Dawn: NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist premier Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a government minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has caused uproar in parliament. India’s upper house has been paralysed by opposition protests since Niranjan Jyoti told a crowd at a campaign rally on […]
IBN SINA ABU ‘ALI AL-HUSAYN (980-1037) Ibn Sina (Avicenna) is one of the foremost philosophers in the Medieval Hellenistic Islamic tradition that also includes al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd His philosophical […]
Source: CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — New elections will likely be held on March 17, the speaker of Israel’s parliament said Wednesday, a day after the Prime Minister sacked two senior members of his coalition Cabinet for criticizing government policy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also called for Parliament to be dissolved, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If anyone was not conviced completely about the paramount need for Separation of Mosque-Church and State, […]
Genesis of the Jamaat By Tahir Ali, November 30, 2014 Does Munawwar Hasan know the implications of his views? Addressing last week’s Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) annual gathering in Lahore, former JI Ameer Munawwar Hasan said that it was beyond the system based on elections to […]
Junaid Jamshaid, Islamic preacher accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Latest uproar targets prominent former rock star’s comments about one of Muhammad’s wives A sign at a rally in Karachi on Monday denounces prominent Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed for making allegedly blasphemous remarks. ucanews.com reporter, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2, 2014 Hundreds of […]
Dawn: “I assure you all that I am hurt but not out. I am shocked, but more determined. I felt injured, but stronger than ever,” said Indian television personality and actor Gauhar Khan, who was recently slapped by an audience member while hosting a television show, in a statement she […]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 Perspective: Wahhabism to ISIS – how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism By Karen Armstrong ________________________________________ Although IS is certainly an Islamic movement, it is neither typical nor mired in the distant past, because its roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam […]
AMMAN — Minister of Interior Hussein Majali emphasised at a meeting with Japan’s Ambassador to Jordan Shunichi Sakurai on Monday that Jordan and Japan are bound by strategic and distinguished relations that should be built on in the best interests of the two countries, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. […]
Wednesday, 3 December 2014 Chris Doyle Two brothers faced each other in wheelchairs. Only by sheer accident of fate did these two Syrian refugees find themselves reunited in a small center in central Amman. Every refugee there had a story, each one enough to scar for a lifetime. Many at […]
We love the wives of our favourite monsters. And the rumours which surround them. Fresh from spitting out our hatred of Madame Asma al-Assad and making fun of the late […]
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: An Indian student who travelled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group has returned home disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports. Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears […]
Source: Dawn Into this contentious mix comes a new study entitled Measuring Constitutional Islamisation: The Islamic Constitutions Index. Developed by University of Chicago scholar Dawood Ahmad and Moamen Gouda, a professor of Middle East economics at Hankuk University, the study attempts to create the first empirical measure for the relative […]
Source: Dawn KARACHI: A blasphemy case was registered on Tuesday against singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed on the directives of a district and sessions court for one of his televised sermons that is thought to contain blasphemous remarks about a wife of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). SSP-City Sheeraz Nazeer said […]
Source: opendemocracy.net Indonesia’s rising religious intolerance stems from a political pact… The new president, Joko Widodo, must stop the violence before it’s too late. Bahasa Indonesia In Indonesia, religious intolerance on the […]
ET: LAHORE: Pakistan’s human rights record might be contentious on several levels but in March last year, at its Universal Periodic Review with the Human Rights Council, Pakistan was lauded for its “commitment” to defending human rights. It had accepted 126 proposals put forward by member countries, rejected seven and claimed […]
The two sisters in Rohtak on Monday. ( Source: Express photo by : Gajendra Yadav) Written by Sumegha Gulati | Kharkhauda | Posted: December 2, 2014 4:13 am | Updated: December 2, 2014 10:57 am As a TV reporter — the seventh since morning — approached the Rohtak sisters for […]
By Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V (aba) Source: THE REVIEW OF RELIGION, October, 2014 Translated by Amer Safir After reciting Tashhahud, Ta’awwuz, and Surah-Al Fatihah, the Worldwide […]
One of the more remarkable documents found in the Osama bin Laden compound included a letter to the Islamic State group of Iraq and Syria cautioning Abu Musab al-Zarqawi over his group’s extreme violence. The insurgency in Fallujah and Tal Afar had alarmed the al-Qaida leadership in Pakistan as to […]
Saibal Dasgupta,TNN | Dec 1, 2014, 09.45 PM IST BEIJING: The restive Xinjiang region in western China has banned prayer meetings and other religious practices in government buildings, schools and business offices. It has also imposed steep fines on the use of mobile phones and Internet to disseminate messages that […]