Readers write in about Hansie Smit’s Cape Town, the image of islam, and the need for strong women.
The vice-chancellor rightly withdrew the Jyllands-Posten editor’s invitation. But failure to consult the student body was unwise.
Far from the world becoming secular, there will be almost six billion Christian and Muslim believers by 2050, according to a series of reports.
The church will see most of its future growth in the Global South, with Islam set to follow suit.
While one reader sees Islam as an ‘aggressive religion’, another blames the West for the damage caused by colonialism – and scapegoating Muslims.
Boko Haram had used Islamic schools to promote their violent ideology to youth, now these schools are trying to make a change by teaching peace.
A false rumour about the new owner of a Picasso painting leads Christianity to go haywire.
As we continue to reel from the horrific massacre in Paris, let us all be Charlie – a new byword for global solidarity against the tyranny of fear.
Australians are in shock after the Sydney cafe siege as authorities investigate why its perpetrator remained at large despite a history of extremism.
For we gender activists the Open Mosque is not quite so new. For over 20 years we’ve waged a gender jihad to gain inclusive access to mosques.
When we commemorate the Westgate massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we must not conflate the religion with extremism.
Ugandan troops have killed 41 attackers in a battle with "tribal gunmen" in a western district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The 20-year deadlock has been broken. The next step is to designate women as marriage officers, write Fatima Seedat and Farhana Ismail.
The UK has enforced the inspection of 15 schools in Birmingham after an anonymous letter alleging a plot to force leaderhip change at four schools.
After being asked to ban the term "Islamist militants" in the media since an SABC error, the BCCSA says such a ruling would "smack of censorship".
Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith spiked last year, with Syria accounting for more than total worldwide deaths in 2012.
Sheikhs unanimously agree to allow online
store for erotic marital assistance to go ahead.
We look at Julius Malema’s court case and giant sleep-over (aka night vigil), Angola banning Islam and Radovan Krejcir’s James Bond movie-style life.
The government of Angola – a traditionally devout Catholic nation – has denied claims it has banned Islam and shut down the mosques in the country.
Reports of mosque closures and restrictions on wearing veils in public have surfaced despite Angola’s president denying the country’s ban on Islam.
The ignorance, fear and hatred of Islam, under the rubric of Islamophobia, is spreading in dangerous ways.
It is appalling that a senior academic such as Robert van Niekerk could be so confused and ignorant in his remarks.
Anne Norton rejects the "clash of civilisations" view of Islam and the West, but offers little to replace it, says Lawrence Rosen.
Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two radical Islamists have made another arrest.
To find out what’s next, after death Aneesa Fazel went soul searching, with the help of religious experts.
Duelling biopics of Muhammad reflect differing traditions of Sunni and Shia Islam over depiction of the Muslim prophet.
After embracing Islam, Karen Jayes visits the West Bank to explore her new faith.
Mohamed Morsi is expected to set a date for a referendum on the constitution hastily approved by an Islamist-dominated drafting assembly.
The Hadith are indeed secondary to the Qur’an, but the Qur’an says nothing about Aisha’s age at the time the marriage was consummated.
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws may be used to punish Muslims suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple, in a state where laws are used against Islam offences.
The Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam: "Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned."
France has ramped up security at its embassies after a weekly revived a formula seizing attention: Publishing crude cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.