The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: As we stop profiling Afro-Americans, we do not have to start profiling the Muslims. Washington (CNN) – Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, has been a member of Congress for almost two decades. Yet when he is walking down the street in Washington, D.C., at night and white […]
blogtalkradio.com: On this episode I am happy to have special guest Harris Zafar who will speak with me about balancing professional life with observance of Ramadan. Harris serves as National Spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA – the oldest Muslim organization in the United States. In this role, Harris presents […]
by John Glaser, July 19, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry has now gone to Israel-Palestine six times in five months in an attempt to restart negotiations between the two […]
Source: expressandstar.com Mosques in the region have urged worshippers to stay away from the event. Government officials held the talks at the Aisha Mosque in Walsall where a homemade bomb was discovered close to the building last month. The congregation at Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Wolverhampton, Walsall, Blackheath and Birmingham have […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Scientists have analyzed page edits in 10 editions of Wikipedia to determine the topics most often fought over by editors of the open encyclopedia. The most debated topics included many religious […]
Source: The Conservative Papers. Barack Obama and his merry band of extremists are some of the most out-of-the-mainstream operatives in American politics today and the woman who is our US Security Council to the UN has a long history of essentially calling for the destruction of Israel, our only true ally in […]
islamfoundingfathers.wordpress.com: This is certainly an intriguing question and one which Alexandra Meav Jerome considers in a piece for Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Jerome writes: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution contain similar clauses on some topics. The Constitution of Medina states: “The Jews shall maintain their own religion and the […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar When the Group of Eight summit took place in Northern Ireland last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the diplomatic grapevine, wanted to use the gym at the Enniskillen resort, but his American counterpart Barack Obama had already booked it. Neither would […]
Source: Spiegel America is sick. September 11 left it wounded and unsettled — that’s been obvious for nearly 12 years — but we are only now finding out just how grave the illness really is. The actions of the NSA exposed more than just the telephone conversations and digital lives […]
A new revert blogger, by the name of Marjana, chronicles his experience of keeping fasts in Ramadan. Being a Muslim for the first year I was a little bit afraid before my very first fasting in Ramadan. As I was a person, who had never fast before it was difficult […]
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — America first learned of the 9/11 hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported two calls from his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson. […]
International Business Times: Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy. “America […]
Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson and Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press 4:41 p.m. EDT July 18, 2013 DETROIT — The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal […]
Source: Conservative Papers: I wrote an article 3½ years ago, at a low moment in Obama’s first term, when his ratings tanked and his party just lost Edward Kennedy’s senate seat to a Republican, that usefully suggested that Obama could “salvage his tottering administration” by taking “dramatic gesture to change […]
Source: TOI NEW YORK: Oops! PayPal, the online money-transfer company, has accidentally credited a man in Delaware a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800, making him by far the richest man in the world. Chris Reynolds, 56, said he was shocked when he received his monthly statement via e-mail from PayPal last week, with […]
By MIHIR ZAVERI and LISA LEFF Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO—The University of California’s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups’ claims that she marginalized […]
STORY SUMMARY One of the worst recurring features of U.S. foreign policy is a process that might bluntly be described as “seduction and abandonment”. On June 13, the White House announced it would provide military aid to the Syrian opposition because the Assad regime had crossed a “red line” by […]
AFP | Jul 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee for UN envoy Wednesday slammed the global body’s “unacceptable bias” against Israel, and pledged to lobby hard to get America’s closest Mideast ally a seat on the Security Council. Even as detractors criticise her past statements […]