The Muslim Post

The difference between placebos and prayer

PETALUMA, CA, May 1, 2017 – “The difference between placebos and prayer,” said Dr. Harold Koenig during a workshop he was giving at Duke University’s Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health, “is that with placebos we know there’s no active ingredient, whereas with prayer we know there is.” A compelling assertion, to be sure, especially […]

School bans Muslim pupils from ‘provocative’ praying

School bans Muslim pupils from ‘provocative’ praying

A high school in a western German city has banned Muslim pupils from publicly praying, saying that all the religious acts associated with it are “provocative” to other students, sparking a heated debate about freedom of religion in the country. The school in Wuppertal sent a note to staff in February asking them to “identify” […]

Mindfulness Meditation Successfully Treats Anxiety: Study

Mindfulness Meditation Successfully Treats Anxiety: Study

A clinical trial backed by the National Institutes of Health has provided new evidence that mindfulness meditation effectively fights anxiety. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry worked with 89 patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders to measure how their stress-hormone and inflammatory responses were affected by mindfulness meditation classes.

Wisconsin manufacturer fires seven Muslim employees over unscheduled prayer breaks

MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin manufacturer says it has fired seven Muslim employees for continuing to take unscheduled prayer breaks. More than 50 Somali immigrant Muslims at Ariens Co. recently protested the company’s enforcement of a policy of two 10-minute breaks per work shift — without accommodations for unscheduled prayer time. The 53 employees wanted the […]

Prayer is key to long life, 106-year-old N.J. resident says

READINGTON TWP. — Celebrating her 106th birthday Tuesday, Maria Piedade Do Alvaro reminisced with her daughter and granddaughters about when she immigrated to the United States in 1966 and 1967. Do Alvaro came over with her husband Agostinha when she was 56, moved to the Ironbound district of Newark, and was joined by her children […]

Muslims Fired by Wisconsin Firm for Unscheduled Prayer Breaks

TEHRAN (FNA)- Seven Muslims have been fired by a Wisconsin company amid a prayer-break dispute. Muslim employees took unscheduled prayer breaks after the company ceased accommodating work stoppages that allowed workers to pray in accordance with their faith. Ariens Co., a lawn mower and snowblower manufacturer in Brillion, Wisconsin, fired its Somali Muslim employees over […]