Ram Rahim Singh: India guru jailed for life over journalist’s murder
Source: BBC News An Indian guru has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a journalist who exposed sexual abuse of women at his sect. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, […]
Indonesia leader to free radical cleric behind Bali bombings
Source: Associated Press By NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The ailing 80-year-old radical cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists in Indonesia will be released from […]
Divisions overshadow Lebanon’s Arab summit as few leaders come to Beirut
Jan 18, 2019 By Ellen Francis and Angus McDowall BEIRUT (Reuters) – Divisions among Arab states over Syria, and internal Lebanese disputes, have overshadowed a summit to be held in […]
Gaza: Give people the right to choose
Jan 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Just in case people forget, there is a territory in the Middle East called the Gaza Strip, where nearly 2 million Palestinians live […]
NZ’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to discuss Islam and Rights
Saturday, 19 January 2019 Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community NZ Hundreds of Kiwi Muslims will gather at their south Auckland mosque over the Auckland anniversary weekend to celebrate the annual […]
Pakistan bans soft music on its flights: Ah, the naya bans in Naya Pakistan!
From Ahmadis to buffaloes and cheese, Naya Pakistan is newly defining the ABC of bans! | 18-01-2019 DailyBite Pakistan, we’ve been informed, is turning over a new leaf. It has a shiny new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who wishes to build a Naya Pakistan. For this, he’s started early. […]
Hunza Girl Guides win National Award for pioneering environmental project
The.Ismaili | 18 January 2019 | Pakistan The Hunza Girl Guides recently achieved national recognition from the Pakistan Girl Guides Association for their work to protect the natural environment. The […]
Prominent Kurdish politician argues to save Islam from Salafism
Source: Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The head of the executive body of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Politburo says that Islam has to be saved from Salafism to […]
Islam between Culture and politics
Shahzada Rahim January 17, 2019 Islam is both cultural and faith system but not a political ideology (Politicization). The politicization of Islam in past decades had created a distinction […]
Chaguan: History shows the folly of China’s paranoia about Islam
Crude attempts to sinicise the faith will alienate Muslims Print edition | China Jan 17th 2019 IT IS A shame that so few Chinese remember General Bai Chongxi, a brilliant […]
Malaysia: Goldman Sachs must pay, apology not enough
AP January 18, 2019 Goldman CEO David Solomon apologized Wednesday to the Malaysian people for its former banker Tim Leissner’s role in arranging bond sales for 1MDB PUTRAYAJAYA, […]
‘Levant’s transition to Islamic rule was gradual for majority of population’
By Saeb Rawashdeh – Jan 17,2019 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The transition from the Byzantine to Early Islamic period was drastic when looks at only historical literary sources, claimed a […]
Ilhan Omar, the Muslim congresswoman Saudi Arabia tried to smear, secures place on powerful House committee that could stop the US from selling arms to the kingdom
Alexandra Ma Ilhan Omar, a first-year member of Congress, was chosen to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. The committee oversees bills and investigations related to […]
Saudi Arabia pumps money into restive Shi’ite quarter it once flattened
17 Jan 2019 AWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: The old quarter of Awamiya, a town on Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing eastern shore that was once the centre of Shi’ite protests, was levelled […]
India risks becoming a Hindu Pakistan
by Mihir Sharma. Follow @mihirssharma on Twitter India is, and has been since independence in 1947, a liberal secular democracy. Its first generation of leaders resolutely refused to accept the argument of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah that the Hindus and the Muslims of the subcontinent represented two different nations. […]
Trump’s plan proposes Palestinian state on most of occupied W. Bank, excluding holy sites: Israeli TV
Israeli television said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the illegally occupied West […]
Malaysian Islam seen through 3 men
Tajuddin Rasdi – January 17, 2019 10:11 AM 3.6k Shares I wish to present three perspectives of Islam concerning the concept of choosing a “leader” in Malaysia. This article is […]
We saw final moments of MH370, say fishermen
Ainaa Aiman – January 16, 2019 SUBANG JAYA: An Indonesian fisherman today said he and three others had witnessed the final minutes of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which […]
Artificial intelligence may soon cause unprecedented disruption
Ellen R. Wald January 16, 2019 Workplace automation, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, is on the rise. (AFP) A prominent Chinese venture capitalist, Kai-Fu Lee, has […]
Turkey scrambles to draft a roadmap for post-US troop withdrawal
Jan 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkey’s military has shifted its focus from north-eastern to north-western Syria since Al Qaeda’s Hayat Tahrir Al Sham defeated Ankara’s surrogate factions […]