and postgraduate degrees from Duke and Harvard universities and specialist on the history of Christianity and the beginnings of Islam. He adds perspectives from radiocarbon dating of manuscripts, the linguistic history of Arabic, the social and cultural history of late ancient Arabia, and the limitations of human memory and oral transmission, as well as various peculiarities of the Qur’anic text itself. Considering all the relevant data to present the most comprehensive and convincing examination of the origin and evolution of the Qur’an available, Shoemaker concludes that the canonical text of the Qur’an was most likely produced only around the turn of the eighth century, nearly two hundred years after the death of Muhammad. 

If you are interested to read the book, here is a good news for you. It is an open-access resource, and you may download the ebook here.

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Christians Celebrate Easter to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead after His crucifixion. In fact, Jesus Christ mentioned and prophesized His own crucifixion before it happened in Matthew 16:13-23.

However, He also mentioned that He will be coming back to life again after the resurrection. The Early Church celebrate this in 1 Corinthians 15:3-9.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:3-6 (NIV)

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Recent papers submitted by the DGPs and IGPs at the three-day annual conference, that was attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, national security adviser Ajit Doval and about 350 top police officers of the country.

Here are snippets from the annual DGPs and IGPs conference discussion:

The challenges for the national security for the radicalization of the India Muslim youths by some radical organizations are:

High level of indoctrination. These organisations are engaged in radical interpretation of Islamic scriptures and concepts, They also create a sense of victimhood in Muslim psyche. In pursuit of puritanical Islam, they preaching go against modern values such as democracy and secularism. The PFI (Popular Front of India), was the most potent radical organisation. It evolved as a national-level organization since formation in 2006 by merging three South-Indian based outfits.

Further, the papers suggested, to a tackle radical organisations, multi pronged approach is required, including monitoring of covert activities, creation of detailed data basis on leaders and other entities of interest.

And quote: “Emphasis should be given to identify and monitoring the hotspots of radicalization and prior analysis must be done about the potentiality of a radical organization in spreading extremism involvement of its cadres in violent action and accordingly the plan of action should be initiated, the papers noted.

The complete information has been retrieved and can be followed on The Times of India and other news media platforms: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/radicalisation-of-muslim-youth-a-major-challenge-for-national-security-papers-submitted-at-meet-of-dgps/articleshow/97251103.cms.

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