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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Faith Leaders Leading the Fight Against Income Inequality in New York
Huff Post: All throughout history, clergy of all faiths and denominations have been deeply involved in the fight for civil rights and for fair and just treatment for all people. Here in the United States, priests, ministers, rabbis and clergy of other faiths took part in — or supported — […]
Monica Lewinsky Speaks out – was made a scapegoat
Published May 06, 2014, FoxNews.com Facebook 370 Twitter 347 Gplus 26 Monica Lewinsky, now 40 and 17 years removed from her affair with then-President Bill Clinton, is speaking out — offering what could be uncomfortable details as Hillary Clinton is thought to be preparing a White House run. Lewinsky has penned an account […]
Rahul Gandhi wants to see US President wearing a wrist watch with “made in Mirzapur” tag
Source: MIRZAPUR (UP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi wants to see the US President wearing a wrist watch with “made in Mirzapur” tag.The Gandhi scion said he wants to develop manufacturing hubs on national highways so that when the US President looks at his watch, the tag on it should be […]
Dr. Khalid Minhas of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hallandale invited to address members of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor in Lantana
Source: sun-sentinel.com | Shani McManus, Staff Writer While he was there to speak about his experience as a Muslim physician treating Holocaust survivors, the two-hour discussion covered a variety of religious and political […]
Wisdom Isn’t What You Think It Is, And It Doesn’t Always Come With Age
Huff Post: by Gregory Beyer — Sorry, the wise are an exclusive group. That’s not just because wisdom is so difficult to attain, but because a given society can tolerate only a small percentage of wise people, Staudinger said. A society in which every citizen walked around radiating wisdom couldn’t […]
Supreme Court to Atheists: If you don’t like it, leave the room
After Supreme Court ruling, do religious minorities have a prayer? By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-editor (CNN) – If you don’t like it, leave the room. That’s the essence of Supreme […]
Supreme Court to Atheists: If you don’t like it, leave the room
After Supreme Court ruling, do religious minorities have a prayer? http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/crime/2014/05/05/nr-supreme-court-rules-on-public-prayer.cnn By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-editor (CNN) – If you don’t like it, leave the room. That’s the essence of […]
Muslim physician learns from Holocaust patients
SunSentinel: by Shani McManus — While he was there to speak about his experience as a Muslim physician treating Holocaust survivors, the two-hour discussion covered a variety of religious and political subjects, and ended with an improved mutual understanding. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Khalid Minhas, director of […]
Supreme Court blesses prayer at town meetings
msnbc: by Adam Serwer — The “moment of silence” that Greece used to begin its town meetings with until 1999 would seem like the fairest compromise, and the one least offensive to the Constitution’s prohibition on government religious favoritism. With a moment of silence, every believer can pray according to […]
Boston heroes with a mission
Source: thedailystar.net | Monsura Sirajee The tragedy of death is met with the gift of life. The Annual Boston Marathon turned into nightmare last year when two blasts killed three people and injured […]
US Supreme Court Allows Prayers at Town Meetings
Source: NY Times By ADAM LIPTAK MAY 5, 2014 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York may begin its public meetings with a prayer […]
Nobel-winning US economist Gary Becker dies at 83: University
ET: CHICAGO: Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behaviour won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has died at age 83, the University […]
Pastors Ordained by God to Demystify Christianity
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
Canada & WWI: First soldier to die for Canada was a Sikh
Sikh soldier lays at rest, far from homeland and adopted land Sunta Gouger Singh was among 10 Sikh soldiers who fought with Canada in the Great War, and the first […]