A delegation of Northern Ireland’s Muslim leaders has accepted an apology from Peter Robinson over comments he made about followers of the religion. The first minister had told the Irish News on Wednesday he would not trust Muslims involved in violence or devotees of Sharia law. But he said he would “trust […]
Apostasy is not just something that scandalises people in far off lands. Harriet Alexander hears the story of a British woman whose life was turned upside down when she left Islam – echoing the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, who awaits a death sentence in Sudan for the same “crime” If […]
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Peter Robinson, has come under intense scrutiny for defending a pastor who described Islam as “satanic” and “heathen” Pastor James McConnell, an evangelical Protestant preacher, delivered an incendiary sermon earlier this month where he claimed “Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell” and compared Muslims to […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:108) The Book is by Qasim Rashid B.Sc. JD The Review is by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Book Review: EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere Book by […]
A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for ‘apostasy’ after marrying a Christian man has given birth in prison. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim gave birth to a girl in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the hospital wing of a prison in Omdurman, Bloomberg has reported. The 27-year-old doctor, whose father was […]
Source: Dutch News The international press is concentrating its coverage of the Dutch EU elections on the loss sustained by Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV, the FD reports. The British Daily Telegraph […]
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy, A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the Christians and the Muslims closer and Karen […]
Source: PolicyMic By Laila Alawa: Laila Alawa is a Muslim feminist, writer and cultural critic who has been published at The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Patheos, The Islamic Monthly, and serves […]
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid: He is an attorney, author, and national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. His upcoming book,EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere, is due […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Copts are the native Christians of Egypt. Christianity was the religion of the vast majority from 400–800 A.D. and the […]
theguardian: by Nesrine Malik — Halal meat is on every menu; sharia law is taking over; the niqab is undermining the nation. Ever noticed how often the same old stories keep appearing about Muslims in Britain? Here’s the truth about these and other media myths In Britain, there is now […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — In an interview with Reason magazine, this became clear when the interviewer asked if by “defeating Islam” Hirsi Ali meant, “defeating radical Islam?” She replied: “No. Islam, period.” When the reporter asked her to further elaborate what she meant by “defeat Islam” she replied: “I […]
Huff Post: by Dr. Faheem Younus: Muslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist On May 21, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York is scheduled to release “The Rise of Al Qaeda,” […]
theguardian: by Seumas Milne — In Britain, the campaign against Islamist “extremism” is once again in full flow. In fact, it is open season on the Muslim community. For the past few weeks reports have multiplied about an alleged “Islamic plot”, code-named Operation Trojan Horse, to take control of 25 […]
San Diego Free Press: by C. J. Werleman — Chris Hedges, who not only spent a decade as a New York Times correspondent in the Middle East, but was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of global terrorism, writes, “The dehumanization of Muslims in U.S. social culture and the […]
Source: The Daily Caller By Qasim Rashid: Spokesperson, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA Imagine if you picked up your morning paper and the news story read “Judaism’s inadvertent effects on adherents.” Imagine if article’s non-Jewish author wrote, “The Torah strictly bans the consumption of pork, leading to the virtual disappearance of domesticated pigs […]
The Muslim Time’s Editor’s comment: Every argument against false advertisement, could also be an argument against hate speech or Islamophobia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia False advertising or deceptive advertising is the use […]
Source: The Huffington Post David Cameron has condemned an “appalling” campaign against plans to build a mosque in his rural Oxfordshire constituency. The Prime Minister, who is the Conservative MP […]
Source: The Huffington Post David Cameron has condemned an “appalling” campaign against plans to build a mosque in his rural Oxfordshire constituency. The Prime Minister, who is the Conservative MP […]
We learnt that any time you read a quote that sounded violent or sexist, people guessed it was from the Koran. Most of those quotes were from the Bible. NY […]