Tagged: Islam

Can the Ground Zero Mosque be a test of Muslim tolerance?

Christopher Hitchens brings out a great point in this brief excerpt from A Test of Tolerance (emphasis added): Emboldened by the crass nature of the opposition to the center, its (the Ground Zero Mosque’s)...

Weekend Links: Islam, History, Kashmir and AI

Start your weekend with this thought-provoking excerpt from Rethinking Islam, extracted from Ziauddin Sardar’s “Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures” (emphasis mine): …But the violence performed to sacred Muslim concepts is insignificant compared to the...

This is how China treats its religious minorities

Some of you may have picked up the news on Friday that US has (once again) included China in its list of  “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs) mentioned in the International Religious Freedom’s annual report*. ...