Turkey Bans Teaching of Evolution and the Muslim Times’ Response Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution. The subject has been cut […]
Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times: The very book that this article criticizes: The Bible, the Qu’ran and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge. We believe […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Does the Quran present a theocratic or a secular state? My short answer is ‘a secular state!’ […]
Justice in the Quran from Wikipedia Justice is a central theme in the Qur’an, dictating the traditions of law and how should put into practice. There are two ways in […]
Source: The Guardian By Joumanah El Matrah, who is the CEO of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights and a PhD student at Swinburne University Today’s […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a Shiite man to death for committing blasphemy in posts […]
Source: Huffington Post By Akbar Ganji — Iranian journalist and human rights activist Introduction Extremist Islamic groups such as ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda and the al-Nusra Front in Syria, have transformed […]
Source: Gulf News Astronomical calculations have determined accurately when it starts every year since 1993 UAE: Islamic scholars and astrophysicists in the UAE believe the Muslim world should rely on […]
Mohammad -“The First Muslim” by Lesley Hazelton Lesley Hazleton tells the dramatic life story of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in her biography “The First Muslim.” Watch an interview with […]
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God Source: Gallup Story Highlights 24% believe Bible is literal word of God, the lowest in Gallup’s 40-year trend View of […]
Source: BBC News By Selin Girit BBC News, Istanbul Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionCharles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is set to be expunged from textbooks used by 14 and 15 year […]
Source: Huffington Post “Let’s talk about how the #FinsburyPark terrorist was radicalised.” By Claire Fallon GETTY / TWITTER J.K. Rowling wrote the (children’s fantasy) book about the damage caused by […]
161 SHARES FacebookTwitterGoogle+EmailPrinthttp://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/sikh-woman-becomes-first-turbaned-supreme-court-judge-in-canada/427000.html Also in this section Palbinder Kaur Shergill. Photo courtesy: shergilllaw.com Canberra, June 24 Indian-origin Sikh human rights advocate Palbinder Kaur Shergill has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in New Westminster.Shergill is the first turbaned Sikh to be appointed to the judiciary […]
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 JAN. 21 “I wasn’t a fan of Iraq. I didn’t want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)JAN. 21 “A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the […]
DUBAI: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1443596/search-operations-saudi-security-forces-foil-terror-plot-grand-mosque/ Six foreign pilgrims were hurt on Friday in Saudi Arabia when a suicide bomber targeting Islam’s holiest site of Makkah blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said. The incident happened around the Grand Mosque, where hundreds of thousands of worshippers gathered for early afternoon prayers on the last Friday […]
Source: Metro Young men from the Ahmadiyya community cooked and distributed meals to the survivors in the days following the horrendous blaze.And a group of Ahmadi women who are professional psychiatrists and skilled doctors were in place to support the survivors in light of the trauma, though this was not […]
Source: Dawn All this supports Comey’s assertion that he was dismissed because he was investigating charges that “the Russians interfered in our elections” against Hillary Clinton and in favour of Trump. That web of ‘the Russian connection’ between Trump’s associates during and after the election campaign is for the recently […]
Source:CNN A modest office block squeezed between a doctor’s surgery and a south London housing project is an unlikely setting to find a man described on Time’s most recent 100 List as “an inspiration to thousands.” Yet there is much about Biram Dah Abeid, a prominent anti-slavery activist from the […]
Source: CNN Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have […]
Source:CNN A landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan province buried more than 40 houses, the Chinese state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported Saturday. More than 100 people were unaccounted for after the landslide, which happened at 6 a.m. local time in Xinmo village in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, CCTV said. […]
Source> CNN Saudi security forces on Friday prevented an imminent attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the country’s Interior Ministry said on state-run TV. A suspect planning an attack on the mosque blew himself up in a nearby neighborhood when security forces surrounded a home where the man was […]
Far-right groups have invited the Jewish Defence League to join them in marching in the Toronto Pride parade on Sunday, carrying Islamophobic signs and “severed heads,” according to a public video posted on Facebook. http://torontoist.com/2017/06/anti-muslim-hate-groups-plan-march-toronto-pride-parade/ The video, posted to the personal Facebook page of the leader of the JDL’s Toronto chapter, Meir HaLevi (also known […]
As we all know the bad news reaches the media much easier than the good news. Recently we have read about an Ahmadiyya Mosque in Indonesia being sealed by authorities […]
Source: Pew Research Center Varied views on whether Quran should influence laws in countries BY JACOB POUSHTER As strife in the Middle East continues to make headlines, from the militant […]
Source: BBC News By Lennox Morrison 21 June 2017 As he back-flipped into an ice hole cut into the Baltic sea, Didrik Dege Dimmen drew gasps from onlookers in Oulu, […]
Source: Time Dr. Sandro Galea Jun 22, 2017 IDEAS Galea is Dean of Boston University School of Public Health. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office released its evaluation of the […]
Source: Time By Steven Levingston Jun 20, 2017 Before dawn, on Wednesday, October 26, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sleeping in a prison cell in DeKalb County, Georgia, when […]
Source: The Guardian Australia’s advanced intelligence-gathering P-3 Orion aircraft will be flown over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against Islamic State-affiliated terrorist groups. The defence minister, Marise […]
Source: Reuters A man suspected of driving a van at Muslim worshippers leaving a London mosque has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, British police said on Friday. […]
