ORLANDO / CAIRO / WASHINGTON: Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early Sunday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Terrified survivors – who moments before were laughing and dancing […]
Source. ET Human rights activist Marvi Sirmed was allegedly assaulted by a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader during the recording of a TV show at a private news channel on Friday. “I have just undergone a very traumatic experience at a News Oneprogramme [Nadia Mirza Show] when Hafiz Hamdullah of JUI-F […]
Source.ET The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to — question the oppression of […]
Source. Arab news.com ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President has cut short his trip to the US and will not attend the funeral of boxer Muhammad Ali, his office said Friday, amid reports of a rift with the ceremony’s organizers. Recep Tayyip Erdogan had especially flown to Louisville in the southern US state […]
By Life&Style Published: June 12, 2016 The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to […]
Fraxinet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The “plateau of Moors” near Fraxinet Fraxinet or Fraxinetum (Arabic: فرخشنيط Farakhshanīt or فرخسة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: “ash tree“, fraxinetum: “ash forest”) was the site of a 10th-century fortress established by Muslims at modern La Garde-Freinet, near Saint-Tropez, in Provence. The modernMassif des […]
Jun 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI One big question emerges from last week’s terrorist attack in Baqaa, where five intelligence staff officers were killed by Jordanian Mahmoud Masharfeh who used to live in the adjacent refugee camp: Who pushed a 22-year-old man to join Daesh, and betray his family […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jun 10,2016 -JORDAN TIMES In this recent photo, volunteers at the Restaurant of Mercy in Amman’s Jabal Luweibdeh prepare the iftar meal to serve underprivileged people during Ramadan (Photo courtesy of Restaurant of Mercy and Caritas Jordan) AMMAN — Delivering a message of peace, forgiveness […]
Source: Youtube On Stephen Colbert’s Late Show , Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made news by using a teleprompter. Up until this point, most of his speeches could get incoherent and rambling, […]
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter In her first speech since she became the first female major party presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton put several traditionally sidelined “women’s issues” front and center. Speaking […]
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said that there is “insufficient evidence” to bring charges against British officials in the case of Abdelhakim Belhaj Kim Sengupta “They knew I was being tortured, I have no doubt of that,” said Abdelhakim Belhaj of MI6 agents who came to interrogate him while […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Debaga Camp, Iraq “Everything is depressed there. Everything.” The chemical engineer escaped on a moonless night, fleeing from ISIS-held territory. As he crossed the front line, ISIS […]
Iranian diplomat Ghadanfar Rokonabadi disappeared after being caught up in the mass panic on last year’s Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca Robert Fisk @indyvoices He was smart, occasionally humorous and detailed in his replies to my questions. Officially, he was an attaché at Iran’s high-walled, black-painted embassy in Beirut, but back in 1996 I […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Suggested Reading: The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorism Editor’s note: […]
Source. NY Times. LONG before I came to the United States, I was fascinated by the American electoral process. I grew up in Pakistan in the 1980s, during the brutally repressive military dictatorship of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, when fear crushed hope. Finding old copies of Time magazine in my […]
theguardian: by Laura Bates — Billboards might be one of the most obvious demonstrations of Hollywood sexism – but they’re far from the only example ‘It’s not surprising that executives see nothing wrong with presenting women as victims or pieces of meat on movie posters, because that’s so often […]
Huff Post: by Alex Teplitzky — ALEX TEPLITZKY In high school, one of my best friends was Muslim. So at a young age, I experienced second-hand a culture that observed customs I would have otherwise been oblivious to. This was most obvious every Ramadan, when my friend, Raza, would join […]