America is still better than Saudi Arabia!

Islam and Human Rights 16 Aug 2008, NewAgeIslam.Com America is still better than Saudi Arabia!   The stories of Deaths and Torture in Detention that keep coming out of the US of A tell us that perhaps there is nothing much to choose between America and a totalitarian state like Saudi Arabia. After all, they are close allies too.  But one has to admit that we at least know – even though human rights bodies seem helpless in trying to DO anything about it – of some glaring cases of torture going on in American prisons, but that is not the case with the bastion of Islam, the religion that can be called the original champion of Human Rights, which practically...

Islam and Hinduism: Don’t let extremists exploit religion

Islam and Pluralism 16 Aug 2008, NewAgeIslam.Com Islam and Hinduism: Don't let extremists exploit religion   By Dr Khalid Hameed  This is the text of a speech delivered by Dr Khalid Hameed, CBE, on "Citizenship and Harmony" during a dialogue between Hindus and Muslims at the Nehru Centre in London on May 19:  The main divisive influence in our lives now at the beginning of the 21st century, even ahead of race, is religion. We are witnessing an upsurge of extremism which the psychologists blame on all sorts of reasons. For whatever reason, religion is under threat of being exploited by extremists to achieve their nefarious political agenda. ...

Religion: Three Religions, One God

Islam and Pluralism 16 Aug 2008, NewAgeIslam.Com Religion: Three Religions, One God   Judaism  A brief history of Judaism   Judaism is the oldest surviving monotheistic religion, arising in the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C.E. Abraham is traditionally considered to be the first Jew and to have made a covenant with God. Because Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all recognize Abraham as their first prophet, they are also called the Abrahamic religions.            While there was always a small community of Jews in historic Palestine, in 73 C.E. the Roman Empire dispersed...