Pope accepts PM’s invitation to visit Pakistan
Daily Times: LAHORE – Pope Francis has accepted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s invitation to visit Pakistan this year, a media reported said on Thursday. The last pope to have visited […]
Video: Australian converts share their views on Islam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Islam in Australia is a minority religious affiliation. According to the 2011 census, 476,291 people, or 2.2% of the total Australian population, were Muslims.[1] This […]
Huffington Post is tracking Islamophobic incidents across the U.S. throughout 2016
Epigraph: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) The Muslim Times has the most extensive collection to tackle Islamophobia After last year’s terror […]
Video: One Filmmaker’s Mission To Humanize Women Who Wear The Hijab
Huff Post: Faiza Ambah joins HuffPost Live to discuss her critically-acclaimed film, “Mariam.” Her film tells the story of a veiled Muslim teenager who must decide between keeping her hijab, […]
Pakistan hangs Mumtaz Qadri the murderer of Governor Salman Taseer
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:179/180) Source: BBC Pakistan has hanged the […]
50 sacred destinations you need to experience in your lifetime
Kaaba: The very first house of God according to the Holy Quran The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: The Huffington post authors did not include Kaaba, perhaps because Saudi Arabia Government […]
On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Sharia Councils
Source: Princeton Press Book written by John R. Bowen, who is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include A New Anthropology […]
Hollywood needs to end Islamophobic portrayals of Muslims
Islamophobia, ISIS, and Authentic Muslim Narratives: Television’s Potential Role Source: Huffington Post By Cynthia P. Schneider; Cultural Diplomacy Expert; Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands Recently President Obama and Secretary Kerry each called […]
This Day in History in 1922: US Supreme Court defends women’s voting rights
History.com In Washington, D.C., the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for female suffrage, is unanimously declared constitutional by the eight members of the U.S. Supreme Court. The 19th […]
How Monotheism Is the Mother of All Human Progress
Source: Advancing Rational Faith Academy By Ehsan Butt PhD General Human Consensus That Nature Is Bound To Rules Before the modern era no nation or fair-minded individual denied the idea […]
Ted Talk: Dalia Mogahed: What do you think when you look at me?
When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this […]
City of Ottawa to celebrate World Hijab Day on 25th
This Thursday, February 25, 2016, the city of Ottawa will be holding a public event celebrating the hijab, to show solidarity with Muslim women and diffuse Islamophobia. The City for […]
Richard Dawkins Examines Afterlife, But, Fails to Answer the Basic Issue of Consolation
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Belief in life after death is not only restoring order in our present life, by belief in […]
When Someone Tells You Torture Is Justified, Send Them This
Torture Is a Crime Source: Huffington Post By Curt Goering; Executive Director, The Center for Victims of Torture The subject of U.S. policies on torture is back in the news again. With […]
Video: Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life
Viewer discretion is advised for this video, because there is some nudity in it. This thought-provoking series is not about whether God exists or not. It explores more challenging questions […]
Harvard launches free online class to promote religious literacy
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Sales of the Quran skyrocketed in the United States following 9/11. Perhaps it was a search for answers, […]
‘I am you:’ American Muslims on faith — and fear
For our extensive collection to refute Islamophobia, please click here. (CNN) In a time of terrorism, suspicion and doubt have put a sharp focus on American Muslims after violent attacks rocked […]
Denmark Criminalizes Hate Speech against the Muslim Minority?
The Muslim Times has changed the heading of the news in favor of the Muslim minority in Denmark. For our collection of articles on free speech, please click here. Article […]
‘Islam Can’t Be Modernized’ Says World’s ‘Greatest Arabic Poet.’ But, Is it True?
‘Islam Can’t Be Modernized’ Says World’s ‘Greatest Arabic Poet.’ Source: Breitbart The writer regarded as the greatest Arabic language poet alive today has said Islam cannot be modernized. Adunis Asbar, known […]
Study finds Bible angrier, more violent than Quran
By Noha Medhat A startling new study of the Christian and Islamic texts has revealed that violence and anger are more common in the Old and New Testaments than in […]