Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday – came into force at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). READ MORE…
The Nation: Let me start with a profound apology for covering, what many might deem an “unimportant” issue this week. With all my sympathies with the innocent children and civilians being killed on the pretext of targeting terrorists, I for one, could not help thinking about a ‘minor’ incident that […]
ET: Even after deliberating for 60 years, the jury’s still out on Muhammad Munir. Pakistan’s second chief justice was a symptom of the times he lived in: brilliant but tragic, visionary but weak. He cared nothing for the rule of law; he cared for nothing but the rule of law. […]
Salon.com: Excerpted from “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.” For most of recorded history, human beings situated the mind — and by extension the soul — not within the brain but within the heart. When […]
This is a quick report: Dear Sister Reshma: Assalamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullah! May Allah bless you for hosting the conference call on a very, very important issue. I am glad you had GAZA in your mind when you sent the invitation. I was in my car and cell phone died […]
194. O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly [22:74] O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even […]
193. So coin not similitudes for Allah. Surely, Allah knows and you know not. [16:75] So coin not similitudes for Allah. Surely, Allah knows and you know not. Note: It is highly presumptuous on the part of man to devise a law regarding God while he is quite ignorant of […]
195. The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider [29:42] The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider, who makes for herself a house; and surely the frailest of all houses is […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science Agnostics, […]
http://www.jsonline.com 2 years after temple shooting, victim’s family relies on Sikh teachings Michael Sears Memorial services are being held through Tuesday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. On Aug. 5, 2012, six worshippers were killed and four other people were injured in a shooting. By Dinesh Ramde, […]
Epigraph: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” US Declaration of Independence Faheem Younus is the Baltimore president of the Ahmadiyya […]
How completely can people with a migrant background integrate into German society? A recent case shows that not every door is open – even to someone who is embracing local customs. Mithat Gedik (pictured) is facing pressure to give up his title Normally, when someone succeeds in shooting down the […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times By the Grace of Allah, I joined Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, from a Sunni family, in 1984, while I was […]
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy […]
Source/Credit: Houston Chronicle By Bill King When the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, I knew exactly two Muslims. Both worked for me, and both were two of the most dedicated, kind […]
August 3, 2014 Outbreak Update The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1440 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 826 deaths, as of July 30, 2014. Of the 1440 clinical […]
Source: Salon.com By Rabbi Michael Lerner: He is an American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, […]
Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The sky was as azure as the sea and the trees never looked so verdant. Summer was just around the corner, […]