Source: The Washington Post By Tim Craig KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan — Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances […]
Source: The New York Times By AMANDA TAUB WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump, reiterating his call to restrict Muslim immigration to the United States, has adopted a tactic that has long been a mainstay of strongmen and sectarian provocateurs: portraying outsiders as a threat to women’s safety. In a foreign […]
Source: The salt lake tribune By ERIN ALBERTY Andy wanted a blessing. He had awoken in a haze after a suicide attempt with painkillers and began to panic. He didn’t want to die. But he didn’t know if he could live. Andy’s first, secret boyfriend had raped him and dumped […]
Source: Associated Press ULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man’s family, who […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The victims of a D.C. rabbi who was convicted of illegally recording naked women as they prepared for a ritual bath are demanding […]
Source: Reuters By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – According to interviews with U.S. physicians, some Roman Catholic hospitals not only refuse to provide some women’s health services like abortion, but may also prevent doctors from referring women to facilities that would provide them. Services including sterilization, contraception and fertility services […]
Source: Time By Sean Gregory/Rio de Janeiro The line snakes out of the door and into the Olympic athlete village in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations of track-suits and warm-up […]
Source: Time By Jill Colvin and Julie Pace (TETERBORO, N.J.) — Republican Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign again, it was revealed Wednesday, bringing in Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. The move comes just 82 days before the November election and […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer As history buffs and film fans know, there weren’t enough lifeboats for passengers aboard the Titanic. As the boats, some less than full, pulled away from the sinking ship, debate began among the lucky few about whether to return to pluck the drowning from the water. […]
Source: BBC By Dominic Casciani Home affairs correspondent For 20 years Anjem Choudary stood on street corners, in shopping precincts, outside mosques, embassies and police stations and used his megaphone to drive a wedge between Muslims and the rest of Britain. Now he has been convicted of inviting others to support […]
Source: BBC “New Yorkers tend to use a lot of hand gestures,” and Donald Trump is no exception. Body language expert Mary Civiello breaks down the top five gestures Donald Trump uses when he speaks. Video by Jasmine Taylor-Coleman and Anna Bressanin video
Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post There’s a full-fledged political debate going on in France over, well, proper swimming attire. On Sunday, a small town on the island of Corsica became the third city in France to outlaw burkinis, a form of modest swimwear worn by […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to a BBC survey, in 2007, one billion people world wide are suffering from anxiety and […]
Mobile Muslims demystify Islam through Calgary on cross-country tour The group is also celebrating 50 years of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Canada AARON CHATHA / METRO Shahrukh Abid said it’s been a long road, but very rewarding to talk with Canadians. By: Aaron Chatha Metro Published on Wed Aug […]
16 AUG 50TH JALSA SALANA UK HIGHLIGHTS Posted at 11:13h in Digital Articles by web team Jalsa Salana UK 2016: Inspection of Duties https://youtu.be/m9qyykjlo40 Jalsa Salana UK 2016: Flag hosting and opening address by Khalifatul Masih V https://youtu.be/Hj-vBlUF2AQ A year in the life of Khalifatul Masih V (2015-2016) […]
IndiaToday.in | Edited by Sanjana Agnihotri New Delhi, August 17, 2016 | UPDATED 15:30 IST Love all, hate none: More than 30,000 Muslims protest against religious extremism More than 30,000 Muslims from across the world gathered in Hampshire, United Kingdom, to protest against the Islamic State and to reject religious extremism. BRIEFCASE Over 30,000 […]
Source: accessatlanta.com Learn more about Islam at Gwinnett County mosque 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 Learn more about Islam at Gwinnett County mosque The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Georgia is holding a free event, “Coffee, Cake & Islam,” to help people learn more about the faith. There will be a discussion […]
“Every departure from orthodoxy is not apostasy, although witch hunt is not the monopoly of any particular religion,” the late V. R. Krishna Iyer (Indian judge & minister who reformed the Indian criminal justice system). Source: indianexpress.com | southasiamonitor.org Written by Tahir Mahmood | Updated: August 17, 2016 12:45 am The White Minaret with […]
Source: Slate By Isaac Chotiner, who is a Slate contributor. Why Islam resists secularization, and how that continues to shape the politics of the Middle East. One of the hopes that […]
Source: Balkan Insight The announcement by Croatia’s interior minister that ‘false Serb residents’ of the town of Vukovar will be deleted from its population list, thus enabling the Serbian language and Cyrillic script to be abolished as one of its official languages, has sparked yet another rise in tensions between […]