Fox News The number of Muslim converts who are risking prison or death by secretly worshipping as Christians in Iran’s house church movement has grown to as many as 1 million people, according to watchdog groups. The London-based Pars Theological Center is training at least 200 Iranian Continue Reading
How ISIS Spread in the Middle East
By David Ignatius “It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition: that it must be lived forwards.” This observation was made in 1843 by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in a journal entry, but it might have Continue Reading
Why Muslims Celebrate a Jewish Holiday
By Haroon Moghul (CNN)Muslims will be fasting this Friday. It's Ashura, the 10th day of the first month on the Islamic calendar. Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet Mohammed encountered Jews fasting on this day, who told them they were marking the Hebrews escape from Egypt, and he decided to Continue Reading
OLDEST KORAN ‘DESTABILISES’ ISLAMIC HISTORY, SCIENTISTS SAY IT PRE-DATES MOHAMMED
By Nick Hallett Fragments of an early Koran found in a Birmingham library may rewrite Islamic history after carbon dating revealed they could be older than Mohammed. Scientists at the University of Oxford had already revealed that the parchment was among the oldest known Koranic texts in the Continue Reading