Source: Guardian UK By Sheeza Ahmad … The mention of Muhammad is significant to understand how today’s Muslims are encouraged to create wealth; supporting the notion of an existing relationship between Islamic business and social enterprise. According to Sir Zafrullah Khan, the former Pakistani politician and diplomat, the Holy Qur’an […]
Story Summary ARABNEWS Jan. 11, 2013 Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the Mideast and predicted that the now-disgraced […]
Story Summary President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of state testified at his confirmation hearing that the United States must get its fiscal house in order to lead in the […]
Source: The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The United Nations opened a major new investigation on Thursday into the United States’ use of drones and targeted assassinations. The U.N. investigation, led by special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson, is expected to focus on the legal justification for America’s […]
Stanford University Source: Huffington Post Researchers at Stanford University have created HIV-resistant T-cells, a breakthrough that, if proven successful in humans, could potentially stop the virus from developing into AIDS. […]
More than 170 Ahmadi Muslim men age 40-and-over gathered from all over the country to attend a three-day Leadership Conference at the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino. The men are members of an auxiliary within the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community called Ansarullah, which means “Helpers of Allah.” (The men are collectively […]
abc.net: by Abdul Hakim Murad: Must one be liberal to belong to the West? For all the polite multiculturalist denials, this question is being put to us more and more insistently. The European Union, as it struggles to articulate a common cultural as well as economic vision, regularly toys with […]
Global Post: SKOPJE, Macedonia — On Jan. 12, thousands of citizens in the Republic of Macedonia marched through the streets here to express shared outrage over their government’s use of force against journalists and opposition members of parliament on Christmas Eve. The forcible suspension of press freedom and the physical […]
Time NewsFeed: Rebecca Nelson. “Though we’ve certainly had our history of conflicts, people do generally try to get along with one another.” There’s a new voice in the controversy over anti-Muslim ads in New York City subway stations, and it sends a loud message. Talk Back to Hate aims to […]
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The magnificent Kremlin of Kazan (a Unesco World Heritage) with its orthodox church and mosque, a symbol of coexistence among different religions. Religion promotes peace and harmony. It builds bridges […]
He said, “All of you are equal. All men, whatever nation or tribe they belong to, and whatever station in life they may hold, are equal…an Arab possesses no superiority […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar And the winner of the Oscar for Best Sequel of 2013 goes to… The Global War on Terror (GWOT), a Pentagon production. Abandon all hope those who thought the whole thing was over with the cinematographic snuffing out of “Geronimo”, aka Osama bin Laden, […]
Huff Post: By najeeba Miller: The shaykh with whom I studied ethics would speak nearly perfect Arabic throughout the day and address everyone in his path with great respect, even in the grammar of his speech. I asked him why he put such care into his choice of words, he would say, “Najeeba, […]
President Obama’s 2nd Inaugural Address The president vows to “give meaning to our freedom” in his 2nd Inaugural address.http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/inauguration-2013-president-obamas-2nd-inaugural-address-full-18274078
By Paul Kokoski I have enclosed the following letter for publication. Please let me know if you intent to print it. Thank you. I am disappointed that homosexual partners Elton John and David Furnish have adopted another child via a surrogate mother. Last June, the American scientific magazine “Social Science […]
Epigraph: “O mankind, We (Allah) 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. Indeed, […]
Today is Inauguration Day in America, when President Obama will be sworn in for his second term. It’s also, as chance would have it, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So it’s a good time to get to know Myrlie Evers-Williams, a civil rights leader, former chairperson of the NAACP, and—as […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Could Islam help, by providing absolute standards in regards to alcohol and other drugs? Source: Rapid City Journal Additional Source: Press and Sun, Jan 20, […]