Pakistan election: Five things to know about Imran Khan
Source: BBC News Early election results suggest the ex-cricketer is on course to become Pakistan’s prime minister. Original Story
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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
Report Documents Disturbing Rise In Anti-Muslim Street Incidents In The U.K.
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla PETER NICHOLLS / REUTERS Women attend Eid Festival 2017 in London. A British hate-monitoring group said in-person Islamophobic incidents in the U.K. rose 30 percent from […]
Delaware Mayor Apologizes After Muslim Kids In Shirts, Hijabs, Kicked Out Of City Pool
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, has apologized to a local Islamic school after a group of Muslim children wearing shirts, shorts and hijabs were […]
These Candidates Could Be America’s First Muslim Women In Congress
Source: Huffington Post By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman DEEDRA ABBOUD / STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES / RASHIDA TLAIB / FAYROUZ SAAD / TAHIRAH AMATUL-WADUD From left: congressional candidates Deedra Abboud, Ilhan Omar, Rashida […]
Nicaraguan priest says church is being persecuted during government crackdown
Source: Washington Post By Carol Morello From the rectory where he lives in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, the Rev. Raul Zamora had been hearing gunfire from a distance for months. […]
Chile summons Roman Catholic cardinal in sex abuse case
Source: Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A cardinal has been summoned to appear in a Chilean court as the scandal over sex abuse by priests and others tied to […]
Eritrean Christians released from shipping container prisons
Source: Religion News Service BY Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – Eritrean Christians and human rights advocates are cheering the release of 35 Christian prisoners as a new peace pact […]
Haiti missionary sentenced to 23 years for child sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN BALTIMORE (AP) — A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in […]
Punk Muslims erase tattoos (and sin) in conservative Indonesia
Source: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Dot by dot the laser sears the ink from Ucup’s flesh, leaving it red and raised, but there’s a look of calm satisfaction on his face. With […]
Company unveils moving mosque to welcome Muslims in Japan
Source: Associated Press By NICOLA SHANNON TOKYO (AP) — A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of […]
Syria war: More than 200 dead in suicide attacks
Source: BBC News At least 215 people have died in a series of apparently co-ordinated attacks in south-western Syria, local officials and a monitoring group say. Several suicide bombings struck […]
Will Modi stop India’s cow terrorists from killing Muslims?
Source: Washington Post By Barkha Dutt There is a repugnant euphemism that has entered the lexicon of Indian prime-time television lately. “Cow vigilantes” has become contemporary shorthand for murderous right-wing mobs […]
Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims
Source: Foreign Policy BY NITHIN COCA A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan and a hand bearing the colors of the Chinese flag […]
Stop the ‘weaponization’ of religion in Pakistani politics
Source: Religion News Service BY Johnnie Moore & Gayle Manchin (RNS) — This week, as hundreds of religious leaders, nonprofit heads and government officials gather in Washington for the State Department’s […]
Missouri man gets 2 years for hate crimes directed at mosque
Source: Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to a Georgia mosque has been sentenced to two years in prison. […]
Amid new sex abuse scandal, O’Malley issues warning to church
Source: Boston Globe By Martin Finucane and Danny McDonald Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said Tuesday he was “deeply troubled” by the allegations of sexual abuse by one of the […]
In Western Europe, familiarity with Muslims is linked to positive views of Muslims and Islam
Source: Pew Research Center BY SCOTT GARDNER AND JONATHAN EVANS A woman outside the East London Mosque after the first Friday prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images) Across […]
George Takei: America will fix the mistake of Trump’s travel ban
Source: CNN By George Takei (CNN)As a Japanese-American who grew up behind the barbed wire of US internment camps, I sensed the cold dread that Muslims must have felt when […]
Swedish student stops deportation of Afghan man with protest streamed on Facebook
Source: CNN News By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN)A student used a Facebook Live Stream to prevent the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker on board an Istanbul-bound plane at Gothenburg […]
Imran Khan’s Journey into Religion
This article was originally published in Arabnews By Imran Khan My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been […]