Twitter Celebrates Ramadan 2014 With 'Hashflags' And Much More
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Ramadan 2014 is upon us and Twitter is joining in the celebrations this year with special icons, instant iftar times, and an interactive map. […]
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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
Twitter Celebrates Ramadan 2014 With ‘Hashflags’ And Much More
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Ramadan 2014 is upon us and Twitter is joining in the celebrations this year with special icons, instant iftar times, and an interactive map. […]
Vatican Admits Most Catholics Reject Its Teachings On Sex
Source: The Huffington Post | By Nicole Winfield VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican conceded Thursday that most Catholics reject its teachings on sex and contraception as intrusive and irrelevant and […]
Pakistan’s forgotten minorities: Who has given these so-called ‘Muslim clerics’ the authority to arbitrate on issues of belief and disbelief?
Telegraph.co.uk: by Imam Abdul Quddus Arif — Early on a Monday morning last month (May 26), I was awoken by a very distressing text message which read ‘an Ahmadi doctor has been martyred outside of Bahishti Maqbara [an Ahmadi Muslim cemetery in Rabwah, Pakistan]’. I did not know who this […]
Qur’an lesson for the day: When thou recitest the Qur’an, seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected
161. When thou recitest the Qur’an, seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected [16:99] And when thou recitest the Qur’an, seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.
American History: The amazing arrogance of a slave owner and his former slave’s response
To My Old Master In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now […]
Stop Saying “Moderate Muslims.” You’re Only Empowering Islamophobes.
New Republic: Last week’s Heritage Foundation panel on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi was bound to be an ugly affair, what with the presence of panelist Brigitte Gabriel, a self-described “terrorism analyst” with a laundry list of offensive statements about Islam and Arabs. Sure enough, when attendee Saba Ahmed, an American University law school […]
Barcelona Bullfighting Ring may become Europe’s Largest Mosque
Guardian: The site of a former bullfighting ring in Barcelona could one day house the largest mosque in Europe, members of Barcelona’s Muslim community have said after announcing they have found […]
U.S. says Pakistani ‘charity’ front for banned militants
(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has named a self-proclaimed Pakistani charity as a “foreign terrorist organization”, a status that freezes any assets it has under U.S. jurisdiction. Jamaat-ud-Dawa calls itself a humanitarian charity but is widely seen as a front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group accused […]
Deportation Separated Thousands Of U.S.-Born Children From Parents In 2013
Source: The Huffington Post By Elise Foley elise@huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year carried out more than 72,000 deportations of parents who said they had U.S.-born children, according to reports to Congress obtained Wednesday by The Huffington Post. The reports were sent by ICE in April to the […]
What would the UK be called without Scotland?
Source: BBC The UK crops up on postcards, passports, in the United Nations and the Eurovision song contest. Would its name change if Scotland says “Yes” to independence, asks Esther […]
US House plans to ‘sue’ Obama over executive authority
Source: BBC The US House of Representatives will vote next month on legislation authorising a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, the speaker has said. Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused […]
US House plans to 'sue' Obama over executive authority
Source: BBC The US House of Representatives will vote next month on legislation authorising a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, the speaker has said. Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused […]
Uthman Badar: both Islamophobia’s victim and unwilling accomplice
theguardian: by Yassir Morsi — Islamophobia is not just bigotry or fear. It’s a frenzy that fills the gaps in our social imagination. As Badar’s cancelled talk shows, it also doesn’t require the Muslim to say anything In the last two days we have seen an eruption of Australia’s public and […]
Creationism Banned From UK Schools
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:104) The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz The United Kingdom government […]
eDigest: Pope Francis seeks an end to all kinds of torture
Epigraph: “None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” The Holy Prophet Muhammad Michael Servetus: A Unitarian Martyr in Trinitarian, Medieval Europe […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 150. And spend out of that with which We have provided you before death comes upon one of you
150. And spend out of that with which We have provided you before death comes upon one of you [63:11] And spend out of that with which We have provided you before death comes upon one of you and he says, ‘My Lord! if only Thou wouldst grant me respite […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 147. Spend in the way of Allah out of that to which He has made you heirs
147. Spend in the way of Allah out of that to which He has made you heirs [57:8] Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and spend in the way of Allah out of that to which He has made you heirs. And those of you who believe and spend will […]
Spain decides to make up for its persecution of Jews, but won’t do the same for Muslims
Global Post: MADRID, Spain — Half a century ago, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand presented Jews living here with a stark choice: leave, convert or face burning at the stake. Some 50,000 […]