(RNS) — Mustafa Akyol knows the problems with apostasy laws better than most. In 2017 the Turkish thinker was supposed to be a guest lecturer in Malaysia. Yet, when he finished his trip, he was ...

After its return to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are again imposing their religious ideology, with restrictions on women’s rights and other repressive measures. They are presenting to the world ...

Mustafa Akyol’s recent New York Times column, What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims, bravely broaches one of the most important issues today: reform in Islam. The separation of church and state, the ...

What will it take to get Islam to reform itself? Will last Friday’s cold-blooded slaughter of 305 Egyptian Muslims at prayer in their mosque finally be the tipping point? While aggressive government ...

Glenn Beck said Reform rabbis are “almost like radicalized Islam.” The Fox News host made the comments on his radio program Tuesday in the context of a wider discussion about a recent open letter, ...

I was deeply disappointed to read Yvonne Haddad’s views (“Religion and Culture: Views of 10 Scholars,” The Chronicle Review, October 22), and I find it difficult to believe that she works at a center ...

When I watch what’s unfolding in Israel, with Hamas to the southwest and Hezbollah to the north, I think of two books I’ve read. One on Islam I picked up in a Southeast Asia airport — Malaysia and the ...

TORONTO — Irshad Manji has plenty of enemies among her fellow Muslims. Her critique of Islam is frank and fierce. She defends the invasion of Iraq. She sympathizes with Israel. She’s a lesbian and ...

After the Obama administration decided to drop its defense of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism praised the move. In reaction, Fox News talk show ...

(The Conversation) — After its return to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are again imposing their religious ideology, with restrictions on women’s rights and other repressive measures. They are ...

We are engaged in a struggle to defeat terrorism. I have no advice on how to win that struggle, but I have some thoughts as to why it exists. It is not, I think, because Islam is at war with the West ...