A group of non-Muslim Hamiltonians were invited to experience what Muslims suffer for their religious beliefs by fasting for a day. Fasting is part of Ramadan, the month-long observance which began in Canada June 29 and sees Muslims fast every day from sunrise to sunset. READ MORE…
MUso de cookie Mas Edimburgo: by Angie Castells — I originally wrote and published this article in Spanish. As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a few years, I look back and I know that squeezing our lives into a suitcase and leaving our native Barcelona was the […]
IPSnews: by Azza Suleiman — CAIRO, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Although indicators relating to women have improved over the years, they still remain large differences between men and women in literacy and schooling, the labor force and unemployment, and political participation. In Egypt, as in most other countries, there are […]
Telegraph: “I’m engaged,” she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my flat, being told by my best friend that […]
Telegraph: “I’m engaged,” she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my flat, being told by my best friend that […]
The Express Tribune: by Asad Rahim Khan — It’s not stoning to death. Not exactly, if we’re to follow the police’s line. A woman wasn’t stoned to death in broad daylight, by a mob of blood relations. She was beaten to death with bricks. In a sick society, the means […]
Dawn.com: by Murtaza Haider — We know them as al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban. Their branding may differ, but their misogynist ideologies do not. These so-called Islamists have promoted discrimination against women for centuries. Now, they abduct young women and threaten to kill them. Permitting these militants to […]
theguardian: by Sarfaraz Manzoor — “There are not too many Pakistanis because their children have been brought up with different values – their children would be too ashamed to put their parents in a care home,” says Fareeda, who is from Lahore and has worked as a full-time care officer […]
Insight: by Peter Legge — You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report a few years back that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian – any Canadian. An Australian dentist wrote the following […]
Source: Morocco World News: By this time now we’ve reached the far future. The West is already driven by a wonderful thing called Science- it drew it form the clutch of the church and religion in general and it mostly, after Darwin, abandoned religion in favor of science. I predict […]
Source: Morocco World News: By this time now we’ve reached the far future. The West is already driven by a wonderful thing called Science- it drew it form the clutch of the church and religion in general and it mostly, after Darwin, abandoned religion in favor of science. I predict […]
Your MiddleEast: by Farppq Aftab — WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Earlier this week thousands of British Muslim men that make up the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, the UK’s largest and oldest Muslim youth association, issued a single statement denouncing female genital mutilation (FGM). The statement, published on the website ‘Muslims for Humanity‘, […]
By Abida Ruby for The Muslim Times — The culture and traditions give us a sense of identity or belonging to a specific group, ethnicity, country/nationality, religion etc. These are handed down by one generation to another and are observed with religious zeal in most cultures. In most of the […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page A London court called the church’s leader to account for “false” doctrines—the latest in a […]
Islam spread gradually in Indonesia from 12th century onwards, and especially during the 14th and 15th century. The advent of Islam did not lead to the introduction of a new […]
Source: Qanatara.de At the invitation of Federal President Joachim Gauck, several thousand citizens met at Berlin’s Schloss Bellevue to exchange views at the “place of encounters”. Fabian Pianka depicts the current mood prevailing in Germany with regard to immigrants, how art can help in conflict situations, and the state of […]
Source: ET Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram is engaged to Melbourne woman Shaniera Thompson, after proposing to the 30-year-old ‘on his knee and asking her to marry him’, according to the Herald Sun. The former star cricketer, 47, proposed to Thompson, a former public relations consultant from Brighton who has […]
theguardian: by Abigail Haworth. When her widowed mother remarried, Parvin Rema, then 13, was part of the deal – one of several such arrangements in Bangladesh. Abigail Haworth talks to mothers and daughters about a particularly knotty relationship As a child in rural Bangladesh, Orola Dalbot, 30, enjoyed growing up around […]
Indonesia has thousands of Museums and cultural heritage sites. Following is only a partial list taken from the Wikipedia: North Jakarta and Thousand Islands Maritime Museum Onrust Archaeology Park […]
Source: Indian Express. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to maintain secularism as Bangladesh’s state policy, amid countrywide celebrations Sunday to mark the Bengali New Year, seen by right-wing Islamists as […]