BBC Video: Saladin: Who taught Europe the Ethics of War
Source of video / Courtesy: BBC Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is an hour and a half movie or documentary about […]
Geert Wilders revives contest for cartoons that mock Muhammad and the Muslim Times response
Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker reveals his plans despite fears the move could spark attacks SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has revived his plan to hold a contest for […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community member decries 9/11 attacks
Source: fairfaxtimes.com Dear Editor, If we look around we may realize how precious, beautiful and unique each individual life is. The lives of parents change when they know that they are having a baby; first heartbeat, first movement, then birth, and every subsequent milestone is precious. God has created this […]
‘The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin’ Review: A Portrait of a Champion
The legend of Saladin as an ideal Quranic leader who fought back invaders remains a potent symbol in the Islamic world’s public memory. Source: The Wall Street Journal By Christopher […]
The enduring appeal of violent jihad
Source: BBC News By Frank Gardner The Islamic State group (IS) has lost its short-lived caliphate in the Middle East, with hundreds – possibly thousands – of would-be international […]
The Quran And the Bible and the Wars?
Finding Peace Within the Holy Texts Source: NY Times Nov. 17, 2015 By David Brooks It’s easy to think that ISIS is some sort of evil, medieval cancer that somehow […]
Couple Can Reunite in ‘Love Jihad’ Case, India’s Supreme Court Rules
Source: The New York Times By MARIA ABI-HABIB and SUHASINI RAJAPRIL 10, 2018 The Supreme Court ruled that Hadiya, center, had a right to choose her spouse and convert to another religion. CreditSivaram V/Reuters India’s Supreme Court has upheld the right of citizens to choose their spouse and convert to another religion, a landmark […]
Jihadism and far-right fanaticism viewed as responses to the same malaise
Source: The Economist IS IT correct to find parallels between violent white supremacism and neo-Nazism on one hand, and the nihilist fury of ultra-militant Islam on the other? A Franco-American […]
Bangladesh to remove Jihad from madrasa textbooks
Source: Dhaka Tribune BY Manik Miazee The new textbooks of the Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board will not contain any chapters with lessons on Jihad, for the first time in nearly four […]
Jihad: Toulouse boy’s name leads to France dilemma
Source: BBC News Is it acceptable to name your baby “Jihad” in France, which has suffered Europe’s worst Islamist terror attacks in recent years? France’s chief prosecutor now has to […]
Linda Sarsour Said ‘Jihad’ In A Speech And Conservatives Freaked Out
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Conservative news sites are targeting activist Linda Sarsour again, this time for using the word “jihad” in a speech to a mainly Muslim audience. Speaking […]
Islam’s Celestial Women: Muslim Men Die for Them, Muslim Women Envy Them
Source: American Thinker By Raymond Ibrahim Last month, when the battle for Mosul began, Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly promised four extra Houris (supernatural, celestial women designed for sexual purposes) – atop the other 72 promised by the prophet Muhammad – to all jihadis who die (are “martyred”) […]
Silence Muslims, then ask them to stand against ISIL
Source: Aljazeera by Tallha Abdulrazaq Tallha Abdulrazaq is a researcher at the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute. Last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was quoted as saying that religious leaders should “stand up and take responsibility for the actions of those who do things in the name […]
An extremist in the family
Source: BBC Rasheed Benyahia was in a hurry. Like so many young adults going places in Britain today, he needed to get a move on. If Monday 1 June 2015 […]
How This Former Extremist Embraced The Real Meaning Of Jihad
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor A British man who once preached violence in the name of religion is now using his voice to spread peace. Manwar Ali, a former extremist who claims he was involved in radicalizing “thousands” of young Muslims in the 1980s and 1990s, talked about how […]
Defensive War in the Quran: An Address of the Worldwide Head of Ahmadiyya to a Gathering of 25,000 in Canada
The video is mostly in Urdu, the speech of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community starts at minute 50 of the video tape: Suggested Reading […]
Once a Qaeda Recruiter, Now a Voice Against Jihad
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — In the four years that he ran the Revolution Muslim website out of his walk-up apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jesse Morton became one of the most prolific recruiters for Al Qaeda, luring numerous Americans to the group’s violent ideology. The men and women […]
Three Reasons France Became a Target for Jihad
Source: Time By John R. Bowen Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or […]
What the Slaughter of Christians in Lahore Says About the Global Jihad
Source: The Daily Beast By Majid Nawaz We cannot pretend that the extremism driving jihadist terror around the world has nothing to do with Islam. LONDON — At least 72 […]
Thomas Piketty: Social Investment Can Stop Jihad
Source: Time Part of the response to terrorism must be security-based. A strike against Daesh is needed; those who belong to it must be stopped. But we also have to […]