Jordan makes $2.87b appeal under response plan to refugee crisis
by Khetam Malkawi | Dec 04, 2014 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday stressed its commitment to supporting Syrian refugees on its territory, but warned that the same level […]
Last stop: Fearful Arab drivers quit Jerusalem buses
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Fadi has endured verbal abuse and even the threat of suicide bombers during 15 years at the wheel of Jerusalem’s public buses, but like dozens of Palestinian […]
Al Azhar urges Mideast Christians not to flee jihadists
CAIRO — Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious centre of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile. The call, made at a Cairo conference organised by Al Azhar, came just days after Pope Francis […]
ISIS leader threatens Lebanon over arrest of wife
Summary An ISIS commander threatened to kidnap Lebanese women and children and end negotiations over the captive servicemen unless his wife and children, detained by authorities last week, are released soon. Shishani denied what he said were claims that the woman was ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife, saying that […]
Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned by Egypt to ‘teach Qatar a lesson’ for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood
ROBERT FISK Thursday 04 December 2014 Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man. And so he should be. He says that he and his two colleagues from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera channel – Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed – were imprisoned by the Egyptians to “teach Qatar a lesson” because the emirate […]
Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge: How ignoring some basic facts exacerbates our country’s race problem. I remember having to explain to my […]
Sit-ins, die-ins, blockades in American cities not just about Eric Garner
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/12/05/pkg-soares-nyc-chokehold-global-reaction.cnn By Ben Brumfield (CNN) — If the color were removed from the boundless images of protests on America’s streets over the last two nights, they might be mistaken for […]
PM Harper participates in the 10th anniversary of Humanity First Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today attended a fundraising dinner marking 10 years of charitable work and disaster relief by Humanity First Canada, a mission of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. All […]
230,000 Ontarians considered suicide in past year, report estimates
Source: Global News More Ontarians are reporting mental anguish and almost a quarter million have considered killing themselves in the past 12 months, according to a report from the Centre […]
California: Sikh woman makes history as Yuba City council member
Preet Didbal (centre) sworn in Tuesday among family UPDATED 9:13 AM PST Dec 03, 2014 http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/sikh-woman-makes-history-as-yuba-city-councilmember/30030992 YUBA CITY, Calif. (KCRA) —It’s history in the making as a woman of Sikh descent is the first one elected to City Council, likely not just in California, but in the nation. Preet Didbal, […]
Two Saudi Women Activists Arrested for Driving at Border
Two female women’s rights activists have been detained by Saudi Arabia at the border from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a protest against the kingdom’s ban on women driving. Saudi celebrity and human rights activist Loujain al-Hathoul, aged 25, attempted to drive a car across the border from the […]
Canada: Brother of Federal Minister charged in drug sting
Brother of federal cabinet minister Tim Uppal charged in drug sting CBC News Posted: Dec 03, 2014 2:03 PM MTLast Updated: Dec 03, 2014 2:03 PM MT Tim Uppal, Conservative MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park, is Canada’s minister of state for multiculturalism. Raymanpreet Singh Uppal, the younger brother of Tim Uppal, […]
India: Lajna Imaillah Shimoga Karnataka distributes Blankets to Orphans
By Mrs Hajira Mansoora, Sadar Lajna Immillah, Shimoga, Karnataka, India A report on social services (Khidmat-e-Khalq) by Lajna Immailliah (Women’s Wing) of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Shimoga, Karnataka, India. Shimoga 14th Nov: […]
Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge, How ignoring some basic facts exacerbates our country’s race problem.
by Qasim Rashid I remember having to explain to my then three-year-old why the Taliban shot Malala. It was a difficult conversation because he loves Malala, but it was easy to explain why killing is wrong and that the Taliban is evil. The world condemned the Taliban and, thankfully, Malala […]
Reason or Orthodoxy: Which One Should Rule?
Epigraph: Say, ‘Bring forward your proof if you are truthful.’ (Al Quran 27:65) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times My Exhibit A in favor of […]
Could Islamic finance save capitalism?
Guardian: Is there a place for ethics and morality in the global economy? Should we continue to rely on governments to tweak at the margins of financial regulation, or is […]
Islam and Successful Marriage
Strengthening families is a subject which is one of the core issues of the contemporary world. Hundreds and thousands families are breaking every year around the world. Lack of stable […]
Top 16 Quotes From Successful Women Who Beat The Youth Trap
Forbes: by Denise Restuari — What are successful women in their thirties thinking, doing and saying? For my Forbes eBook,Their Roaring Thirties, I interviewed over 100 women who are navigating through a decade that is sandwiched between millennial superstars and women at the top –women who are too old to […]
Strathfield synagogue could become a mosque as buyers bid for historic building
abc.net: by Ursula Malone — One of the last remaining synagogues in western Sydney could be given a new lease of life as a mosque. PHOTO: Rabbi Samuel Tov-Lev is uncomfortable with the prospect of the synagogue becoming a place of worship for another religion. (ABC) The Strathfield War Memorial […]
Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
By Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent Stephen Hawking: “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories […]