A follow-up: Islam embraces gender equality
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee Part of the feedback to my April 6 Local View column, “Quran forbids men from hurting wives,” indicated a mistaken inference by some […]
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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
eDigest: Boko Haram does not represent Islam
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
India’s ‘Womanifesto:’ How central are women’s rights to this year’s elections?
CNN: by Monica Sarkar — The gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 marked a sharp turning point for the debate on women’s rights in India. The protests that exploded nationwide following the incident brought the issue forcefully to the political […]
Religious Tolerance, Sultan Mehmed II and the Prophet’s Promise
Lostislamichistory: Prophet Muhammad ﷺ promised his followers in the Arabian Desert that they would one day conquer the most powerful and legendary city of the day, Constantinople. For centuries, it seemed like […]
The Missing ‘R’
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assignedto helping the other monks in copying the old canonsand laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks arecopying from copies, not from the originalmanuscript. So, the new monk goes to the Old Abbot to […]
I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
The Mind Unleashed — Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the homeless and develop his craft at the same time. Instead of building sculptures that he would sell to […]
It’s Time for Muslim Outrage Against the Boko Haram
Huff Post: I remember the first time I met a young Muslim woman who had been beaten by her father for refusing to marry a man from their country of […]
Scientists Create First Living Organism With ‘Artificial’ DNA
Huff Post: For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that […]
Fasaad Fi sabilillah?
Dawn: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked him off to such an extent that he planned to kill Dr Ali […]
Investigators fail to decode arrested FBI agent’s devices
Source: ET FBI agent Joel Cox. KARACHI: Even after hours of arrest, investigators failed to decode information from the devices belonging to a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent arrested at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Express News reported on Thursday. FBI agent Joel Cox was travelling from Karachi to Islamabad […]
French Soccer Club Hires Woman to Coach Its Men
Source: NY Times: Helena Costa, whose father did not like soccer and who often had to go to neighbors’ homes to watch games, will become the first woman to coach a men’s professional soccer team in France. Clermont Foot 63, a second-division club in Clermont-Ferrand, announced on Wednesday that Costa […]
Keep Indonesia Secular, President Yudhoyono Urges
Source: The Jakarta Globe Jakarta. Indonesia is not a Muslim country and any efforts to turn it into one must be resisted, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday as […]
Boko Haram does not represent Islam
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Dear Boko Haram: You’re Spitting in the Face of Muhammad
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
New definition of a ‘Pakistani’
Source: pakteahouse.net | Obaidullah Khan If you are living in a wooden cottage and see someone setting the very next wooden cottage on fire, what would you do? If you sit quietly and […]
Afghan immigrant attempts to cross the Channel on a raft with bedsheets for sails
Telegraph: Asif Hussainkhil was saved after being picked up less than two nautical miles off Sangatte near Calais. A young Afghan man has been rescued by the French coastguard after risking his life trying to reach Britain on a makeshift raft fashioned from three planks and propelled by a bed […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims Plan To Extend Humanity First To Belize
Source: amandala.com.bz Belize is a country on the northeastern coast of Central America. Naveed Mangla, a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, told Amandala that his group, established in Belize 6 […]
Geert Wilders on ‘slippery slope’, Jewish group states
Telegraph: A Dutch Jewish group has attacked Geert Wilders for building alliances with far-Right-wing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s Front National. Geert Wilders on is on a “slippery slope” by forming a European election alliance with Marine Le Pen and an Austrian far-Right party with a “Brownshirt past”, a […]
For Muslims, Boko Haram is disgrace
Source: CNN (CNN) – Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have, and we’re utterly certain that it condemns kidnapping young girls and selling them into slavery – no matter what you say “Allah” tells you. According to Amnesty International, […]
NEW NIGERIA OUTRAGE
Source: CNN Boko Haram militants reportedly kill at least 150 people as authorities offer a $310,000 reward to help find abducted girls. More: