The child welfare crisis is not only limited to border separation
I Was in Foster Care. Family Separation Isn’t Just a Problem at the Border Source: Time By SHERRY LACHMAN Lachman, who was a domestic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, […]
This photographer spent the year since Charlottesville documenting white supremacists
Source: Time Charlottesville, Va., blew up a year ago, the tiki torch march illuminating the night skies of Aug. 11, 2017 and street confrontations ending in death the next day. […]
IBM has a Watson Dilemma
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Daniela Hernandez and Ted Greenwald Can Watson cure cancer? That’s what International Business Machines Corp. IBM -1.23% asked soon after its artificial-intelligence system beat humans at the quiz show “Jeopardy!” in 2011. […]
Erdogan warns of ‘economic war’ as Turkish lira carnage spooks global markets
The Turkish lira crash is threatening to turn into a debt and liquidity crisis with no end in sight. Instead of acting, the Turkish leadership has warned of an “economic […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia working on new Middle East plan with Trump’s blessings: report
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AP Photo The Trump administration has been heavily invested in a new Middle East plan that involves Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Mohammed Bin Zayed, […]
Turkey will start looking for new allies if US attacks persist, Erdoğan warns
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned Turkey would start looking for new friends if the U.S. continues with its unilateral actions against its NATO ally amid […]
The Muslim Times Promoting Hijab rather than Burqa after Boris Johnson’s ‘Burqa Storm’
Boris Johnson, a ‘Burqa Storm’ and Perhaps Some Populist Calculations Source: The New York Time By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura LONDON — The gibe, ridiculing burqa-wearing Muslim women as “letter boxes” and […]
Spike Lee Wants BlacKkKlansman to Wake America Up
Source: Time By Rembert Browne | Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems for TIME August 9, 2018 It’s a picture-perfect day on Martha’s Vineyard. Families stream by on a heavily foot-trafficked thoroughfare, while […]
The social media outlets: a haven or a curse?
Aug 09,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Marwan M. Obeidat In an age dominated by hi-tech and supreme digital advances, social media outlets (websites and other applications that enable users to […]
Muslim woman becomes America’s first headscarf-wearing TV reporter
ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON AA Photo Tahera Rahman knew her road to becoming the U.S.’s first headscarf-wearing Muslim television reporter would be fraught with obstacles. After graduating from Loyola University Chicago […]
The Quran Gives Principles of Justice, But No Judicial System
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Supreme Court of USA during the time of President Obama made several decisions in favor of […]
Why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion
By Becka A. Alper A growing share of Americans are religiously unaffiliated. We recently asked a representative sample of more than 1,300 of these “nones” why they choose not to […]
Has the ‘post-integration’ phase really come for Muslims in Europe?
NAZMUS SAKIB Mesut Özil’s decision to quit the German national football team in the face of widespread racial slurs reminds us of the Tariq Ramadan case for several good reasons. […]
Abuse of economic power
Aug 07,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The US is using its sanctions regime as a powerful whip against countries which it views as hostile. President Donald Trump has used this weapon against Iran with considerable success by forcing the effective devaluation of its currency and bringing the country to […]
Churches moving towards digital donations
Tap and pray: Churches using card readers for donations Source: Associated Press By JAMES BROOKS LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Christian churches across the world are now using portable card […]
A comparison of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and Robinson Crusoe on the migration crisis
FERHAT KÜÇÜK PublishedAugust 6, 2018 Libyan fishermen throw a life jacket at a rubber boat full of migrants trying to reach Italy soils, Feb. 13, 2017. Fictional characters help us […]
Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen under investigation for tax fraud -WSJ
Reuters International This content was published on August 7, 2018 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen exits his hotel in Manhattan, New York, U.S., July […]
Trump’s gambling problem
Aug 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK — At a summit with US President Donald Trump in Helsinki last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin proved that […]
Non-Sectarian Islam: The Proportionate Faith
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslim Times is the Mecca for interfaith tolerance and non-sectarian understanding of Islam. Almost every sect […]
Hopes of legalizing abortion as Brazil’s supreme court prepares for a two day public hearing
Brazil’s Supreme Court Considers Decriminalizing Abortion Source: The New York Times By Manuela Andreoni and Ernesto Londoño PETRÓPOLIS, Brazil — For three days after she had an illegal abortion, Ingriane Barbosa Carvalho hemorrhaged […]