theguardian: by Mark Townsend — Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe visits mosque in support of 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya community following the killing of shopkeeper Asad Shah last month The head of Scotland Yard has warned British Muslims that attacks on a minority Islamic sect will not be tolerated amid concern over the […]
Source: Yahoo News By Stuart Williams Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday urged dozens of Muslim leaders gathered for a summit in Istanbul to end sectarian divisions […]
Source: The Guardian By Saad Hammadi in Dhaka, Aisha Ganiin London and agencies Nazimuddin Samad, whose family live in London, was hacked to death by at least four assailants after […]
Huff post: The horrific suicide bombing at a park in Lahore on Sunday that killed over 70 people, mostly women and children, is one of many assaults by religious hardliners in Pakistan who are striving to remain politically relevant and in the media limelight. Attacks on soft targets like parks […]
Promoted post: Book Review: To overcome the sectarian divide, first we need to learn it Happy Nowruz to all our Iranian readers form the editorial team of the Muslim Times. From […]
Source: The Daily Beast A shady legal organization claims that NASA employees were censored when their worship group mentioned Jesus in a newsletter. Did NASA ban the word “Jesus” as […]
Source: The Economist ONE OF this week’s most arresting news photographs featured Pope Francis in smiling conversation with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who is touring Europe in the hope […]
Source: Huffington Post 1. We’re all poor and powerless – When Muslims line up for prayer, no one is able to distinguish between Sunni and Shia based on their dress […]
Source: Macleans It would be simplistic to say the sectarian outrage over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shia cleric was only religion-driven—and would ignore key history By Brian Bethune Sunni […]
Source: The New York Times WHEN Saudi Arabia executed the Shiite cleric and political dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, the country’s leaders were aware that doing so would upset […]
Suggested reading Urdu Video: Ghamidi Declaring Ahmadis to be Muslims Are Ahmadis Muslims? Let us ask Prophet Muhammad Are Ahmadi Muslims: A Collection of Articles? The Muslim Times has the best collection to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Gary Laderman; Chair of the Department of Religion, Emory University and Editor of Sacred Matters Magazine It’s not easy being chair of a religion department. August is […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The world appears to be a more dangerous place since September 11, 2001, more so than any time […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:107) Reconciling Muslim Fragmentation with Universal Message of Islam Source: The Daily Times: […]
The Muslim Times Editor’s note: I believe Nikkah Mu’tah is more akin to prostitution than a marriage. So even if a sect leadership is allowing it, it does not take our accountability to the All Knowing God. We are all answerable as individuals and not as members of sects. Source: […]
Source: Newsweek By Shawki Allam, The Grand Mufti of Egypt Every Muslim is in utter shock about the senseless, appalling and cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and the […]
Hamza Yusuf (born 1960)[6] is an American Islamic scholar,[3][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and is co-founder of Zaytuna College.[14][15] He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and […]
Suggested Reading: Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran LUBP: We welcome the tolerant and inclusive approach shown by Mualana Arshad Madni, senior Deobandi cleric of India’s Darul-Uloom Deoband […]
Alarabiya: by Hisham Melham — Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance […]
Dawn.com: by Faisal Bari — Ahmadis have been hounded out of jobs; they have been booked for ‘preaching’ their religion; they have been asked to remove Quranic verses from their places of worship; some have been denied burial space in graveyards. A fellow citizen and a friend, a Christian by […]