This spring, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce urged the state Legislature to accept the federal government’s plan to expand Medicaid for the poor and disabled. The business lobbying group had not suddenly gone rogue. Here is how Daniel P. Mehan, its president, summarized his feelings about President Obama’s health care […]
Lead article written by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A challenge for Dawkins: Where did carbon come from? Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD This popular article in Google-knol was first written by me in December of 2009. Atheists are right in exposing the […]
Huff Post: by Harun Yahya – The essence of Islam is love, compassion and friendship. Muslims are obliged to defend and protect the freedom of thought and faith with the command in the Koran, “You have your religion and I have my religion” (109:6) and “…There is no compulsion where […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for […]
BRUSSELS: Luxury shoe designer Christian Louboutin is asking a Belgian court to kill a far-right campaign using his iconic stilettos for a poster denouncing Islam, the Belga news agency reported Wednesday. […]
A recent poll by Israel’s Channel 10 has revealed that 51 per cent of Israelis have considered migrating to North America. The majority of the respondents attributed their desire to […]
By Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) – At least 82 people died and scores were missing after a boat carrying migrants from Africa sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa […]
ET: KARACHI: Mumtaz Khan wakes up before the crack of dawn every day and offers Fajr prayers. Immediately afterwards, he heads towards St Anthony’s Church in Karachi. He’s been doing this for the past 12 years. He’s a guard at the Catholic parish. “No religion teaches attacking places of worship,” says […]
Analysis Editor’s Note: This is a three-part series on China’s evolving strategic interests in Central Asia and in its own far northwest, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Part 1 looks […]
Analysis Editor’s Note: This is a three-part series on China’s evolving strategic interests in Central Asia and in its own far northwest, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Part 1 looks […]
Epigraph: Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah; and He is the Mighty, the Wise. (Al Quran 57:2) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief […]
Editor The Muslim Times, France. Jama’at Ahmadiyya Val d’oise France organized an inter religious conference on 29th of September 2013. The topic was, “Extremism is the Result of Ignorance and not Religion.” Leaders of all the leading religions took part and favored the theme of the meeting. Conference started with […]
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek has placed the blame for the turmoil in the Middle East on those who provided weapons exacerbating the conflict, during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart […]
A ten-year-old boy who passed a Swiss final high school maths exam for fun is taking a special course in the subject at prestigious Zurich University, the institution said on […]
Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) slipped in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings but it remained the only institution in the top 20 from continental […]
In an unprecedented move, Saudi Arabia has not delivered its annual address at the UN General Assembly in protest at the international organization’s failure to solve major Muslims issues such as Syria, Palestine, and the Rohingya in Myanmar. “This is the first time that Saudi Arabia has canceled its UN […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS BEIRUT: At least 115,206 people have been killed in Syria’s devastating 30-month conflict, most of them fighters from both sides, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the deaths of 115,206 people from the start of Syria’s revolution on […]
Aijaz Zaka Syed Published — Thursday 3 October 2013 ARABNEWS Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth rightly guided Caliph of Islam, is noted for both his courage and timeless wisdom. In fact, there’s a whole collection of his thoughts titled Nahj Al Balagha (Pinnacle of Eloquence). There’s a line from […]
suwanee.patch.com: More than a dozen young Muslim girls from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (GA Chapter) came together in Norcross to paint doors for the city of Norcross sponsored project “Doors of Homes and Hope” on September 21, 2013. Ruthy Lachman Paul, a Norcross resident and the community’s newest friend approached the […]
“As is the way in politics, everyone was convinced that the collective interest and their personal interest were one and the same.” Lesley Hazleton in the last chapter of The […]