The Scholar Who Irked the Hindu Puritans
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Author Wendy Doniger's interest in exploring Hinduism from multiple perspectives has run afoul of some of the religion's more solemn movements.
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Islamic hardliners in Pakistan burned an effigy of Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth as senators joined mounting calls for London to withdraw Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood.
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BERLIN -- Anger flared across the Islamic world yesterday over comments by Pope Benedict XVI, with Muslims from London to Jakarta assailing the pontiff for implicitly linking Islam with religious violence in a speech earlier this week.
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THE Muslim radical who barracked Home Secretary
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Pakistan's legislature unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI. Lebanon's top Shiite cleric demanded an apology. And in Turkey, the ruling party likened the pontiff to Hitler and Mussolini and accused him of reviving the mentality of the Crusades.
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Theo Van Gogh was an unlikable sort, if you ask me. He derived a lot of pleasure from attacking orthodoxy and mocking any convictions other than his own.
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Radical Muslim clerics and scholars in Pakistan demand the Pope's removal for what they call insults against Islam.
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BARODA, India : A key prosecution witness in the trial of Hindus accused of massacring Muslims during riots in India&#39;s Gujarat state claimed that a rights activist had demanded she give false evidence.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is said to be overwhelmed by the "hostility of the response" to his Sharia law comments.
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A Malaysian woman claims she was subjected to mental torture for insisting her religion is Hinduism, not Islam.
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Foetal medicine pioneer attacks unnecessary and expensive treatments.
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In this hasty and very lumpy volume John Allen Paulos proposes to expose the irrational basis of religious thinking, much the way he exposed rampant mathematical illiteracy in âInnumeracy.â
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His take on Islam, however clumsy, raises tough truths about reason and religion
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam, joined the furor over Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments about Islam by criticizing the pontiff on Sunday.
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There was a time when John was looked at skeptically for his feeble command over the Hindi language.
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The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church expressed regret yesterday over the divisions his elevation has caused among Christians, particularly in developing countries, where, he
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A scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to support their claim is a mistake.