Abdul Aziz, economist and former ISEC Director, has said that reasoning and consensus are central to Prophet Mohammed’s teachings, which should guide Muslims in the modern world.He was speaking on Islam, after inaugurating a lecture series on religions entitled “The Intellectual Movement from the Age of Certainty to Uncertainty” organized by the Karnataka Haridasa Scientific Research Centre in its...
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Ill congressman defends 'savage religion' comment < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateAn Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.U.S. Rep. Donald Manzullo told WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill., that alleged terrorists imprisoned at the Navy base are "really really mean people whose job it is to kill people, driven...
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size="2"> Rome, Oct. 26: An Italian MP has rejected calls by Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini for a possible Concordat or treaty with Islam to teach the religion in the country’s public schools as a way of improving integration with Muslim immigrants.
"Minister Frattini should know that a Concordat with Islam is impossible, because of the lack of an ‘Islamic...
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of Religions,' launched on Nov 1, would see various religious communities like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Baha'ism, Alevism, etc, in about 40 cities across Switzerland invite each other to their religious services.HINDUS HAVE applauded religious communities in Switzerland for promoting dialogue, coexistence and tolerance through a nationwide initiative of “Getting to Know Each...
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PATNA:God is one. So, the people of the world, professing different religions, are thesame offering obeisance to the one and the same God in their own words indifferent languages. And, this is what Yajurveda, Brahmsutra and Quran havementioned, claimed Syed Tariq Abdullah Engineer, president of the WorldOrganisation of Religions and Knowledge.He was delivering a talk onThe Conception of Harmony from...
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Various Sikh organisations staged a protest against the alleged kidnapping and conversion of a Sikh girl to Islam.''The girl was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam in Srinagar,'' the protesters alleged. They raised slogans against the government and police and demanded that the girl should be returned to her parents.However, the activists of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), BJP, National Sikh Youth...
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday.A reporter for Italy's ANSA news agency went undercover with the women, who were hired for euro50 ($75) by a modeling agency for the event Sunday evening. Journalist Paola Lo Mele...
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(AP) - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday.A reporter for Italy's ANSA news agency went undercover with the women, who were hired for euro50 ($75) by a modeling agency for the event Sunday evening. Journalist Paola Lo Mele...
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religion condones terrorism and those attempting to attribute its origin to Islam display "downright prejudice", Vice President Hamid Ansari said Tuesday.Terrorism is not of "recent origin but globalization and technology have now made it trans-national in reach and devastating in its impact", he said.Ansari was speaking after inaugurating the second international conference on terrorism organised...
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religion condones terrorism and those attempting to attribute its origin to Islam display "downright prejudice", Vice President Hamid Ansari said Tuesday.Terrorism is not of "recent origin but globalization and technology have now made it trans-national in reach and devastating in its impact", he said.Ansari was speaking after inaugurating the second international conference on terrorism organised...
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