Pakistan’s harsh laws against religious profanity are being abused to settle personal and political scores, leading to an alarming rise in convictions and even murder
Readers write in about Steve Biko, statues, Zuma, headlines and Islamic scholars.
Science and religion come into contact.
Moncef Marzouki has been sworn in as the Tunisia’s first elected president since the north African nation’s revolution sparked the Arab Spring.
The US pastor at the centre of an international firestorm for threatening to burn the Qur’an reaffirmed that he would not go ahead with the event.
United States President Barack Obama joined leaders of the world’s biggest Muslim nations in a chorus of outrage at a plan to burn the Qur’an.
A church leader in Florida who espouses an anti-Islam philosophy said he was still praying about whether to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11.
An Afghan court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of a young reporter accused of insulting Islam, but sentenced him to 20 years in jail.
LG Electronics has marketed a new large-screen plasma display television that allows users both to read and listen to the Qur’an.
A new translation of the Qur’an is a magnificent achievement, writes Ziaudauddin Sardar.
