US torture report: psychologists should no longer aid military, group says
Epigraph: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated. The two […]
Who is killing the good ones?
Dawn: RECENTLY, civil society activists gathered in several towns to shed their tears for their brutally cut down heroes — Perween Rahman, Rashid Rehman and Sabeen Mahmud prominent among them. Was their wail heard in the halls of power? For years and years, the people of Pakistan have been treated […]
Freddie Gray death: Baltimore Protest to grow as union compares it to ‘lynch mob’
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Freddie Gray death: Baltimore Protest to grow as union compares it to 'lynch mob'
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
This year Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize went to a Hindu Humanitarian Sou. Sindhutai Sapkal
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Epigraph: It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the […]
US Supreme Court to Start Hearing Muslim Hijab and Discrimination Case Today
Epigraph: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” — First Amendment to […]
Washington Post: I used to be a free speech absolutist; Charlie Hebdo changed that
Washington Post: By Andrés Martinez January 26 2015. Andres Martinez is editorial director of Zocalo Public Square, for which he writes the Trade Winds column. He teaches journalism at Arizona […]
HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY ADDRESSES HUMANITY FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Source:pressahmadiyya.com Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that charitable endeavours and serving those in need are a basic part of Islam The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address International Conference of the charity Humanity First on […]
Hindu woman saves 10 Muslims during Bihar clash
Pakistantoday.com —- AZIZPUR- A Hindu woman who saved lives of 10 Muslims in this village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district during the recent clashes in which five people died is being hailed as a hero, officials said. Shail Devi, a frail widow in her early 50s, risking her own life, gave […]
Malian hero in Paris supermarket attack to be given French citizenship
Source: france24.com Lassana Bathily, the Malian Muslim employee who helped save the lives of several customers during last week’s deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, will be awarded French nationality, France’s Interior Bernard Cazeneuve announced Thursday. More……http://www.france24.com/en/20150115-france-malian-hero-lassana-bathily-kosher-supermarket-attack-citizenship/
Luc Besson writes open letter to young Muslims after Charlie Hebdo killings
Source: The Guardian: By Ben Child French film director calls for rejection of extremism and promises to work with Muslim community for a fairer society My brother, if you knew […]
As a Muslim, I’m Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists
Huff Post: by Mehdi Hasan — Does it not bother you to see Barack Obama – who demanded that Yemen keep the anti-drone journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye behind bars, after he was convicted on “terrorism-related charges” in a kangaroo court – jump on the free speech ban wagon? Weren’t you […]
China bans wearing burqa in biggest Muslim city
By Steven Jiang, CNN Story highlights Xinjiang province passes law to ban wearing burqa in public A spate of violent incidents has rocked Xinjiang, long inhabited by the largely Muslim […]
Unmournable Bodies
The New Yorker: by Teju Cole — A northern-Italian miller in the sixteenth century, known as Menocchio, literate but not a member of the literary élite, held a number of unconventional theological beliefs. He believed that the soul died with the body, that the world was created out of a […]
The Day My Faith in America Died
Huff Post: by Paul Brandies Raushenbush — “Do you think the Surgeon General is behind it?” Sean joked with me this morning, “I mean there were cigarettes and cigarillos involved in both so maybe they just really don’t want us to smoke.” Sean’s attempt at humor masked the deep pain he is […]
Dianne Feinstein Says Torture Report Almost Ready For Release After Months Of Delay
Epigraph: O ye who believe! why do you say what you do not do? Most hateful is it in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not […]
Refuting Islamophobia: Demystifying ‘the Other’ by Harris Zafar
Published on Nov 17, 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our global and national history has shown a dangerous human […]
Julien Blanc: petition urges UK to deny visa to controversial US ‘pick-up artist’
theguardian: by Alexandra Topping — Blanc, who is accused of teaching men sexually abusive and racist tricks to attract women, has series of UK tour dates Julien Blanc at one of his seminars. Thousands of people have called on the Home Office to deny a visa to a controversial US […]
Abou Ben Adhem, A Compassionate Man
Abou Ben Adhem BY LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, […]
Watch Canadians Punch Racism In The Face
Huff Post: by Nick Robins-Early — http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=46744042133&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2FehazDpFPEnK.js%3Fversion%3D41%23cb%3Df27a258a18%26domain%3Dwww.huffingtonpost.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Ffbb7307c%26relation%3Dparent.parent&color_scheme=light&font=arial&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014%2F10%2F29%2Fcanada-racism-video_n_6068832.html&layout=box_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=450 There are many recent “social experiment” videos showing average citizens’ candid responses to public injustice — but they rarely end with one of the subjects getting punched squarely in the face. In a new video by 18-year-old York University student Omar Albach, that’s just what happened, as […]