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What will religion and spirituality look like in the future? We asked 10 millennials to envisioned the future of their tradition or area of interest. We didn't ask them to predict, but rather to share their hopes for the direction spirituality might take and inspire us to imagine a world filled with wisdom, compassion, and justice and beauty. Please scroll down to read about the future of faith.

What is the future?
Source The Huffington Post

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NEWS
TheBlaze.com

New Times Broward-Palm Beach

Anti-Islam Speaker from this Weekend's Garland Texas Attack Coming to Palm Beach
The country is still reeling from the events this weekend in Garland, Texas, where anti-Islam activists were attacked by gunman while holding a cartoon ...

Christian Post

Islam's 'Reformation' Is Already Here and It's Called 'ISIS'
The idea that Islam needs to reform is again in the spotlight following the recent publication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a ...
Huffington Post

Ex-Pegida Frontwoman Kathrin Oertel Apologizes for Anti-IslamStatements
The speech is touching, in a way. Sometimes, it's even astonishing. But in the end, it's not as revealing as we might have hoped. Kathrin Oertel, the ...
Telegraph.co.uk

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders plans Prophet Mohammed expo after US shootings
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said on Wednesday he wanted to stage a parliamentary exhibition of the cartoons depicting the Prophet ...
Mediaite

Limbaugh: Liberals 'Applaud Militant Islam's Effort to Shut Down Free Expression'
Rush Limbaugh today called liberals hypocrites over the Texas shooting outside a “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest and said “the left respects and ...
ABC Online

This is our Islam: Ararat Muslims reveal what it is like to be a religious minority in a country town
Every Friday in the regional Victorian town of Ararat, 50 members of the IslamicWelfare Association join each other for prayer at a tiny brick building ...

Losing my religion
More common, he says, are those who abandon many of the practices of Islam—regular prayers, the dietary laws and dress codes, for example—but ...
TheBlaze.com

'Listen to What I'm Actually Saying!': Radio Host Lectures CNN Commentator After Hearing His ...
Hill actually laughed when CNN host Chris Cuomo asked if Islam gets a “favoritism” and said the religion is falsely viewed as “more violent” and “more ...

WNCN

Daily Mail


Why I, a Christian mother of a Muslim daughter, fear our nation's Islamophobia
People stare as we tell our daughter Alana goodbye at the John Wayne Airport in California. Alana is aMuslim, and her head scarf turns heads every ...
RealClearPolitics

Jerusalem Post Israel News

Banned in Syria, Muslim Brotherhood members trickle home
ISTANBUL, May 6 (Reuters) - Hundreds of members of the Syrian MuslimBrotherhood have returned from exile, hoping to rebuild a movement which ...
International Business Times

Islamic State Recruiting Christians? Muslim Converts Joining ISIS Militant Fighters
When Elton Simpson, a 30-year-old American Muslim convert from Phoenix, Arizona, joined in an attack on a Garland, Texas, drawing contest for ...
Washington Post (blog)

US Holocaust museum says this Muslim minority could face genocide
The official American institution memorializing the Holocaust sounded the alarm this week of the threat of a new genocide facing the beleaguered ...
National Post

Germany arrests 4 over plot to attack Muslim sites
BERLIN – German authorities said Wednesday that they had broken up what they said was a far-right terrorist group and had arrested four of its ...
NPR

Business Incubator Taps Into Muslim-Americans' Entrepreneurial Spirit
The self-proclaimed Islamic State has a reputation of being very effective at recruiting young Muslims. It has a lot to do with the group's online skills.
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

Why Britain's Muslims should engage with this election
Statistically, the Muslim community in the United Kingdom could decide a quarter of seats in this General Election. Currently, there are approximately ...

Daily Beast

In Germany, the Rise of Anti-Islam Terrorism
Support for anti-immigrant, anti-Islam political parties like the PEGIDA movement, which drew an estimated 25,000 supporters to a rally in January has ...
WSET

Special Report: Islam in the Bible Belt
A stark contrast to the mosque in New Jersey where their kids attended Islamic school-- or their native Bangladesh -- home to some of the largest ...
Palm Beach Post

The Guardian

Tajikistan debates ban on Arabic names as part of crackdown on Islam
Tajikistan is debating legislation to ban Arabic names as part of an ongoing campaign against Islam that has seen men being forced to shave their ...
Sun Sentinel

Republicans defy critics of speaker on Islamic terrorism; venue backs out, forcing relocation
Council on American-Islamic Relations denounces Palm Beach County ... Showing just how fraught the subject of Islam and terrorism is, CAIR itself ...
Arab News

Beware of radical Islamic propaganda
While our people concentrate on a variety of diversions, those committed to establishing a world-wide Islamic caliphate, which would replace the U.S. ...
Arab News

Abu Lahab, enemy of Islam, meets his fate
Abu Lahab is the only person from the enemies of Islam who has been cursed by name in the Holy Qur'an. Although he was an uncle of the Holy ...
Breitbart News

Anjem Choudary: Bill O'Reilly Defiles Islam
(THE UNITED WEST) According to UK Imam Anjem Choudary, Bill O'Reilly has defiled Islam by displaying the image of the Islamic Prophet Isa ...
Columbia Heart Beat

EYE ON ISLAM: Stephens College professor's online timeline an eye-opening look at Muslim world
Bombings, terrorism, 9/11, and Mideast conflict have wrongly created a destructive impression of Islam's storied and fascinating history, Stephens ...

USA TODAY

Islamic State threat targets Detroit Muslim leaders
DETROIT — Detroit-area Shiite Muslim leaders were encouraged to have extra security during Friday's prayer services after an anonymous, unverified ...

Daily Beast

Muslim-Bashing Can Be Very Lucrative
People keep asking me why does Pam Geller spew so much anti-Muslim crap? Is it part of her work as a pro-Israel activist? Did she once get food ...

Islamic State threat targets Detroit Muslim leaders
Shia Muslim leaders were encouraged to have extra security during Friday prayer services after an anonymous, unverified online threat was ...
WCNC

Autopsies: 2 of 3 Muslim students shot with gun held to head
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Autopsies indicate that a man charged with killing three Muslim college students held his gun to the heads of two victims when ...

Muslim Kosovars rediscover their long-forgotten Roman Catholic roots
But today, Jakaj and others are on a mission that they say reflects a renaissance of Catholicism in the country. Muslim Kosovars are supporting the ...
Telegraph.co.uk

Muslims ordered not to vote to by extremists
Voting in the General Election was embroiled in controversy with some Muslims told not to vote while others were allegedly ordered by spiritual ...
Breitbart News

Concerns Of Muslim Immigration Surge Into Western World Come Into Focus
The Muslim immigration warnings offered by Dutch politician Geert Wilders—who was in the facility in Garland, Texas, that was attacked by terrorists ...
NPR (blog)

'Haqqathon' Takes Anti-ISIS Fight To Cyberspace
Last week in the United Arab Emirates, group of Muslim scholars held what they called a "haqqathon" – a hackathon meant to create new ways for ...
International Business Times UK



BLOGS


Islam's 'Reformation' Is Already Here
The idea that Islam needs to reform is again in the spotlight following the recent publication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a ...

Predictably Shameless Right-Wing Media Tries Blaming Muslim Congressman For Texas Shooting
In their effort to prove a vast Muslim-American conspiracy, it was only a matter of time before they turned their eyes towards the few Muslims in America ...

WEB

Opponents to Walpole Muslim cemetery insist religion not at issue
Opposition is growing in Walpole to a proposal for a 3,400-plot Muslim cemetery that would be built on 3 acres off Route 1 and use “green” techniques ...

It's okay to victim blame if the perpetrator is a Muslim extremist
Ever since two gunmen were shot dead in Garland, Texas, on May 3, the media's focus has been not on the radical men who intended to kill some 200 ...

Religion and the Nigerian Election
Religion has crept into the public sphere and dominated political discourse since the 1970s. Intense competition between Muslims and Christians in ...

There's a war on free speech --- and radical Islam is winning
Warnings about the threat that radical Islam poses to America are often greeted with sneering and mocking by cultural elites — as if anybody who ...

Activist blogger says 9/11 inspired criticism of Islam
Activist blogger says 9/11 inspired criticism of Islam. By MEGHAN BARR May 7, 2015 5:25 pm. Pamela Geller is interviewed at The Associated Press, ...

Huffington Post on Twitter: "The future of Islam http://t.co/1cm9iKMtJT http://t.co/WsrA5EAvtA"
@HuffingtonPost Donald Trump, Bill Oreilly and Rev Billy Graham son has come out against that woman in Texas Videos ...

May 1 at 11:00pm
Feeling loved. Don't care what the article says. We MUSLIMs don't believe everyone has the same views unlike when a MUSLIM says something and ...

Islam Unit 4 GCSE Revision Guide
This is a detailed Revision Pack to support revision prep for GCSE Islam Edexcel. Last updated 07 May 2015, created 07 May 2015. Add to favourites.

Islam 'The Mosque' and 'Role of Imam'
An A3 sheet that allowed me to deliver the lessons for Features of a Mosque and Roles of Mosque and Imam through groups work whilst ensuring the ...