Huff Post: by Michael Zimmerman — It’s probably fair to say that much, and many might say too much, has been written about the “debate” between Ken Ham and Bill Nye on the nature of science and the relationship between religion and science. Nonetheless, I feel it might be useful […]
US court rejects lawsuit challenging NYPD’s spying on Muslims Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:31AM GMT A federal court in the United States has rejected a civil rights lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s spying activities against Muslims. On Thursday, the court in Newark in the state of New Jersey […]
FP: Some 500 “Saudis and other Arabs,” most of whom are probably Muslim, have signed up with a private company, Mars One, which promises to bring them to the Red Planet to establish a permanent human colony. But a new fatwa may force those would-be astronauts to put those plans on hold. […]
Review of Religions: A Keynote Address by Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Inauguration of “Khilafat Hall” in Sydney On 18th October 2013, the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Jesus is coming– and he’ll be carrying a really big gun when he does. Huff Post: That’s what former U.S. Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin thinks,according to a speech he gave on behalf of the conservative Family Research Council at the WallBuilders’ Pro-Family Legislators Conference, in which he describes his vision of […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — China has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to call off a meeting at the White House with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama that’s scheduled to take […]
STORY SUMMARY Moscow accused Washington Thursday of prolonging the Syrian conflict by supporting the opposition, on the eve of a UN Security Council vote that threatens to further deepen big […]
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Summary of book al’America by J. Curiel Islamic Roots of America, Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada Sometime ago I had the pleasure of reading a book al’America by Jonathan Curiel. The book is fascinating, jam-packed with astonishing facts about Islam in America. Columbus knew that without Arab knowledge, his discovery of […]
By Dr Abdul Rashid Badr, MBBS, MS, FMAS, Surgeon Noor Hospital Qadian. I am nearing to complete 60th year of my life. It was my fourth or fifth year of […]
The Muslim Time’s Chief Editor’s comment: By the Grace of Allah, I joined Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, from a Sunni family, in 1984, while I was in my Medical School. Since then […]
by Bayram Balci Published on Monday, January 27, 2014 ARTICLES Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 15 The greater “Turkic world”—that is, Turkey and the majority of the Caucasus and Central Asia—has […]
Epigraph: “My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the […]
Huff Post: While ninety percent of Americans would vote for a black, a woman, Catholic, Hispanic, or Jewish presidential candidate, only 54 percent would vote for an atheist and only 58 percent would vote for a Muslim according to a Gallup poll below. Gallup first asked this question in 1937 referring to […]
Huff Post — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently released a large-scale study on the “Religious Understandings of Science,” and it’s findings might surprise you. The survey of 10,241 respondents investigated views on religion, science and faith and took particular interest in the responses from evangelicals and people working […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown “Animal welfare takes precedence over religion” declared Denmark’s ministry of agriculture when a ban on ritual slaughter came into effect this week. There were immediate accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia from Jews and Muslims, even though both communities are still free to import meat killed […]
Aljazeera: Religious leaders in Denmark say law changes to kosher and halal slaughter practices will not greatly affect their ways of life, despite international criticism about the change. Denmark’s minister […]
ET: Militarisation of the subcontinent continues unabated — and this trend has been further fed by India’s latest increase in its defence spending. The Indian government has announced a 10 per cent increase in its military budget — pushing spending in this sector to a whopping 36 billion dollars. This increase […]
Israelis do not remember that in the year of the expulsion, 1492, the country that opened its gates to the exiles from Spain – without constructing prison facilities for them – was Ottoman Turkey. By Dmitry Shumsky | Feb. 20, 2014 | 3:39 AM Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Wednesday, 19 February 2014 12:59 Muslims ruled much of Spain for centuries starting from 711 to 1492. MADRID – Struggling to keep the memory of Al-Andalus alive, a Muslim advocacy group has urged the Spanish authorities to grant Muslims, expelled from Spain in 1609, the […]