Source: The Guardian By Naureen Shah The Situation Room, a commander-in-chief with rapidly graying hair, a cluster of grim-faced men and women debating the ethics and the legality of a […]
Source: Aljazeera An online petition against triple talaq has been signed by 50,000 Muslim men and women across the country. By Shriya Ramakrishnan Twenty five-year-old Salma’s* life crumbled one morning […]
Palestinian men pray at a mosque in the West Bank city of Nablus on the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, July 27, 2012. (photo by REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini) Nablus’ ancient mosques tell story of religions throughout history NABLUS, West Bank — The mosques in the old town of Nablus, […]
Source: Al Arabia Nearly three million worshipers, including foreign umrah pilgrims and local visitors, performed isha (evening prayers) and taraweeh (special Ramadan prayers) prayers in the Grand Mosque in Makkah […]
Posted 02 Jul 2016 13:56 PHOTOS Myanmar has struggled to contain bouts of deadly religious bloodshed in recent years, with bristling sectarian tensions and rising Buddhist nationalism posing a challenge to the government AFP/Ye Aung Thu YANGON: A mob wielding weapons razed a Muslim prayer hall in northern Myanmar, state […]
Source. ET God forbid if we see a woman wearing jeans/go without a dupatta. Two or three days ago, a young woman was accosted by an older woman for ‘not wearing appropriate attire’. You can see what the poor young woman was wearing here. Not that that’s important. But, anyway. […]
‘I was a maths teacher. I shot him in the back of the head. Three times. I felt nothing. Now I regret.’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 1 July 2016 Unlike his […]
Source. Dawn YANGON: Myanmar’s new civilian government should prioritise ending deep discrimination against the Rohingya and other Muslims in restive Rakhine state, a United Nations envoy said Friday. Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, was speaking after a nearly two-week visit to the Buddhist-majority nation, her first since […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC Gunmen have stormed a popular cafe in the diplomatic area […]
It is not so much the rise of terrorism as the ‘rise of Islam’ that Japan sees as a problem, and the distinction between Islam and extremist organisations such as […]
By Riham Alkousaa and Maximilian Popp Konstantinos Tsakalidis/ DER SPIEGEL Refugee Mesut Mahmud The closure of the Balkan route has left tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece with nowhere to go. Smugglers who once profited from sneaking migrants deeper into Europe are now offering a new service: A […]
By AFP – Jul 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS — A much-awaited report by the Middle East quartet demands that Israel take urgent steps to halt the expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories, the UN envoy said Thursday. Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that ongoing Israeli construction […]
Rabwah Times — A Palestinian Shariah court in the West Bank city of Nablus has decided to invalidate a marriage after the wife converted to Ahmadiyya branch of Islam. On 20th June 2016, The Palestinian Sharia court made the final decision to dissolve the marriage of woman named “S.A” to […]
‘They made us terrorist suspects, we never did anything wrong,’ says Japanese Muslim, Mohammed Fujita Matt Payton Wednesday 29 June 2016 Source: Independent Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld the government’s […]
There used to be a genuine if imperfect mosaic of tolerance in the Islamic world, according to Islamic scholar Tarif Khalidi Robert Fisk @indyvoices Isis is the ‘most virulent and violent form’ of the hijacking of Islamic authority, according to Tarif Khalidi Getty Images The Near East School of Theology […]
Source: BBC Police in India are investigating claims by two climbers who say they are the country’s first couple to conquer the world’s highest peak Mount Everest. Dinesh and Tarakeshwari […]
Source. Arab News. A spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps said the government had decided to launch an armed operation against LeJ at a late night meeting on Wednesday. “Three terrorists belonging to LeJ have been killed in an armed clash with Frontier Corps and intelligence personnel,” said Khan Wasey, […]
Source. Arab News During last week’s launch of the device, Eisa Mohammad Rawas, undersecretary for Umrah affairs at the ministry, said the new device would allow better service provision by […]
Source. BBC Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city’s western outskirts. Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that […]
Jun 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Images of bloodshed, panic and debris at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul have been exchanged by people since the early hours of Wednesday. These, along with eyewitnesses’ accounts of Tuesday evening’s attacks, reportedly by three suicide bombers, were shocking and painful. The perpetrators of the […]