Your Local Guardian: Photograph of the Author by Louisa Clarence-Smith, Reporter – Wimbledon An international Muslim leader condemned terrorist group ISIS at a peace symposium attended by more than 1,000 people on Saturday. His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community spoke of the increased […]
19 MARCH 2015 | BY URSULA KING Ursula King on a profile of the many faces of Islam in one country Muslims feature daily in news headlines in the West. […]
By Satria Sambijantoro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government will waive visa requirements for 30 countries as early as next month to boost the country’s foreign exchange income from the […]
RIYADH: SAUD AL-AMMARI Published — Thursday 19 March 2015 Last update 19 March 2015 2:26 am After receiving a kind invitation from Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom, I attended the Global Law Summit in London as part of the Saudi delegation. The summit attracted […]
A victim is being evacuated by rescue workers outside the Bardo museum in Tunis, on Wednesday in Tunis, Tunisia. (AP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Wednesday 18 March 2015 CAIRO: Gunmen in Tunisia took a group of tourists hostage at a museum and at least 22 people were reportedly killed […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star When historians look back on the Middle East decades from now, they might find that trends in the region after 2015 were determined by the outcome of four seminal issues and battles that are in play this month. The most important one is the […]
Summary Michael Young| The Daily Star Lebanon Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in Israel’s general elections means that any hope of serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians – never particularly high in the first place – is now virtually nil. But more uncertain, and interesting, is what it will do to relations […]
Source: The New York Times Author: Jodi Rudoren Israelis emboldened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a clear mandate in balloting on Tuesday, paving the way for him to lead a right-leaning and religious coalition that could be far easier to control, since his own party holds many more seats now. Read More
Female members of Shoura Council during a meeting. RIYADH: MOHAMMED AL-JATHLANI Published — Wednesday 18 March 2015 Last update 18 March 2015 1:56 am | | A A Centuries before the International Declaration of Human Rights was formulated, our Prophet (peace be upon him), spoke about the true and […]
Posted 2 hours ago by Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) in news Babies who are breastfed are more intelligent, stay longer in full-time education and ultimately earn more money as well, a three-decade study has concluded. Brazilian researchers interviewed 3,500 adults out of 6,000 babies who entered the study in 1982. They found that people […]
Epigraph And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:108) The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles on Interfaith Tolerance […]
ET: Social networking giant Facebook censored 54 posts in Pakistan on the request of the government between July and December 2014, as it said it saw a decline in the number of requests made from Pakistan. In its latest bi-annual transparency report on requests made by governments to the social […]
ET: Social networking giant Facebook censored 54 posts in Pakistan on the request of the government between July and December 2014, as it said it saw a decline in the number of requests made from Pakistan. In its latest bi-annual transparency report on requests made by governments to the social […]
Source: The Daily News BY MUSTAFA AKYOL; akyol@mustafaakyol.org The term “Islamophobia” entered the global political language in the past decade. The New American Oxford Dictionary defines it as “a hatred or […]
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]