Do Muslims Prefer Camels Over Modern Cars?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If you are a Muslim and are reading this article, you were probably surprised or even appalled and […]
Fed welcomes energy drop, shrugs off disinflation threat
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is welcoming the sharp drop in global energy prices, with two influential policymakers on Monday cheering the boost it should provide American pocketbooks and shrugging off any pressure on already low inflation. Soft oil prices in particular, which hit a five-year low on Friday, will […]
Focus on the Holy Quran
Epigraph: If We had sent down this Qur’an on a mountain, thou wouldst certainly have seen it humbled and rent asunder for fear of Allah. And these are similitudes that […]
US attorney general calls for end to racial profiling
Source: BBC US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced plans to “help end racial profiling once and for all”. He was speaking in Atlanta in the wake of mass protests […]
Human rights commitments: ‘Govts must probe violence against religious minorities’
ET: LAHORE: Pakistan’s human rights record might be contentious on several levels but in March last year, at its Universal Periodic Review with the Human Rights Council, Pakistan was lauded for its “commitment” to defending human rights. It had accepted 126 proposals put forward by member countries, rejected seven and claimed […]
Birmingham’s first Islamic school ‘spent £1m of public money on school in Pakistan’
Indepedent: Council officials in Birmingham are investigating claims that a trust running the city’s first-ever Islamic school spent £1 million of public money funding a new school in Pakistan. The […]
Poverty is at its most deadly when it becomes normal
theguardian: by Ally Fogg — Shocking evidence of the effects of austerity in Britain is being met with a silence that suggests a dangerous indifference While homelessness across all ages is rising, youth homelessness in particular is soaring When is poverty at its most dangerous? It is not, as you […]
Pope Francis Says Equating Islam With Violence Is Wrong
Huff Post: by Philip Pullella —- (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global […]
India: Rohtak sisters beat up harassars on moving bus
The two sisters in Rohtak on Monday. ( Source: Express photo by : Gajendra Yadav) Written by Sumegha Gulati | Kharkhauda | Posted: December 2, 2014 4:13 am | Updated: December 2, 2014 10:57 am As a TV reporter — the seventh since morning — approached the Rohtak sisters for […]