Richard Dawkins Follows Prophet Muhammad’s Teaching on Freedom
Prologue If the Muslim Times’ highlighted articles are boring to you, it may be that you need to read more of them, as was suggested by John Cage, who was […]
Return of Jesus Christ From Celestial Abode – Jesus Versus Finality
Source: Examiner The belief that the last prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), has already come and gone and the assertions that Jesus (as) would descend to earth as a prophet after him […]
How to be Free from Addiction and Sin?
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Prologue There are only 100 Senators in USA Senate, two from each state and they are the elite of […]
Who Will Retell? An Interfaith Miracle
By: Rabbi Rachel Gartner Source: The Huffington Post The Talmud teaches that Hanukkah menorahs should be placed in the window to fulfill the commandment of pirsumei hanes, publicizing the miracle. The Hanukkah miracles of resilience and faith are meant to be shared. Because the miracles we choose retell are the ones […]
Saudi journalist ‘could face death penalty’
Riyadh: The editor of a Saudi Arabian website could be sentenced to death after a judge cited him for apostasy and moved his case to a higher court, the monitoring group Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. Raif Badawi, who started the Free Saudi Liberals website to discuss the role […]
How Obama won and What it means for Islam?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: “Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long.” “The history of the world is none […]
How hate crimes are reported makes a difference
CGNewsService: Robert Amir Berry. By avoiding stereotyping and making sure headlines and quotes do not misrepresent a situation, editors and journalists can help reduce those same stereotypes, and arguably instances of violence as well. New York City – The question of how media can play a role in defusing or […]
A Muslim Convention in a Church? You Better Believe It
Huff Post: Wardah Khalid. Just outside the front doors stood several men holding signs that insulted the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They had planted themselves there several hours prior to the start of the convention and were making it quite clear that they were vehemently opposed to Islam and any Christians […]
Religious extremism sanctifies violence against women
Daily Times: Babar Ayaz. Extremists give religious cover to all anti-women social and cultural values of the tribal and feudal societies and innovation: Ijtihad or Ijma Women rights activists are gearing up the world over to celebrate the ‘One Billion Rising’ of women and men against ‘violence against women’. The […]
Respect for the rights of others
The following is an incident from the life of our beloved Holy Prophet(saw) taken from the Book, The Introduction to the Study of The Holy Quran: The Holy Prophet fell ill. For some days he continued to visit the mosque and lead the prayers. Then he became too weak to do […]
Indian Muslim Women Group Demand Ban On Oral Talaq
Epigraph: “And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’” (Al Quran 81:9-10) Source: By Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN, Times of India MUMBAI: After studying repercussions of one-sided pronouncement of talaq by Muslim men for months, several Muslim women groups have demanded a ban on […]
Death of Jesus in Quran – 5 Evidences
by Nadeem Qureshi (who is NOT a member of the Ahmadiyya Community). an interesting blog: for the full article please click here: ( I invite the readers to join me […]
Another Hate Crime on its way
Extreme anti-Islam posters to cover New York subway stations next week The National Post: Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17. The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, […]
Muslim women face an uphill battle against prejudice to find work
Baroness Warsi may have opted for shalwar khameez for her first meeting of the cabinet in May 2010, but for many Muslim women, the struggle is to downplay ethnic or religious difference in order to find acceptance – and employment. A recent parliamentary report found that Muslim women often feel […]
The power of forgiveness
DR. MUZAMMIL H. SIDDIQI ARABNEWS Friday 7 December 2012 God has granted intellect to human beings. The intellect entails responsibility. The more intellect a person has, the more he/she is […]
Muslim conflicts
Dawn.com: By Munir Akram, former Pakistan ambassador to the UN FROM the desert of the Sahel to the islands of the Pacific, Muslim peoples and states are today afflicted by conflicts and violence of varying dimensions and intensity. The malicious myth propagated by Islam’s adversaries is that Muslims are prone […]
Male Circumcision, From St. Paul to Hillary Clinton
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD In a recent CNN video clip, in the context of the World AIDS Day, it was documented that the Secretary of State, […]
Muslim world’s condition
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
Jordan to remain model of interfaith harmony — King
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday called for spreading the values of tolerance as the foundation of dialogue and understanding among followers of various religions. During a meeting […]