A Modi Victory Puts India’s 200 Million Muslims in Danger
Source: The Nation By Ruchira Gupta On Thursday, India will announce election results that could put the country’s 200 million Muslims in danger. Over the last five and a half weeks, […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
In an Indian village, Muslims talk of leaving as divide with Hindus widens
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das, Zeba Siddiqui, Aftab Ahmed NAYABANS, India (Reuters) – Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with […]
Trump’s New Plan Would Require Immigrants to Pass a Test. Here’s What Happened When the U.S. Tried That Before
Source: Time BY ABIGAIL ABRAMS When President Donald Trump introduced a new immigration plan last Thursday, he told Americans that he wanted to shift the focus of the U.S. immigration system, going from […]
Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place
Source: The Guardian Indian elections are a marvel to behold. The rules stipulate that no citizen should have to travel more than 2km to vote. So the state goes to […]
New Zealand PM Ardern is the face of a new generation of former Mormons
Source: Religion News Service BY Jana Riess Earlier today in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had a meeting with President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
Muslim Lawmakers Host Ramadan Feast At Capitol
Source: NPR By Hannah Allam As Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was wrapping up her remarks to the crowd at a Ramadan gathering on Capitol Hill late Monday, she […]
GOP Rep. Justin Amash Breaks With Party, Says Trump Engaged in ‘Impeachable Conduct’
Source: Time BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE / AP (WASHINGTON) — A Republican congressman from Michigan on Saturday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s party on Capitol Hill to accuse him […]
Muslim Members Of Congress Host A Historic Iftar In The Capitol
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz On Monday evening, three Muslim members of Congress ― Reps. André Carson (D-Ind.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) ― hosted a historic […]
As India’s Election Ends, Warring Parties Burn a Village
Source: The New York Times By Vindu Goel and Shaikh Azizur Rahman BOGAKHALI, India — Riya Mondal could not stop crying. Standing in front of the burned-out shell of her family’s home […]
Iraqi Shiite figures warn US-Iran war could ‘burn’ Iraq
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD (AP) — Leading Iraqi Shiite figures warned Monday against attempts to pull their country into a war between the U.S. […]
Al Jazeera suspends journalists for Holocaust denial video
Source: BBC News Al Jazeera has suspended two journalists over a video they produced that denied the facts of the Holocaust. The Qatari state-funded broadcaster had published the video on […]
Sikhs say Nordstrom apologized for turban, waiting for Gucci
Source: Associated Press By Anita Snow PHOENIX (AP) — Nordstrom has apologized to Sikhs for selling a turban they found offensive, but a representative with the U.S. community’s top civil […]
India’s Hindu groups to double down on demands as Modi set for big win
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu temple on a disputed site, life in jail for killing cows and ending the autonomy of India’s only […]
Under Modi, Hindu hardliners turn Indian theatre into a battleground
Source: Reuters BY Anuja Jaiman NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in February in the Kashmir Valley, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar […]
Putin calls for compromise over Orthodox cathedral standoff
Source: Associated Press By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a compromise Thursday to ease tensions over a plan to build a […]
Western Companies Get Tangled in China’s Muslim Clampdown
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Eva Dou and Chao Deng AKSU, China—Western companies, including brand name apparel makers and food companies, have become entangled in China’s campaign to forcibly assimilate its Muslim […]
Modi faces backlash for backing terror accused candidate Pragya Thakur
Source: Reuters By Zeba Siddiqui BHOPAL, India (Reuters) – For nearly a decade, Pragya Thakur was known mostly as the saffron-clad Hindu ascetic shuttling in and out of Indian courts, flanked […]
Jinn From Wikipedia
Promoted Post: Why Everything and Every New Discovery in Quantum Physics Glorifies Allah, and: Do Jinns Exist: Majority of the Muslim Scholars Say Yes, the Populace is Ambivalent? From Wikipedia, […]
Hamza Yusuf on Jinns: Powerful Men or Demons?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The above audio is a presentation by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf about Jinns. I have too much respect for him to […]
Russia jails Dane for six years in Jehovah’s Witnesses purge
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organizing a banned extremist group and jailed him for […]