World is keen to cash in on Indonesia boom
NZ keen to cash in on Indonesia boom Prime Minister John Key and Trade Minister Tim Groser are in the Indonesian capital A must-seize opportunity to cash in on Indonesia’s […]
New entry requirement to Israel
Israel forces tourist to pledge to avoid pro-Palestinian activities as condition for entry Haaretz: A 30-year-old Swedish tourist was forced to sign an ‘obligation form,’ written in broken English, when […]
Despite innocent verdict, blasphemy accused shot dead by maulvi complainant
Express News: LAHORE: An elderly man, recently released from prison after acquittal by the court on proving innocent in a blasphemy case, was shot dead by the complainant in the Farooqabad […]
AMC Delhi Peace symposium Press Release : Religious leaders praise Ahmadiyya community’s efforts to promote Peace
15 April 2012 (New Delhi). Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]
Building Peace: New £1m mosque to open its doors to 1,000 worshippers in Moss Side
Menmedia.com: Amy Glendinning: A major new mosque to serve Muslims across the region is set to open within weeks after a three-year building project. The £1m Darul Aman Mosque in Moss Side, […]
Does Turkey offer a model that the Mideast can emulate?
By Nora Fisher Onar The Daily Star, Lebanon Turkey is often touted as an inspiration for the countries of the rest of the Middle East – a characterization it accepts […]
Red Sea Project developer to be announced by October – ministry
Ministry to meet with bidding companies next week by Hana Namrouqa | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The master developer of the Jordan Red Sea Project (JRSP) will […]
Philippines blinks, pulls warship from China standoff
Manila (AFP) – The Philippines pulled its biggest warship away from a standoff with Chinese vessels Thursday, but said the dispute was far from over with both nations deploying more non-military boats to the area. Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the Philippines decided to remove the navy’s flagship […]
Muhammad Khurshid Khan: Muslim Cleans Shoes In Shrines To Atone For Beheading Of Sikh By Islamists
Huff Post HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan — Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pakistan. The unassuming 62-year-old tending to the shoes is […]
Jürgen Todenhöfer: The West doesn’t want democracy in Syria
The Middle East expert and former member of the German Bundestag for the CDU party, Juergen Todenhoefer (Jürgen Todenhöfer), has sharply criticized the one-sided coverage of many media about the […]
Schools in India to give 25 percent seats to poor under ‘right to education’ act
Source: News Track India New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education act that mandates unaided private schools keeping 25 percent of seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society. However, the court made it clear that […]
Darul Uloom Deoband advises Indian Muslims to abandon polygamy
Source: India Today Deoband, the influential seminary, has directed Muslims in India to avoid practising polygamy, an initiative that has won instant approval much like the 2008 advisory that denounced terrorism as a grave sin against Islam. Responding to a query from a person who wanted to marry again while […]
Slow First Quarter in China, but Recent Signs of Growth
HONG KONG — The outlook for the Chinese economy may finally be looking a little less worrisome. Data released by the authorities in Beijing on Friday painted a picture of an economy that has lost much of the breakneck speed of previous years and that still relies on government-directed stimulus, […]
The Law and Economics of Family Management
Source: Jakarta Globe Author: Pramudya A Oktavinanda I wonder how many people are aware of this, but our Legislative Board (DPR) is currently in the process of drafting a law on […]
Kuwait mulls death penalty for insulting God, Prophet
Reuters | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT — Kuwaiti lawmakers voted in favour of a legal amendment on Thursday which could make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammad punishable by death, after a case of suspected blasphemy on Twitter caused an uproar in the Gulf Arab state. Members of […]
Imam Muslim: Great scholar of Hadith
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Hadith is the great wealth of Islamic literature. This is the collection of pearls of wisdom from orations and actions of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). There are hundreds of companions of the Prophet who preserved this knowledge through oral transmission. Later tens […]
Syrians not allowed to visit for Umrah
By JEDDAH: DIANA AL-JASSEM Umrah performers from all over the world have started to arrive in Jeddah, but Syrian people are banned from doing Umrah this year due to the cancellation of all flights and bus trips, according to a member of the Haj and Umrah committee at the Makkah […]
VIEW: Decipher a religious column
Dailytimes: Syed Kamran Hashmi: These politically motivated religious columns yield benefits to the author socially and reward the politician in the polls He starts his essay with a Quranic verse […]
DPC unhappy over Parliament’s unanimous decision to reopen Nato supply line
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: April 13, 2012 PESHAWAR: “You want to feed them so they grow stronger and attack us” an angry Maulana […]
Defining Street Children
The Jakarta Globe: Frequently at Sahabat Anak (Child’s Friend), people ask us, “Who is a street child?” A street child lives a complex life and as someone once remarked to […]