Blasts raise concerns for Election Security
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit:Dawn.com Separate attacks in Quetta, Karachi, Peshawar and DI Khan since Tuesday night have killed 11 people, and injured over 70. […]
Congratulations Majlis Ansarullah Germany!
By Zubair Khan. Photos: Mr Aslam Khan In the evening on 24.04.2013, in Bashir Mosque Bensheim Germany a successful program was organized under the arrangements of Majlis Ansarullah Germany. Approximately 25 learned Germans participated. In the beginning Shaikh Iftikhar very amicably introduced the Jamaat. Thereafter Mr Luqman Majoka, who is […]
Weak durable goods orders point to sluggish economy
(Reuters) – Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods recorded their biggest drop in seven months in March and a gauge of planned business spending rose only modestly, signs of a slowdown in economic activity. Durable goods orders slumped 5.7 percent as demand fell almost across the board, the Commerce Department said […]
Syria clashes destroy ancient Aleppo Minaret
BBC News UK: The minaret of one of Syria’s most famous mosques has been destroyed during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. The state news agency Sana accused rebels […]
Hamid sworn in as president
Source: Daily Star Abdul Hamid takes oath as the 20th president of the country at Bangabhaban Darbar Hall in the capital on Wednesday. Photo: BSS Abdul Hamid has taken oath as the 20th president of the country Wednesday. Acting Speaker Shawkat Ali administered the oath to Hamid at Bangabhaban […]
Hasina thanks Opposition
Source: BDNews 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked the opposition parties for withdrawing its general strike to facilitate rescue work at Savar. At least 80 people were killed and over 800 others injured when the nine-storied Rana Plaza caved in on Wednesday. The number of casualties is feared to […]
At least 87 dead in Bangladesh building collapse
Source: USA Today & NY Times BY Julhas Alam, Associated Press SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete. Rescuers tried to cut through the […]
Abu Qatada case: UK agrees assistance treaty with Jordan
BBC News UK: The UK government has signed a mutual assistance treaty with Jordan to ensure that radical cleric Abu Qatada can be deported, The home secretary Theresa May has […]
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I’m Muslim, and I hate terrorism
Courtesy: CNN Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the co-director of the upcoming documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” and co-host of a new CNN podcast “The Big Three” that looks at the top three […]
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 […]