Indian police receive life sentences for 1991 Sikh killings
Source: BBC Forty-seven police officers have been sentenced to life in prison by a special court in India for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in 1991 and then lying in an […]
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Outrage as Muslim pupils exempt from shaking female teachers’ hands in Swiss district
Source: Yahoo News GENEVA (AFP) – Male Muslim students at a school in northern Switzerland will no longer have to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that […]
A Muslim teacher is visiting a D.C. school to share Arabic and his culture
Source: The Washington Post By Perry Stein Hallie Martinez stood in front of a large easel reading foreign letters that, a few months ago, would have looked like just a […]
Tennessee lawmakers vote for Bible as state’s official book; but have they read it?
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Tennessee lawmakers vote for Bible as state’s official book Source: Associated Press By ERIK SCHELZIG NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — […]
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to ‘One Person, One Vote’
Source: Time By Mark Sherman / AP (WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts. […]
7 Ways to Boost Your Mental Strength When You Need it the Most
Source: Motto By Amy Morin When faced with tough circumstances, you may think that you’re unprepared to deal with life’s inevitable challenges. But you don’t have to wave the white flag just yet. Throughout my 14 years as a psychotherapist and while researching my book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People […]
The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar It’s hard to know where to start in tallying up the explosive revelations in the Panama Papers, an analysis of leaked documentsfrom global law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Yes, we’ve known for a while now that the shadow […]
Strangely in Sync: Scientists Solve 350-Year-Old Pendulum Clock Mystery
Source: Yahoo News By Charles Q. Choi The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more […]
India cuts interest rates to five-year low
Source: BBC India’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the first time this year. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate to 6.5% from […]
Identity 2016: Facebook lets blind people ‘see’ its photos
Source: BBC By David Baker Technology journalist As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can “read” photos and tell visually impaired people what appears […]
Vitamin D ‘heals damaged hearts’
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Vitamin D supplements may help people with diseased hearts, a study suggests. A trial on 163 heart failure patients found […]
We’re not taking Islamophobia seriously: This cancerous racism is on the rise — and it’s even more dangerous than you think
Source: Salon By QASIM RASHID This glaring fact was on the world stage this week for all to see. Blasts in Ankara and Brussels garnered shockingly different responses—both in terms of […]
Anti-Zionists Thrive in Israel, Why Not in the U.S.?
Source: The New York Times By Lisa Goldman A contributing editor and co-founder of +972 Magazine, a Tel Aviv-based digital magazine. UPDATED APRIL 4, 2016, 3:20 AM Zionism is a political ideology. It is not a religion. But for Jewish-Americans, more so than ever for Jews in Israel, Zionism is a […]
Young artists paint ‘Wall of Tolerance’ in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park
Source: Tribune A group of young Lahoris are using art to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the tragic Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park attack. Organised by Rohama Malik and […]
Charlie Hebdo under fire for calling Brussels attacks tip of Islam ‘iceberg’
Source: Tribune The editors of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have come under fire for linking the Brussels terror attacks to ordinary Muslims. In an editorial titled ‘How did we […]
Turkish ‘Ministry of Religion’ promotes martyrdom to children in colorful comic strips
Source: RT The latest issue of a children’s magazine published by Diyanet, the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, which is a government agency and the highest national religious body, contains a series of cartoons glorifying Islamic martyrdom. A colorful cartoon titled “may god bless our martyrs, may their graves be […]
How did evil evolve, and why did it persist?
Source: BBC By Lucy Jones Evil, it can seem, is all around us. Hitler. The Rwandan genocide. Ted Bundy. Every time you read the news or watch television, bad behaviour […]
Faith leaders ask candidates to give poor ‘living wage’
Source: RNS (RNS) On the anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dozens of faith leaders are calling for the U.S. presidential candidates to include a […]
Zoroastrian temple erected in New York
Source: USA Today By Peter D. Kramer, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News RAMAPO, N.Y. — Drive along Pomona Road in Ramapo, and you’ll find the new home for followers of one of the […]
Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?
Source: The New York Times When the University of California regents condemned “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism,” supporters of Palestinian rights said the university was suppressing criticism of Israel. In New York, […]