The Drumbeat of Ramadan
By ANDREW FINKEL INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ISTANBUL — It is the holy month of Ramadan and, just before twilight, my Istanbul neighborhood fills with an intoxicating smell from the two […]
Writer Defends His Handling of Interview With Assad
Even when his country was not convulsed by war, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria rarely gave televised interviews to foreigners. His session with Barbara Walters in December was a public […]
‘Sultans of Science’ at the National Science Museum in Thailand
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN ARABNEWS Wednesday 8 August 2012 Sultans of Science, a global traveling exhibition of MTE Studios, United Arab Emirates, will bring history back to life at the National […]
Syria heading to abyss without political solution, King Abdullah (of Jordan) warns
Jordan Times AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has voiced concern over the continued conflict in Syria, warning that if no political solution is found soon, the country will be […]
Just what Israel wanted: Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels after border attack
Jordan Times RAFAH — Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian militants. As officials considered how to respond to the deadliest assault along […]
Contempt of court: SC issues show-cause notice to PM Ashraf
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 8, 2012 ISLAMABAD: While getting its short order penned down in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation […]
Picture of the Day: Appreciating Flowers!
Awww Yeah Flowers!
Rohingyas and Ahmadiyya: Some Parallels between Burma and Pakistan
Monks, military and Myanmar – a Pakistani’s déjà vu by Tahir Mehdi Dawn: In my young age, I had a fascination for mandirs(temple). I wished to see one. I didn’t know […]
Iran to unplug from Web to escape West’s ‘Internet monopoly’
RT: Tehran plans to remove its key ministries and state bodies from the Internet next month, calling the worldwide web “untrustworthy.” The action is the first phase in a planned Iranian project to replace the Internet with a domestic intranet. The country’s key ministries will be unplugged from the global […]
Bangladesh seeks more control over Grameen Bank
Source: Daily News The founder of Bangladesh’s pioneer micro-lending institution, the Grameen Bank believes that the government’s latest move to expand the power of the chairman could hurt the millions of poor borrowers. Last year Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was fired from his position at the bank by the government […]
Gaza panics as Sinai bloodshed severs tunnel trade
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories – “If this closure continues it will be a disaster,” says Abu Taha, who runs one of hundreds of cross-border smuggling tunnels that were closed after a […]
Muslims help Jains for temple construction during Ramadan in India
Source: Deccan herald Patna July 28, 2012, (IANS): In an example of communal harmony in India, Muslims in the holy month of Ramadan have helped in the construction of a […]
Ahmadi charged with posing as Muslim for second time in Sargodha
Source: The Express Tribune LAHORE: An Ahmadi jeweller in Silanwali, Sargodha was charged with blasphemy for the second time in his life for “posing as a Muslim” and for putting up a translation of the Quranic text in his shop. Muhammad Ashraf, who was earlier charged along with his co-workers in […]
Disinformation flies in Syria’s growing cyber war
PETER APPS | REUTERS ARABNEWS Tuesday 7 August 2012 LONDON: On Sunday, it was a hijacked Reuters twitter feed trying to create the impression of a rebel collapse in Aleppo. On Monday, it was another account purporting to be a Russian diplomat announcing the death in Damascus of Syrian President […]
UAE mobile field hospital to serve Syrian refugees in Jordan
UNFPA clinics to serve Syrian women Jordan Times | Aug 07, 2012 | AMMAN — The UAE mobile field hospital arrived in Jordan on Sunday night to provide health and humanitarian services to Syrian refugees in the Kingdom. The hospital will start receiving patients during the coming few days, the […]
Institute holds interfaith roundtable with Australians
Jordan Times | Aug 07, 2012 | 00:25 AMMAN — The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) on Sunday held a roundtable on “Religion and Society in the Middle East” in collaboration with the Australian embassy in Amman. According to a statement from the institute, the Australian participants were headed […]
From Archives: Rohingyas trained in different Al-Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan
By William Gomes – Bangladesh Bangladesh is terrorized by Islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism has created a culture of fear in Bangladesh. Our main objective is to bring out the nation […]
Bangladesh: Jamaat Islami eating iftar, doing politics
The daily Star: Jamaat-e-Islami now appears to go on with a revised strategy to take advantage of the month of Ramadan to conduct a countrywide campaign against the government and […]
The two faces of religious persecution in Pakistan
Credit. Dawn.Com via Wasim Sroya It’s a horrible time to be a Christian, Hindu, an Ahmadi or any other minority group in Pakistan. For starters, let’s recount a few reported incidents of persecution carried out to “safeguard Islam” these past few days: minarets destroyed at Ahmadi mosques, mentally unstable man […]
Ahmadis, Why it’s not a minority issue?
Rabwah.net: by Dure Adan: 1400 years ago in the city of Medina, the political ruler of the time whose name was Muhammad ordered a census. My guess is that it […]