Epigraph:
“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.” ? Giordano Bruno, who was burnt on the stake by the Catholic Church in 1600
Badshahi Mosque, the Largest Mosque in Lahore
The lead post collected by Dr. Abdul Alim , the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam
Blasphemous Oppression In The Name of Islam in Pakistan
Blasphemous Oppression In The Name of Islam: Hold Pakistan Accountable For Persecuting Religious Minorities Source: Forbes By Doug Bandow The world is aflame. Religious minorities are among those who suffer…
140 Days: The fast-track school term in an asylum centre (in Switzerland)
By Jo Fahy JUL 15, 2014 – 11:00 Children at a Zurich asylum centre don’t pack their rucksacks and head off to the local school each day like other kids…
Navigation app boon for Haj pilgrims from India
A new state-of-the-art navigation system is being introduced to help Indian pilgrims to find their way to their places of accommodation in Makkah during Haj, Indian Consul General B. S.…
Interfaith Leaders Launch Daylong Fast For Peace In The Middle East
Huff Post: by Dale Hansom Bourke — (RNS) While the violence escalates in Israel and Gaza, a movement is taking hold that unites Jews, Muslims and others in a campaign…
Atheist to deliver invocation in New York town that won prayer ruling
theguardian — Community of Greece won US supreme court ruling which upheld its right to open town meetings with a prayer An atheist is set to deliver the invocation in…
17 things that change forever when you live abroad
MUso de cookie Mas Edimburgo: by Angie Castells — I originally wrote and published this article in Spanish. As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a…
Yellen Tells Congress That Fed Will Continue to Help Economy
WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the economy continues to grow slowly, that the Fed plans to continue to help,…
Brief Lull in Gaza Ends as Israel Resumes Strikes After Rockets Fly
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip continued Tuesday, despite Israel’s initial embrace of an Egyptian cease-fire proposal, which the Islamist Hamas…
Ramadan Iftar at White House 2014
President Obama thanks Muhammad Ahmad Chaudhry for his Foundation’s work Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya USA was honored tonight when one of it’s finest members, Muhammed A. Chaudhry of San Jose Majlis,…
Muslims in China province say they are banned from fasting during Ramadan
Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang are distressed because they are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur…
eDigest: Debate: Did Jesus Rise?
Epigraph: And We made the son of Mary and his mother a Sign, and gave them refuge on an elevated land of green valleys and springs of running water.(Al Quran…
Arles 2014: Photographer Nicolo Degiorgis lifts the veil on Italy’s Islamophobia
The Guardian: By Sean O’Hagan Nicolo Degiorgis contrasts the peace of prayer with the tension of politics, with many of Italy’s Muslims now forced to pray in warehouses, garages, gyms,…
Brics nations to create $100bn development bank
The leaders of the so-called BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – sign a deal to create a new $100bn development bank and emergency reserve fund.Global…
Cease-fire is no solution
The Daily Star Lebanon Since the full headlines usually added that, in stark contrast, Israel had accepted the Egypt-brokered initiative, why is Hamas seemingly acting stubborn in the face of…
CNN: Malala to Boko Haram: Stop misusing Islam
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) – Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an attack by the Taliban, on Monday appealed to Boko Haram militants in Nigeria to lay down their weapons and…
Swiss ready to help Italy with migrant influx
Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga says Switzerland is ready to help Italy in coping with the influx of migrants to its shores. So far this year, more than 63,000 migrants…
Thousands mark Srebrenica massacre anniversary in Bosnia
Daily Times: SREBRENICA: Several thousand people gathered Friday in Srebrenica for the 19th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim males by ethnic Serbs forces, Europe’s worst atrocity since…
Iraq names moderate Sunni parliament speaker in move to break political deadlock
BAGHDAD: Iraqi politicians named a moderate Sunni Islamist as speaker of parliament on Tuesday, a long-delayed first step toward a power-sharing government urgently needed to save the state from disintegration…