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 […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 and hate terror, stay here and help us win and let us make a future together, we want […]
Views expressed are those of the author, we welcome TMT readers to express their views on this topic By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 16 July 2016 Let me first clarify the title of this article as the same appears to have been misunderstood. The Ahadith are normally understood to […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in the name of […]
Source: BBC Dolly the sheep’s “siblings” are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness. The first mammal to be cloned […]
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
Source: BBC By Tom Bonnett “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” It’s a phrase loved by linguists to show how a sentence can be read in […]
Source: BBC By David Robson A few years ago, Anna Katharina Schaffner became the latest victim of the exhaustion ‘epidemic’. It began with a kind of mental and physical inertia […]
RT: British Muslims are the most generous charity-givers, according to the UK’s Charity Commission, which says Muslims gave about £100 million to charities over the month of Ramadan alone. The […]
By: Muniba Saleem, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan On the morning of June 12, as details emerged from […]
Source: TOI NEW YORK: If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago. That’s the word from […]
Source: TOI LONDON: A woman in the UK has filed a court case against her neighbours for cooking spicy food which she says waft out “pungent toxic fumes”, causing her “respiratory problems” as well as choking. Joanna Louise Cridlin, an animal rights campaigner, is suing her neighbours’ landlord Viridian Housing at […]
Source: The Daily Beast Tuesday night will bring a pivotal moment of the presidential race when the mothers of black men and women who have been killed by gun violence or in police custody will takecenter stage at the Democratic National Convention. This night may not only further humanize an […]
Source: The Daily Beast. Two hostage-takers armed with knives were killed in France early Tuesday after they captured several people during Mass in a church in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. Police told Reuters that one civilian was killed—an 86-year-old priest who is reported to have had his […]