Bringing people back from the dead
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: This post has a large bearing on swoon hypothesis. Jesus did not die on the cross and was eventually resuscitated. Source: BBC By William Kremer: […]
As strong as ever (how to be as strong in old age as you were in your youth).
There is no difference between my youth and old age!” declared Nasruddin at the teahouse one day. “I’m just as strong as I was twenty years ago.” “Is that so‽” Hamza replied, always willing to challenge the Mullah on his boasting. “This is a boulder in the city garden that […]
Picture of the Day: ‘Doctored’ pro-Israel ad
Activists in the Irish city of Cork have added their own touches to ads that appeared on bus shelters in their city that call on people to “Visit Israel.” The […]
Do we have free will – a physicist’s perspective?
By Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS, who is a theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is a University of Surrey Distinguished Chair where he has also held a personal chair […]
Suu Kyi’s Muslim moral dilemma
Source: Asia Times: By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins “When you leave a seed from a tree to grow in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building.” These spoken words are a metaphor for […]
Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
Amena Saleem The Electronic Intifada London 23 April 2013 The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up […]
Field of nightmares
Source: Asia Times: By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 – and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as ”the unintended consequences of policies that […]
Do Tsarnaev Brothers Represent New Breed of Terrorist?
Source: Spiegel. After last week’s terror attacks in Boston, Americans themselves seem to have been surprised by their measured response. The more they get to know about the Tsarnaev brothers, though, the more it will become clear that they will now have to get used to a new breed of […]
12 misused English words in German
Source: The Local Most Germans love to show how well they speak English, but they often misuse or even make up their own English vocabulary. We gathered up the worst offenders for this week’s The Local List. Click HERE for these words.
Reflections on Boston: The best response to terror is to refuse to be terrorized
Source: Amnesty International Blog By Zeke Johnson April 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM My cousin lives in Boston and I was worried that he was somehow affected by the attacks. It immediately brought me back to 9/11 and the memory of how powerless I felt watching the Twin Towers […]
Interfaith Seminar on the Moral Empowerment of Women
Venue Wednesday, April 24 7-10 p.m. WSU Vancouver campus Dengerink Administration building, room 110 FREE and open to the public For more information, visit vancouver.wsu.edu Theme of Discussion Moderated by […]
INDONESIA: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME INDONESIA: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur ISSUES: Freedom of religion; minorities; non-state actors; police […]
Is Mullah a Disgrace for the Muslim World, You be the Judge?
You have to know Urdu to read this Ad by a Fundamentalist’s organization as they vilify the most honored and respected philanthropist in Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi, because of their hatred of the […]
The Muslims’ contribution
Times of Malta.com: by Laiq Ahmad Atif. Love is a powerful weapon that unites and brings people, communities, nations, religions and countries closer. In the same way, hatred and malice are the instruments of division and conflict. The editorial of The Times of April 4, ‘Maltese perception of Muslims’ shed […]
Richard Dawkins and the Unbearable Smugness of Tweeting
Huff Post: by Scott Stephens. Dawkins’ views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media’s fixation with him. Dawkins makes for good copy — that’s why journalists love him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling, […]
Leaders dispel ideas of violence in Islam
By Lynsay Williams | The Daily Tar Heel A little more than a week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Muslims in the Triangle came together Tuesday to promote Islam as a peaceful religion. The event, held in the Frank Porter Student Union and attended by about 60, was […]
Would you like to study the Holy Quran online?
Would you like to read the Holy Quran in English? please click here: You can search the entire text for any special point of interest to you. * * * […]
Why Judaism Embraces Science
Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Blogger, Sinai and Synapses I recently had a conversation with a neuroscientist, who also happened to be a self-described atheist. He knew I […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a Monotheist?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson […]
Human rights activists taught online tactics
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan: BBC News education correspondent An international training institute to teach online tactics for human rights campaigners is being set up in the Italian city of […]