Religion and Education Around the World
Source: Pew Research Center Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious […]
Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion
Source: Pew Research Center 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not BY MICHAEL BARTHEL, AMY MITCHELL AND JESSE HOLCOMB In the wake of […]
Aleppo battle: Rebels burn Syria evacuation buses
Source: BBC Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts […]
Islamist radicals in Germany backed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Qatar – German media
Source: RT A number of Islamic religious groups from the Gulf States are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments, Suddeutsche Zeitung paper […]
Why was an Ahmadiyya mosque attacked in Pakistan?
Source: TRT World The religious group identifies as Muslim but has been targeted for years because of beliefs which conflict with the more orthodox sects. Earlier this week, a mob […]
‘Tis the season for animal rights
Source: RNS By Ben Williamson (USA Today) At this time of year, we often see animals subjected to cruel holiday stunts or treated as living props in our confusing pageantry. […]
The Case For Incorporating Spiritual Care In Medicine
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Dr. Christina Puchalski is familiar with death. The palliative care doctor and founder of the George Washington Institute for […]
In India, a Clash at the Top of the Tata Empire Gets Ugly
By GEETA ANANDDEC. 17, 2016, NYTimes.com MUMBAI, India — In India, where corruption is a fact of life, the Tata Group — a powerhouse conglomerate that makes Land Rovers, operates the historic Pierre Hotel in New York and sells the world Tetley tea — has been held up as the exception to the […]
The Pope Benedict’s account of resurrection and the hearsay rule!
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Christian Easter story mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in this article. […]
Daoism and Monotheism
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Allah created mankind and took it upon Himself to guide them, as He says in the Qur’an, […]
John the Baptist: A Witness against Pauline Dogma
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The more we know and learn about John the Baptist, more apparent it becomes that Pauline dogma […]
Thousands attend Berlin rally for Aleppo
Source: The Local “What is happening there amounts to what is the worst in the world,” said Mahmoud Almizeh, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee who comes from Raqa, now the bastion of the Islamic State jihadist group. Germany has opened its doors to some 600,000 Syrian refugees since the conflict began […]
America is the greatest Islamic Caliphate
Source: The Express Tribune By Shah Faesal, who is a Kashmiri civil servant and writer. He tweets @ShahFaesal_IAS Last Friday, Maulvi Sahab again said that God’s wrath is soon going […]
2016, the year the Daesh ‘caliphate’ buckled
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises as Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government take cover during a battle with Daesh militants in Sirte on October 2 (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Daesh terror […]
Putin and Erdogan push for Syria talks without U.S. or U.N.
Reuters International DEC 16, 2016 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Andrew Osborn and Nick Tattersall MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said he and his Turkish […]
Scandal
Source: Dawn But let’s hear it for scandal. This sudden, unexpected, most delicious season of scandal — scandal that has broken on us and over us in wave after surprising wave.It’s hard to keep track. Supreme Court tearing into government. Politicians tearing into the Supreme Court.The new chief sullied before […]
Commission decries lack of reliable data about seminaries
Source: Dawn The 110-page report has pointed out that the ISI neither has a website nor an email account. When the commission checked whether the spy agencies of other countries too were inaccessible, it found out that almost all the important agencies had made their contact details, like telephone numbers […]
Third Annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies launched in Abu Dhabi
Source: WAM, Emirates news agency ABU DHABI, 18th December, 2016 (WAM) — The events of the Third Annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies were launched today in the […]
Are human rights in crisis?
Source Swiss Info By Klaus Dingwerth, who is assistant professor for political science at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland as well as a non-residential fellow with the Global Public Policy […]
More ominous than many before
Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President-elect Donald Trump seems to have some ominous surprises up his sleeve for the Palestinians, in particular, and the Arab world, in general. He asked his long-time adviser and friend David Friedman, a hardline pro-Israel lawyer, to be the US ambassador to Israel. […]