Commandment – Hast thou not seen those who were forbiddento holdsecret counsels and again return to what they were forbidden, and confer secretly for sin and transgression and disobedience to the Messenger? [58:9] Hast thou not seen those who were forbidden to hold secret counsels and again return to what they were forbidden, […]
Jordan is closest to Palestinian cause — PM By JT – Nov 05,2015 – Last updated at Nov 05,2015 JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour meets with Knesset member Ahmad Tibi on Thursday (Petra photo) AMMAN — Jordan is the closest to the Palestinian cause, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour reiterated […]
Source: New York Times By Sylvie Kauffmann The Indian organizers of two concerts by Ghulam Ali, a veteran Pakistani singer, did not want to take chances. They had received local […]
By Reuters – Nov 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants wait to travel by dinghy to the Greek island of Chios, from the Turkish coast near Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, on Wednesday […]
The Guardian view on Ahmed Chalabi: mission incredible Editorial Could one man’s shameless inventions really have triggered the invasion of Iraq? Ahmed Chalabi – ‘an adventurer of astonishing energy and chutzpah’ – in 1998. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Shutterstock Thursday 5 November 2015 Comments 62 The death of Ahmed Chalabi is […]
by Marc H. Ellis – mondoweiss This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. On the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Isabel Kershner of the New York Times writes that […]
By Susanne Koelbl Andrew Quilty/DER SPIEGEL As the situation in Afghanistan becomes ever more chaotic, an increasing number of Afghans are heading towards Europe. But as one family’s story shows, the trip often ends in tragedy. Redwan Eharai’s journey ends where it began: in Afghanistan, in the city of Herat. […]
RT: A court in the Russian Far East has canceled the verdict that recognized an Islamic book with abstracts from the Koran as ‘extremist material’, which caused outrage from the […]
628. Commandment – Ask thou forgiveness for them (Hypocrite), or ask thou not forgiveness for them; even if thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will never forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger. And Allah guides not the perfidious people [9:80] Ask thou […]
Source: The Guardian A video has emerged of what appears to be a young Afghan woman, married against her will, stoned to death for trying to elope with another man. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A good place for the non-Muslims to start learning about the Holy Prophet Muhammad is a […]
Source: New York Times JERUSALEM — After more than a week of local and international condemnation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel issued a statement on Friday retracting his accusation […]
Source: BBC Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a critical parliamentary election, regaining the majority it lost in June. With almost all ballots counted, the state-run Anadolu […]
Guardian: Pakistan’s supreme court has called on the country’s politicians to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment and even execution under controversial blasphemy laws have not been falsely charged, often […]
RT Six Russian women in a sealed room and it may get hot – no this isn’t a scene from a movie, but a scientific experiment dubbed ‘Luna-2015’. For eight whole days these female scientists will learn how to survive in conditions imitating flight to the moon. The purpose of […]
dw.com 2015 DW.COM, Deutsche Welle 1 day ago It’s clear where Germany’s foreign minister is going – at least geographically. First up is Tehran, then Riyadh. Far less clear is where the talks of the upcoming days will go politically. Several scenarios are possible – and the general direction will […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as […]
Source: Middle East Eye Nafeez Ahmed Thursday 8 October 2015 14:28 UTC The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that […]
SHAYKH MUHAMMAD SALIH AL-UTHAIMEEN Published — Friday 16 October 2015 Last update 15 October 2015 10:33 pm This month marks the beginning of a new Islamic year, which was initiated after the Hijrah, or emigration, of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and which marked the formation of the first […]
Oct 15,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI There is something terribly inaccurate in discussing the latest upsurge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians as another upsurge in violence. How many times have we heard that phrase in the last 85 years, since the early 1930s, which marked the start […]