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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=560&height=419&playList=518483034 Source: Huffington Post Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners penned an open letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to release a U.S. Senate report on the CIA’s use […]