Epigraph:
There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257)
Separation of Mosque-Church and State an Absolute Essential for our Global Village
Lead post collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times
Supreme Court Justices Reject Appeal Over Graduations In Church
Source: The Huffington Post The WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place a court decision that said public high school graduations in a church adorned with religious…
Solomonic wisdom needed to establish Separation of Mosque-Church-Synagogue and State
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Judgment of Solomon refers to a story from the Hebrew Bible in which King Solomon…
The sectarian myth of Iraq
by Sami Ramadani, THE GUARDIAN Tony Blair has been widely derided for his attempted justification of the 2003 Iraq invasion, and his claim last weekend that he’s blameless over the…
Iraq crisis needs a proper response from this region
One of the facts exposed by recent events in Iraq is that the Gulf states have no strategy for addressing the troubles pulsing dangerously through that country beyond “wait and…
UK to reopen embassy in Tehran
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday that “circumstances are right” to reopen Britain’s embassy in Iran, which was closed in 2011 after hard-liners overran the building and ransacked…
What happened to the world? Has it gone crazy?
MOHAMMED FAHAD AL-HARTHI Published — Wednesday 18 June 2014ARABNEWS.COM At the annual Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona this week, I was one of many delegates taken by surprise…
Arabs search for legitimate statehood
June 18, 2014 12:18 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The open warfare and shaken statehood that characterize Syria, Iraq and Libya are the painful commemoration…
India, Pakistan gradually increasing, modernising their nuclear arsenals
ET: Pakistan and India have steadily increased their nuclear arsenal from 70-90 and 60-80 warheads in 2010, to 100-120 and 90-110 respectively by 2014, a new report by the Stockholm International Peace…
Militants ‘Executed Non-Muslims’ at Kenyan World Cup Watch Party
A brutal attack on a crowd of World Cup watchers at a hotel in northern Kenya has reportedly left at least 48 people dead. One of the survivors told The…
Scrap plan to extend statin use, say doctors
Source: BBC News The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published draft guidance in February calling for their use to be extended to save more lives. It could…
Miracle Crop: India’s Quest to End World Hunger
Miracle Crop: India’s Quest to End World Hunger Source: Spiegel Online International By Philip Bethge But for the global champions of the new, gentle Green Revolution and its campaign against…
More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
Maliki’s alienation of Sunni actors is at the heart of ISIS’s success in Iraq. The story of the ongoing events in Iraq is one of lost opportunities. By December 2013,…
Pakistan: Anti-Ahmadi hate campaign in full swing by Tahirul Qadri group in Faislabad
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Thousands of billboards, banners, posters and signage on taxis and rickshaws have sprung up during the last few weeks in every part of the city advertising a ’6-day,…
The Promises And Problems With A New Council of Nicaea
Source: The Huffington Post By Hal Taussig: Author, ‘A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts’ In 325 AD Christianity took one of its…
The Intrigue Lying Behind Iraq’s Jihadist Uprising
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 03:05 ? ? Text Size ? Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a…
eDigest: Book Review: Demystifying Islam: Tackling the Tough Questions
Epigraph: And He has already revealed to you in the Book that, when you hear the Signs of Allah being denied and mocked at, sit not with them until they…
Middle East: Death by idendity
The Middle East is experiencing yet another one of its periodic convulsions. The region lives from crisis to crisis, but the events in Iraq last week may speak to something…
Qur’an lesson for today: Lend to Allah a goodly loan
151. Lend to Allah a goodly loan [73:21] Surely, thy Lord knows that thou standest up praying for nearly two thirds of the night, and sometimes half or a third…
FIFA World Cup – Rules for the Wife
My dear? ??Better Half The Fifa World Cup is here and here are the rules: 1. The remote control belongs to me for the entire month. 2. Tell…
Taliban will burn your palaces in Islamabad, Lahore: spokesman
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The Taliban on Monday warned foreign firms to leave Pakistan and vowed retaliatory strikes against the government after the Pakistan Army launched a long-awaited offensive in a…
Muslim Players in Brazil World Cup
Source: The Muslim Village The Brazil 2014 World Cup kicked off earlier this week with an abundance of Muslim players dotting the football landscape. Being an integral part of football,…
The U.S. administration recognizes the trap that has been laid.
Source: Stratfor. Revisiting a Mysterious Meeting in Sochi Just days before the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-led offensive in Iraq, a quiet meeting took place at Russian President…
A new initiative by the Secretary-General to improve UN action to safeguard human rights around the world
UN.org: The need for early action, and the crucial role of responding early to human rights violations, is at the heart of the “Rights up Front” initiative. “Rights up Front”…
Identifying As Muslim On Resumes May Lead To Fewer Job Opportunities, Survey Says
Huff Post: (RNS) Recent college grads, take note: Mentioning a campus religion group on your resume — particularly a Muslim club — may lead to significantly fewer job opportunities. Two…
Another Factor Said to Sway Judges to Rule for Women’s Rights: A Daughter
NY Times: WASHINGTON — It was, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg later said, “such a delightful surprise.” In a 2003 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist suddenly turned into a feminist,…
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