On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest on "The O’Reilly Factor" to address accusations Ms. Wafa Sultan had levied against Islam on "The Factor" one day earlier. Ms. Sultan commented on ...
2003-01-19T12:00:15-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/BookTV_default-image.jpgMembers of a Great Books discussion group talked about The Essential Koran: The ...
For the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, the idea that the Koran is a seventh-century text disseminated by Islam's founder, the Prophet Muhammad, is neither news nor particularly controversial. But in ...
This article first appeared on The Conversation. In the wake of the Paris attacks, political leaders have lined up to denounce the acts as inhuman and uncivilized, unworthy of our day and age. French ...
Isis has sharpened many people's sense of paranoia towards Islam. The majority of Muslims have a peaceful reading of the Koran, but as Isis commits more and more atrocities, the argument that the ...
My parents, brother and I were on vacation in Florida, and we were talking about Donald Trump. The idea of leaving America if a scary Republican wins has always been a joke among high-minded liberals ...
Book review (The Prophet of Non Violence: Spirit of Peace, Compassion and Universality in Islam by Asghar Ali Engineer, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Limited, New Delh, 2011, pages 246, Rs 395, HB) Last ...
Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian Muslim, joins the recent debate sparked by the full veil. It is part of a wider area that concerns the rights of women. He advocates a "direct approach 'to the sacred text, ...
Wilders'film has captured world headlines and caused heated debates (TV screen shot) The overnight posting of an anti-Islamic film by a right-wing Dutch politician has sparked widespread condemnation ...
In the wake of the latest UNESCO decision, Prof. Nissim Dana of the Middle Eastern Affairs Department at Ariel University discussed in an Arutz Sheva interview the early Islamic attitude towards the ...
A man who was convicted of a public order offence for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate while shouting 'f*** Islam' says he has received 'hundreds' of death threats since his ...