Noam Chomsky Interview: Sykes-Picot Is Failing
By: Maha Zaraket al akhbar Published Sunday, June 16, 2013 American author and professor Noam Chomsky was in Beirut to give a commencement speech and accept an honorary degree at […]
Supporting Converts to Islam Should Concern Us All
Source: The Huffington Post By Ruqaiyah Hibell: Researcher at New Muslims Project We need to better understand the needs and challenges faced by female Muslim converts A groundbreaking report produced by the Centre of Islamic Studies (University of Cambridge) in association with The New Muslims Project is launching today at the School […]
Peaceful Muslims Do Exist! (Ahmadi Muslims)
OccupyBawlStreet.com: By Grizzly Joe. The mere fact that “most Muslims say Ahmadis are not Muslim” makes these folks our friends. Your humble blogger knows that all Muslims are not evil, despite what one might conclude from the violent acts of Islamic Jihadists and Islamic apologists’ attempts to cover up the […]
JFK- US will never Start a War- The 1963 Peace Speech that led to Nuclear Disarmament
Youtube: The beginning of President Kennedy’s “Peace” speech given at American University, June 10, 1963. Noteworthy are his comments that the US was seeking a goal of “complete disarmament” of […]
As the US wants to arm ‘nice Syrian rebels’ we must remind ourselves that weapons are not just guns. They are about money – Hardware will end up in the hands of al-Qa’ida, says Robert Fisk
Tosh! That’s the only sane reaction to the White House’s announcement that America the Brave is to arm the Syrian rebels. The US doesn’t plan to send weapons to the horrid rebels, mark you – not to the al-Qa’ida-inspired al-Nusra Front whose chaps film themselves eating Alawites for YouTube videos, […]
Bigger threat: Edward Snowden or NSA?
By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN updated 8:44 AM EDT, Sat June 15, 2013 Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks […]
House Passes Rohrabacher Amendment Tying Human Rights in Pakistan to U.S. Military Aid
rohrabacher.house.gov: Today, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-CA) amendment tying the Defense Department’s ability to give monetary aid to Pakistan’s military to its treatment of ethnic and religious minority groups was included in final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 by the House of Representatives. The amendment requires the […]
Google: We’re No NSA Stooge and We’ll Prove It if the Feds Let Us
Source: Time Tech giant Google has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission to publish the number of national-security information requests it receives from the government, including requests made […]
Most And Least Muslim States In America
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s note: Baitur Rehman of Maryland of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is included in the 52 pictures. Huff Post: A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, […]
Man Behind Syrian ‘Chemical Weapons’ Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up
White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 14, 2013 Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President […]
Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11
We Created Al Qaeda to Fight the Soviets in Afghanistan Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the […]
Islam Answers: Reconciling Human Suffering and Existence of God
This is modified form of a speech given at an interfaith symposium in Buffalo, NY, on June 10, 2013 to some 50-70 non-Muslim guests. By Ataul Wahid Lahaye, Canada As a Muslim, we recite […]
Obama’s Monica moment
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar The United States may have administered one of the biggest-ever snubs to the Kremlin in the post-Cold War era with the White House announcement on Thursday that it will provide military support to the Syrian rebels. The announcement in Washington said: Following a […]
Big Data, Big Idea or the Big Principles?
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have modified the original title. What would big data think of Einstein? Source: BBC By Sydney Finkelstein: Professor of strategy and leadership, and Dean for Executive […]
US says it will give military aid to Syria rebels
The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give details about the […]
Where Atheism Stops And Religion Begins
Huff Post: by Andrew Schwartz. Many of my friends who have transitioned from being religious to being atheists speak of the deep existential peace that it gives them. This is huge and nothing to be argued with. Anyone who has found themselves on the despair side of Sisyphean struggle knows […]
End of Racism in USA, White children nearly a minority, says US census
Muslim Time’s Editor’s comment: Headline has been partially modified by us. Source: BBC For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a […]
IAEA reform is long overdue
Source: Asia Times. By Yousaf Butt The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was designed as an apolitical technical agency that – among other things – takes regular accounting of member states’ nuclear material to make sure none is diverted to weapons uses. However, the agency has been veering from its […]
Hear No Evil, See No Evil
Huff Post: by Charles Redfern. Someone picked up scissors and snipped our mentalities. Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like preacher in an empty comedy club. Such imagery comes […]
Violence up 5 percent worldwide since 2008: Report
The world has grown more hostile in recent years, according to the Global Peace Index. Hopes that we can all just march toward ever-greater peace and equality saw a serious […]