Wednesday 13 August 2014

News Around the Muslim World on Tuesday 12 August 2014

Appealing for tolerance and unity, Mr. Jinnah said that the biggest hindrances to India’s advance had been religious and racial divisions. But for these India would have been free long ago.
People living in Pakistan, he said, would have complete religious freedom but they must remember “first, second, and last, that they are citizens of this State with equal rights and equal obligations.”

Source : Series: From the Guardian archive


                                                                      

Cohen has described many instances during the middle ages and beyond where relations between the two religious groups had remained cooperative and peaceful. He further reveals that the roots of anti-Semitism are much more recent: “imported into the Middle East in the nineteenth century on the heels of European colonialism.”


Source : Religion Dispatches


                                                      

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Christian Post
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