This is a compliment in disguise to Ahmadiyya Muslim Community! First a comment from Youtube: How funny, how they just talk about a “Pakistani Community” in the whole News they did not mentioned Ahmadiyya but that is not the only thing. They also have a good “camera-Team”, who knows how […]
LE ROY, New York (Reuters) – State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community’s high school is safe. Although the symptoms are typically […]
ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2012) — Women dining together finely tune their eating behaviour to that of their dining partner. Rather than eating at their own pace, they tend to take bites at the same time as the person sitting across the table. These are the findings of a study carried out […]
(Reuters) – Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers over time, according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people. Green tea contains antioxidant chemicals that may help ward off the cell damage that can lead to disease. Researchers have […]
Click to access fatwa-honour-killings-misogyny-domestic-violence.pdf Islamic Supreme Council of Canada Date: February 4, 2012 For Immediate Release ISCC affiliated Imams Issue Important Fatwa on Honour Killings Misogyny and Domestic Violence Honour Killings, Domestic Violence and Misogyny Are Un- Islamic and Major Crimes (Mississauga) On the blessed day of Eid Milad un […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: February 5, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik pressed opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar to take back his statements regarding the Army, while speaking to the media on Sunday. Malik said that if the people of the country start […]
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html(Reuters) – Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran’s defiance of the West over its nuclear programme. He can hardly bear it. “Prices are going up every day, life is expensive. I buy chicken or […]
FRENCH Interior Minister Claude Gueant has caused political uproar by claiming that not all civilisations are equal. AFP “Contrary to what the left’s relativist ideology […]
Dadang Kahmad West Java has long been known for the tolerant nature of its society and culture. ‘Siger tengah’, or ‘the middle road’, is an underlying principle of Sundanese culture that promotes moderation and the avoidance of extremes of both right and left. ………….. Nevertheless, in recent times, it is […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily UNITED NATIONS – Russia and China on Saturday vetoed an Arab-European draft resolution on Syria backing an Arab League plan which demands a regime change in the Middle East country, the second time since October 2011. The draft resolution, tabled by Morocco and backed by […]
By ROD MCGUIRK | AP ARABNEWS Published: Feb 5, 2012 11:00 Updated: Feb 5, 2012 11:57 CANBERRA, Australia: A mob ransacked the Syrian Embassy in Australia after reports of the […]
Individual tolerance or fear of different groups is not confined to political elites by DR. MUQTEDAR KHAN, ARABNEWS Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the […]
Courtesy Dawn.com: The Sunni Tehrik (ST), a Barelvi Islamist organisation, announced last Sunday that it was converting itself into a political party. To quite a few Pakistanis the ST comes across as being another sectarian outfit triggered by the controversial Islamisation process of the Ziaul Haq dictatorship in the 1980s. It […]
Courtesy: CNBC: The possibility of a sovereign default by Greece cannot be ruled out, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the single currency zone, said in a German magazine on Saturday. In an advance copy of comments to news weekly Der Spiegel, Juncker was quoted as saying […]
LAS VEGAS — A special Saturday night Republican caucus intended to accommodate orthodox Jews who couldn’t vote until after sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to gain admittance they had to sign a legal declaration under penalty of perjury that they could not […]
Credit NY Times as referred by Imam Wasim Saroya. ONE year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the constitution-writing process to serve its narrow interests. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, where the military has also held sway […]
TRIPOLI — Libyan Sufis staged a joyous parade through the heart of Tripoli on Saturday to mark the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, defying radical Salafi Muslims pressuring them to scrap the centuries-old tradition. Chanting hymns to the beat of drums and cymbals, marchers choked the narrow alleys of the walled old […]
Source: This is not the Muslim Times’ original but the source is not available online since publication Celebrating in an event of happiness to express joy is quite human. That […]
Source/Credit: Huffington Post MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Controversy surrounding the Shafia murder trial prompted imams from across Canada and the U.S. to issue a moral ruling Saturday officially condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as “un-Islamic.” Thirty-four imams belonging to the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, including a handful of […]
Source/Credit: bdnews24.com Dhaka, Feb 4 (bdnews24.com) – Local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Saturday said that if any major terrorist attack happens in Bangladesh, it would be rooted in London. Speaking at an emergency meeting of the Awami League executive council at Ganabhaban, the party’s acting secretary general said, […]