Fatwa against Muslim travel to Aksa Mosque
The Jeruslem Post: The Palestine Scholars Association, a radical Islamic body in the Palestinian territories, issued a fatwa on Wednesday banning foreign Muslims from visiting the Temple Mount as long […]
Jordan: Islamist party denounces Israel’s move to change definition of Palestinian refugees
by Rhiannon Williams JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Islamic Action Front (IAF) on Wednesday called on the government to take a “decisive” stance against Israeli attempts to change the legal status of Palestinian refugees through UN organisations. In a statement made on Wednesday, the IAF said that Israel is trying […]
Madinah remains eternal capital of Islamic culture
MADINAH: JASSIM ABUZAID & YOUSUF MOHAMMAD ARABNEWS Wednesday 13 March 2013 Prominent personalities from different parts of the Islamic world attended the inauguration of yearlong celebrations by Crown Prince Salman, […]
Peace? Follow the children
The Jerusalem Post: The need to categorize and critique each other is killing us all. Let us not fear difference, but embrace it. A Jewish kid from Kiryat Shmona, a […]
Syria: When Nonviolent Revolutions Spin Into Bloodshed
by by Janine di Giovanni THE DAILY BEAST Srdja Popovic goes around the world teaching nonviolent techniques to activists to overthrow autocrats. Whenever he talks about the Arab Spring, he […]
Syrian conflict turns Lebanon into transshipment hub
By Lysandra Ohrstrom The Daily Star Story Summary Before the conflict in Syria erupted in 2011, potatoes exported from the Bekaa Valley would travel by truck to Latakia’s port, where […]
US, UK and France training Syrian rebels in Jordan – reports
Foreign instructors are training Syrian rebels in modern warfare in Jordan, suggest media reports from Europe. Sources claim the trainees will be the security force if Assad goes, while the […]
Dirty Palestinian pavement that could end Israel
Source: Today’s Zaman Not a single week passes without news reports on Israel’s unfair treatment of its subjects and Israel is awash with ubiquitous apartheid practices, particularly in the occupied […]
UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels freed, arrive in Jordan
AMMAN — Filipino UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels on the Golan arrived in Jordan on Saturday, hours after their captors released them from an ordeal of more than three […]
Saudi (lady) journalist wins media leadership award
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR ARABNEWS Sunday 10 March 2013 On the occasion of International Women’s day, Nawal Al-Rashid, Saudi managing editor of the female section at Al-Riyadh daily newspaper and secretary […]
Data shows upsurge in investments by Syrian businessmen in Jordan
The number of Syrians investing in Jordan shot up by 197 per cent during the first two months of this year, the general controller of companies, Burhan Akroush, told The Jordan Times on Saturday. Burhan Akroush said 101 Syrian investors launched new ventures at the Companies Control Department (CCD) during […]
HUMAN RIGHTS : Women “carry all” of Palestine’s sufferin
GAZA CITY (IPS) – “In Gaza we don’t lead normal lives, we just cope, and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation,” said Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time women’s rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women’s Day, when many of the world’s women […]
Bin Laden son-in-law detained overseas, brought to New York (with the help of Jordan)
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Truce of Hudaibiyah: A Grand victory in Islamic history
Epigraph: “Indeed, we have granted thee (Muhammad) a clear victory, That Allah may cover up for thee thy shortcomings, past and future, and that He may complete His favor upon […]
Allah’s mercy and the fragile world we live in
OF THE 99 beautiful names of Allah, it is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim that we use most frequently in our prayers and du’aa. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from the same Arabic root word, rahma, meaning “mercy, compassion.” Pickthall translates Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim as “the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and Yusuf Ali […]
Netanyahu’s children
…… not the prime minister’s biological children, but they all were the creation of his spirit, students of his views and pupils of his government’s policies. These Israeli skinheads are […]
Indonesian women who made it big (in Saudi Arabia)
Two Indonesian women, who came to work in Saudi Arabia as domestic helpers, have become millionaires after inheriting millions of riyals from their late Saudi husbands. The Saudi men initially employed them as domestic helpers but later married them. One of the women living in Riyadh received SR 5 million […]
MWL TV channel to spread Islamic message, defend Muslim causes
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Thursday 7 March 2013 The International Media Organization, an affiliate of the Makkah-based Muslim World League, has announced plans to establish a television channel and […]
Jordan: 8,000 saplings to be given to mosque, church goers on Friday
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Mosque and church goers will leave on Friday with tree saplings to plant in their gardens under a campaign to raise awareness about […]
Arab League clears member states to arm Syria rebels
CAIRO — Arab League ministers decided on Wednesday to let member nations arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad, and invited an opposition coalition to take the League seat formerly […]