Source: Patheos By Saideh Jamshidi To cover or not to cover, that’s the problem, but to whom? When Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé recently advised fellow designers to have […]
Source: The Denver Post By Kirk Mitchell A federal jury trial began Monday in which JetStream Ground Services was accused of not allowing female Muslim employees to wear clothing required […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell / Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to talk about the middle class right now. He wants to talk about the poor. The Vermont Senator on […]
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman Reasons range from “atheism” and “condones public displays of affection” The American Library Association (ALA) released its 2015 list of the 10 “most challenged” books on Monday. The ranking is based on 275 challenges, meaning “a formal, written complaint filed with a library or […]
Source: CNN By Brent Swails and David McKenzie, CNN Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us […]
Source: The Guardian By Katie Allen and Anushka Asthana A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe and will spill over into to weaken […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carolyn Gregoire Senior Writer, The Huffington Post If you just can’t ever seem to get up early for that morning workout, don’t be too hard on yourself. New research suggests that being an early riser is in some people’s DNA — and not in others’. The study, which […]
Source: Rawstory A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists […]
source> The Local Sven Lau (centre) is seen being bundled into a police car after his arrested in December 2015. Photo: DPA A fundamentalist Muslim preacher who started a “sharia police” force in western Germany has now been charged with aiding a terrorist group in Syria, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. […]
Source. The Local National Girls waving German flags in Hanau, Hesse, at the opening of a mosque there. Photo: DPA. A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sister party is pushing for a so-called “Islam law” that would make German the official language of mosques and impose harsh consequences for Muslims […]
LINK An interesting video by Nasim Malik of Sweden
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the […]
Averting mistrust between religious communities is one of the key objectives of our time, but this study plays into the hands of those who seek to spread hatred Maha Akeel Trevor Phillips is fronting a Channel 4 documentary about British Muslims, based on new research about their attitudes Charlie Forgham-Bailey […]
SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36035089?ocid=socialflow_twitter Police in Jordan have shut the headquarters of the main opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB), group officials say. The building in the capital Amman was cleared and sealed on city governor’s orders, an MB leader told Reuters. No reason was given for the closure, the […]
The Darbi family, resettled in New Jersey last July, has found that forced socialization often contributes to intense feelings of alienation. 04/12/2016 Willa Frej Reporter, The Huffington Post Rowaida Abdelaziz World Social Media Editor, The Huffington Post Damon Dahlen/The Huffington Post The Darbis — Nabiha, Amira, Mohamed, Hajar and Shaker, […]
April 13, 2016 TEHRAN – “We are happy that we are getting close to a political solution of the [Syrian] crisis,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of his meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Tehran, […]
Seeing something glittering in the gutter, Mulla Nasrudin ran to pick it up. It was a metal mirror. Looking at it closely, he saw his face reflected in it. ‘No wonder it was thrown away – nothing as ugly as this could possibly appeal to anyone. The fault is in […]
Deana Nassar Published — Friday 1 April 2016 Islam with its universal concept of brotherhood rejects all artificial and man-made marks of distinction. When listening to the radio, reading newspapers, surfing the Net or watching television, we are confronted daily with the same sad news: Violence, crime, wars and disasters. […]
AMAZING QUR’AN: Afghan calligrapher Mohammed Sabeer Hussaini, center, and apprentices work on a page for the world’s largest Qur’an at the Hakim Nasir-e-Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center in Kabul. Dr. Gary Miller Published — Friday 8 April 2016 IF one assumes that the Qur’an is the product of a man’s […]
STRONG ALLIANCE: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Tuesday. (ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 13 April 2016 JEDDAH: Once chilly ties between Turkey and Saudi Arabia have improved rapidly over the past year, with […]