Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER by Justine McDaniel, Staff Writer Bensalem Township has temples, synagogues, and churches, but in 2014 Bucks County’s largest municipality declined to grant a permit for a mosque. That, said the U.S. Justice Department in a suit filed Thursday, constituted religious discrimination. The suit seeks to have […]
Source: BBC By Rowena Henley Deep within Australia’s vast desert, a tremendous tower of rock has been forming for some 600 million years. For Aborigines, Uluru is sacred, full of […]
Source: BBC By Dave Lee North America technology reporter Dropping your smartphone when taking a selfie could soon be less risky, says specialist glass maker Corning. It has launched its next […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I recently had dinner with a friend of mine, who is an agnostic and is a professor of […]
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Source: The Huffington Post By Kareeda Kabir Student, Human, Writer Yet another tragedy has fallen upon […]
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
Source: Reuters President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the contributions of Muslim immigrants to the United States, saying any effort to discriminate against the Islamic faith plays into the hands […]
theguardian: by Ramona Aly — Complaints are pouring in after the Sun’s columnist criticised the headscarf-wearing newsreader. He’s manipulating an already volatile anti-Muslim climate ‘As a British, Asian, Muslim woman who wears a headscarf, it makes me utterly proud to see Manji breaking through stereotypes and glass ceilings to front […]
Source: BBC In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it’s traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a “hyena” once they […]
Mumbai, July 22: The arrest of Arshi Qureshi in Navi Mumbai is expected to provide more leads into the functioning of the Islamic Research Foundation founded by the controversial Islamic preacher, Dr Zakir Naik. In a joint operation the Kerala and Mumbai Police arrested Qureshi from his residence in Navi […]
Source: BBC By Martha Henriques Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties If there’s any subject […]
Keith Olbermann provides his decidedly amateur analysis. Source: Vanity Fair Short answer: probably not. First, several important caveats. There is little worse and nothing cheesier than questioning the psychological stability […]
Source: championnews.com.ng Ahmadiyya to establish University in Osun BISIRIYU OLAOYE Ahmadiyyat Muslim Jama’at Nigeria will soon join league of religious organizations in Nigeria that own universities as it has proposed to establish a university in Osun State. Already, 250 hectares of land have been acquired for the establishment of the tertiary […]
Schools in Ireland are forcing children of atheist, secular and minority faith families, into religious instruction and Catholic faith formation. Source: irishnews.com The Evangelical Alliance of Ireland (EAI) has joined Atheist Ireland and Irish Ahmadiyya Muslims in calling for reform to religious education (RE) to allow pupils to choose another subject […]
Source: Religion News Service MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) An Indian Muslim women’s rights organization is training women to be qazis, or judges, a role traditionally reserved for men, amid growing […]
Source: Religion News Service By David Gibson (RNS) Amid heightened tensions over ISIS-fueled terror attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric, a prominent U.S. cardinal says Islam “wants to govern the world” and […]
Source: BBC By Tao Tao Holmes When a cloud-seeding pilot flies inside a storm, it is not a matter of flying from point A to point B: you are trying […]
Source: BBC By Ella Davies We all know that getting from A to B can be a slog, but spare a thought for the animals that cover thousands of miles […]
Source: Time By J. Richard Cohen @splcenter J. Richard Cohen is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center Barbara Davidson—LA Times via Getty ImagesAll Lives Matter protesters come together for a […]
Source: Bloomberg More U.S. employers are taking steps to make Muslims feel accepted and safe at work, as their faith comes under scrutiny with the rise in terror attacks and […]