Turkey increases pressure on U.S. for Gulen’s extradition
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor ISTANBUL — Turkish leaders on Tuesday stepped up their calls for the United States to punish Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric living in […]
Man charged with threatening to burn Boston mosque
Source: The Boston Globe By Andy Rosen GLOBE STAFF Federal authorities have charged a man with threatening to burn Boston’s largest mosque and making menacing statements to Muslims in the area. Patrick Keogan, 44, of Wilmington, allegedly made threats on the Facebook page of Roxbury’s Islamic Society of Boston […]
Cracks showing in Democrats’ stance on Israel as many back push for Palestinians
Source: The Forward The Democratic Party has spent the first couple days of its convention projecting unity on issues from fighting racism to fair trade. But fissures are showing here on one issue that Democrats have long been united on: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their party, which has long commanded the […]
What Bill Clinton Would Do in a Hillary Clinton White House
Source: Time Philip Elliott / Philadelphia Drawing on his 40-year marriage with Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton told the nation stories Tuesday night about a remarkable partnership that could make history again—for both of them. “I married my best friend,” Clinton said of his wife, a trailblazing former First […]
French Church Attacker Used Fake Identities to Evade Police, Authorities Say
Source: Time (PARIS) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church evaded police twice using relatives’ ID cards in attempts to reach Syria. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that 19-year-old Adel Kermiche was wearing an electronic surveillance bracelet when he and another attacker […]
ISIS Jihadists, Mass Shooters: What’s Happening to the World?
Source. The Daily Beast Every day, there’s a fresh atrocity, from jihadists attacking a church in France to gun rampages in the U.S.—and there are patterns to the madness. PARIS — On Tuesday, two men burst into a church in bucolic Normandy during morning mass. They took five people hostage, […]
Donald Trump’s Call for Russia to Hack the U.S. Might Be a Felony
Source. The Daily Beast. Did Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump just call for a felony to be committed? On Wednesday, he urged a foreign government to hack an American citizen […]
Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead
Source. CNN (CNN)At least 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a stabbing spree at a facility for disabled people west of Tokyo, making it one of Japan’s deadliest mass killings since World War II. Nine men and 10 women, ranging in age from 18 to 70, were killed […]
World is at war
Source. CNN Francis said Wednesday that “the world is at war” as he addressed the slaying of a Catholic priest by radical Islamists in France, but he stressed it was not a war of religion. Speaking on the papal plane en route to Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day celebrations, Francis […]
Poll: American views on Muslims and the Middle East
A recent public opinion survey conducted by Brookings non-resident senior fellow Shibley Telhami sparked headlines focused on its conclusion that American views of Muslims and Islam have become favorable. […]
Video: Imran Khan on Equal Rights for All Ahmadi Muslims and Every Faith
.@mehdirhasan asks politician @ImranKhanPTI if he fears for his life when discussing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.https://t.co/h5leWOIfjY — UpFront (@AJUpFront) July 27, 2016 Interviewer is Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera
Human Enhancement: The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Striving for Perfection
Human Enhancement | Pew Research Center By David Masci Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental capabilities […]
Can Pakistan’s president house host its Ahmadi citizens on an Eid celebration?
Source: ET There are over three million (1% of the United States population) Muslims living in America. Even though anti-Muslim animus is generally on the rise across the country, President Obama has increasingly stood up for the Muslim American community. He has passionately promoted pluralism and diversity in the United States and vouches for religious tolerance […]
Wife’s bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport
Source: ET GENEVA: A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border. More:
Muslim women beaten over rumours of carrying beef in India
Source: Dawn. Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence in many parts of the Hindu-majority country, police said Wednesday. The meat the women were carrying has since turned out to be buffalo, but police in Madhya […]
Hindu youth killed as communal tensions rock Ghotki after ‘sacrilege’ incident
Source: Dawn GHOTKI: Communal tensions ran high in Sindh’s Ghotki district on Wednesday, after a Hindu man was arrested for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran a day earlier. Two Hindu men were shot having tea at a stall in Ghotki’s town of Mirpur Mathelo during an attack by a mob […]
French church attack: Faith leaders call for more security
Source: BBC French religious leaders have called for more security at places of worship following the murder of an elderly priest in Normandy on Tuesday. Representatives of Christian, Muslim, Jewish […]
STATEMENT OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY FOLLOWING FRANCE CHURCH ATTACK
All members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community throughout the world have been left shocked and devastated by yesterday’s murder of Father Jacques Hamel in a church in France The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community considers this to be an outrageous and evil attack that can never be justified in any way or […]
I am a Muslim doctor. I saved a Christian in Pakistan and it nearly cost me my life
Guardian: I am a Pakistani medical doctor, currently receiving political asylum in the US for the past year and a half. I sought refuge here after having to go through much humiliation and outright hatred for trying to practice ethical medicine and for belonging to a religious minority in my […]
Bill Clinton: If you are a Muslim and love America and freedom …
Bill Clinton: If you are a Muslim and love America and freedom and hate terror, stay here and help us win and let us make a future together, we want […]
The Muslim Times 