Source: yourallen.dallasnews.com | By Saima | saima_mahfooz@hotmail.com American Muslims stand in solidarity with Hindu Americans to champion universal freedom of religion and protection of all houses of worship Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA decries the recent arson attacks on a Hindu dharamshalla and temple in Larkana, located in Pakistan’s Sindh province These attacks […]
Source: Time By Alice Park @aliceparkny A new report shows the brains of autistic children, who suffer from the disorder tied to a combination of contributing factors from genes to the environment, have differences in regions that develop during the mother’s second trimester of pregnancy While autism is almost certainly the result […]
huntersvilleherald.com: CHARLOTTE – Ahmadiyya Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Baptist, Unitarian and Jewish leaders spoke at the fourth annual interfaith Path to Peace conference and banquet March 22 near Northlake Mall. The point […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Comment: I hope President Obama openly acknowledges his middle name ‘Husain’ and some of his Islamic background, to the Pope and presents him a new book […]
HRW: (Beirut) – President Barack Obama should raise human rights issues during his visit to Saudi Arabiaon March 28-30, 2014. His visit comes as Saudi authorities are clamping down on civil society activists and peaceful dissidents, and have arrested and deported at least 250,000 foreign workers since November, according to the […]
Provided Student Needa Malik makes friends with Blue III, the Butler University Bulldog mascot. 6 hours ago • Kimberly Cheek-Stanley Times Correspondent Needa Malik, 22, is halfway through an internship at the U.S. headquarters of Islamic Relief near Washington, D.C. The Butler University international studies major […]
Huff Post: by William Stillman — In my work as a spiritual counselor and adviser, I encounter all too often people who do not pray, pray inconsistently, or who don’t know how to pray. A common excuse is that they “forget,” like forgetting to floss or balance the checkbook. Some […]
Huff Post: — Former President Jimmy Carter is issuing a call to action for religions to stop using scripture to trample on women’s rights. He spoke about his new book out today, “A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power,” with HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski and responded to […]
Millennials in Adulthood Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends Overview The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to […]
Source: independent.com In the Spirit of Freedom of Religion, Reps Form New Group The impetus of the United States was but a handful of pilgrims fleeing from religious persecution. Since the founding of this great nation in 1776, freedom of religion has been etched into the fabric of our Constitution and impressed […]
Source: CBC Munir Ahmad moved from Pakistan to Canada in 1999, died of a heart attack last week Saskatoon’s Muslim community and people in Pelican Narrows, Sask. came together in […]
Source: Asia Times: The Hague Declaration comes complete with the kiss of death, as in, “The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine’s economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system.” That’s code […]
Daily Times: While sitting around lamenting our millennial lives, a friend of mine shared this morsel of wisdom she’d gotten from an older acquaintance. It was something like, when you’re young you have time and energy, but no money. When you’re middle-aged, you have energy and money, but no time. […]
By Leonard Pitts Jr., who is a columnist for the Miami Herald Who speaks for Ghanson Debrosse? Before he was born, many people did. Anti-abortion groups did. Churches did. Protesters did. And lawmakers did. Florida, for instance, requires that a woman undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion, and the provider […]
More than 300 people gathered at the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino to reflect on Ahmad’s teachings and life. Source: dailybulletin.com The Southern California chapters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held […]
Huff Post: by Aleena Hall — The Earth may not be flat nor is it the center of the universe, but that doesn’t mean old-world intellectuals got everything wrong. In fact, in recent years, modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, […]
Weatherwise: by Ed Darack — Splintering gale force winds, stabbing cold, blistering heat, blinding fog, pitiless rain … the sky can foul our lives in endless ways to all degrees, from the mild sting of an icy breeze on our ears to the lethal crush of a hurricane’s storm surge. […]
Suppressed Histories: by Max Dashu I would like to offer an alternative to the locked-in polarity between some of the more uninformed Wiccan takes on history and the denial by many academic historians that repression of social and cultural groups played any role in the witch hunts. Of course, the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Comment: I hope President Obama openly acknowledges some of his Islamic background, to the Pope and presents him a new book by Prof. Bart Ehrman, coming […]
Ahmadiyya Times: The Khalifa of Islam and the spiritual head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat (His Holiness), Mirza Masroor Ahmad will visit the United States in few weeks, it […]