April 22, 2014 – 00:28 By Missy Ryan and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan may drop well below 10,000 – the minimum demanded […]
Huff Post: by Omar Sacirbey — (RNS) Ask Jalon Fowler, a 38-year-old IT specialist for John Hancock Financial Services, what advice she would give to two Muslim friends who will each be running their first Boston Marathon, and this Muslim convert is happy to opine. “Go easy; stay relaxed,” Fowler […]
theguardian: by Geoffry Robertson — In 1976, I was a junior lawyer on Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter’s retrial defence team. His story has a significance that should outlive his death. It all began with the riots in Watts and Harlem in the early 1960s, which left 13 black children killed by […]
Source: The Time Magazine By Rabia Chaudry, who is an attorney and the founder and president of the Safe Nation Collaborative. History is witness to a time past when the Islamic civilization produced globally unparallelled architecture, literature, science, philosophy, theological discourse, and cultural influences – influences so strong it made European […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kimberley Winston, Published: April 18, 2014 “On the third day, he rose again.”That line, from the Nicene Creed, is a foundational statement of Christian belief. […]
A Muslim Times Original By Abdul Alim I grew up reading a lot of interesting fiction. Some of it was interesting stories with good moral lessons and some was just plain wild and mesmerizing. The most fascinating were those, where things happened always supernaturally, there were heroes who would not […]
Source: host.madison.com Dear Editor: The bombing of the Boston Marathon last year was a tragedy. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stated that the bombings were done to protect Islam from the United States. However, Islam unequivocally rejects the taking of innocent lives. The Quran states: “Whosoever killed a person … it shall be as […]
Mail Online — ‘Life is purposeful, death is optional, God is technological and love is essential’: The new tech-inspired religion that uses ‘mindfiles’ and robots to store your soul for ‘future revival’ Why can’t God and science exist concurrently? And why shouldn’t we remain relgious while embracing the ways technology […]
Source: muslimwriters.org | Salaam Bhatti Earlier this week, the NYPD disbanded its Muslim surveillance program. Good riddance. Through all the pain, suffering, and headlines this operation caused over the course of a decade, […]
Source: muslimwriters.org | Duluth News Tribune One year removed from the Boston Marathon bombings, people raise eyebrows about Muslims’ loyalty to the United States or Islam’s viewpoint on terrorism. The bombings had no […]
UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador Samantha Power to UN called on Myanmar’s government Thursday to take urgent steps to stop the violence in the western region where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, warning that continuing unrest could imperil the country’s path to democracy and prosperity. Power linked the smooth […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite; Professor of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary ‘Happy Easter!’ You hear it everywhere, in malls, in streets, and in churches. But is […]
Source: BBC The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite. So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page. This is […]
STORY SUMMARY US prosecutors unveiled plans Thursday to sell an Iran-owned Manhattan skyscraper in the largest terror-related seizure ever, and distribute proceeds to families affected by attacks linked to Tehran. Among the creditors are families and estates of victims of the 1983 bombings of US Marine barracks in Beirut that […]
The Pew Research Center’s 2013 Global Attitudes survey asked 40,117 respondents in 40 countries what they thought about eight topics often discussed as moral issues: extramarital affairs, gambling, homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex, alcohol consumption, divorce, and the use of contraceptives.1 For each issue, respondents were asked whether this is morally acceptable, […]
Epigraph: And this life of the world is nothing but a pastime and a sport, and the Home of the Hereafter — that indeed is Life, if they but knew! […]
Source: muslimwriters.org The innocent lives taken at the Kansas Jewish community center and senior living facility was a heinous act against mankind — and I’m deeply sorry to the families who […]
Source: canliizle.in Video Description: Debaters: Sadat Anwar (MDI Canada) and Ansar Raza (Ahmadi-Qadiani missionary) This is an entire video taken from MDI (www.TheDebateInitiative.com). Public Debate: Are the Ahmadiyya part of Islam? (Click […]
Source: The Star By: Jennifer Bain This is what Easter might taste like for 1,000 hungry Torontonians in Bloordale Village. Lightly curried boneless chicken leg, or mixed vegetables and chickpeas, […]
Oxfordislamstudies: The Barbary Wars In 1786, while Jefferson was serving as the United States Ambassador to France, the issue of piracy in the Mediterranean became the most serious economic threat to the newly established United States. Independence from Great Britain had had economic consequences abroad. This was before international law had established protections […]