Morocco to create sharia board to oversee Islamic finance – decree
Feb 17 (Reuters) – Morocco is to create a sharia board of Islamic scholars to oversee the country’s fledgling Islamic finance industry, according to a royal decree. It is the […]
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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
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat
Washington (CNN)They’re carrying out sporadic terror attacks on police, have threatened attacks on government buildings and reject government authority. A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security […]
Dissenting voices silenced in Pakistan’s war of the web
Suggested Reading: A Compliment in Disguise: Pakistan Government has Banned the Muslim Times Source: Guardian YouTube is banned and tweets are censored, while pornography thrives and foreign Islamist militants have their […]
Disabusing Those Who Stereotype Against All Muslims
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam
Source: Patheos February 18, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and overcome ISIS terrorism. […]
Does Anyone Care That Shia Are Being Relentlessly Murdered in Pakistan?
Source: Huffington Post By Fiyaz Mughal, Director of Faith Matters and the Tell MAMA project The recent murders of Shia community members in Pakistan has not drawn out the shock and […]
Putin Now poses ‘real and present danger’ to Baltics
Source: Arab News: LONDON: British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a “real and present danger” to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Thursday and said NATO is getting ready to repel any possible aggression. Fallon, whose remarks were published as Britain said it had scrambled jets […]
Poland agrees to pay reparations to Guantánamo detainees
theguardian: by Alan Yuhas — Court found Poland violated international law by allowing CIA to host a secret facility where Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were tortured Polish foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna said details would be worked out in the next few weeks. Poland will comply with a court […]
Where the Foreign Fighters for IS Are Coming From?
Source: NY Times: At least 20,000 fighters have travelled to Syria and Iraq over the course of the recent conflicts in the two countries, according to a recently updated report by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence. In response, many countries have passed laws making […]
Muslims plan ‘peace ring’ around Oslo synagogue
Source: The Local A group of young Norwegian Muslims plans to create a human ring around Oslo’s synagogue following the Shabat celebration this Saturday, in a gesture they are calling a ’Peace Ring’. More:
IS harvesting organs!
Source:ET Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad al-Hakim, asked the Security Council to investigate allegations that the Islamic State (IS) is harvesting organs in order to finance its operations, Al Arabiya News reported. The ambassador stated that bodies with missing kidneys and surgical incisions had been unearthed in shallow graves over […]
HIV vaccine that transforms cell DNA brings fresh hope
Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health editor, BBC News website A radical new approach to vaccination seems to completely protect monkeys from HIV, US scientists report. Vaccines normally train the immune system to fight an infection. Instead, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California have altered the DNA of monkeys […]
Obama: No religion responsible for terrorism
Source: USA Today David Jackson, February 18, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he doesn’t use terms like Islamic extremism because doing so would promote the false idea of […]
Op-Ed by President Obama: Our fight against violent extremism
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Getting Ready for Easter
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Allah but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:104) Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of […]
Dementia hits women hardest – study
theguardian: by Robin McKie — Research finds disease now leading cause of death in British women; many are also carers before succumbing themselves An MRI scan of a human brain. Women over 60 are now twice as likely to get dementia as breast cancer. Women are bearing the brunt of the […]
‘Skunk-like cannabis’ increases risk of psychosis, study suggests
Editor’s pick: Pregnancy, Alcohol and Islam Former skunk user Liaquat Zaman: “It brought me to a very dark place in my life” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Warning over ‘skunk’ cannabisListen Skunk dangers prompt health fearsWatch Cannabis and psychosis: Your stories Smoking potent cannabis was linked to […]
Indian prime minister claims genetic science existed in ancient times
Source: The Guardian Maseeh Rahman in Delhi, Tuesday 28 October 2014 Narendra Modi gives examples of Karna and Ganesha to support view that cosmetic surgery and reproductive genetics used thousands of […]
Ash Wednesday: 46 Days to Easter, Let us Study Resurrection
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity. It occurs 46 days (40 fasting days, if the 6 […]
Women Less Welcome Than Men in Fields Demanding Brilliance
Biosciencetechnology.com: by Cynthia Fox — Women are less welcome than men in fields—including philosophy, physics, math, and music composition—where brilliance is viewed as more important than effort, says a co-ed Princeton University/University of Illinois group in a recent Science. The team “noticed a pattern I had never heard of: that certain […]