SOURCE: PAKISTAN TODAY The Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) has directed its members to submit affidavits declaring their faith on the finality of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by the end of the […]
Donald Trump Is Promising ‘Big Action’ on School Prayer to Rally Evangelical Voters Source: MSN By Katie Reilly President Donald Trump is promising “big action” to promote school prayer, tapping […]
Source: Free Malaysia Today By Robin Augustin and Nicholas Chung PETALING JAYA: The G25 group of former senior civil servants has spoken out against apostasy laws, saying a Muslim’s decision […]
Pakistan forgiveness laws: The price of getting away with murder Source: BBC The murder was so brutal it shocked even the hardened detectives who arrived at the scene on the […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal A new citizenship law undermines what made the country a relative success. Protests against the Indian national government have roiled major cities for weeks. At […]
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES China plans to rewrite all translated “classic religious books” to reflect the socialist values of the Communist Party of China. The order was given during […]
Suggested reading and viewing ‘Shariah Law’ And ‘Checks and Balances,’ Needed in Constitution Video: Trump’s Actions ‘Worse Than Misconduct Of Any Prior President,’ Law Prof Testifies ‘Presidents Are Not Kings’: Judge Orders […]
Source: Daily Sabah BY OLSI JAZEXHI Between Aug. 16 and Aug. 25, I was in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. Invited by the State Council Information Office of […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We can read John Makdisi’s magnum opus by ordering the North Carlina Law Review article from a Library or by […]
Source: Arab weekly By Hassan Abdel Zaher is a Cairo-based contributor to The Arab Weekly. Cairo – Rania Hashem is seen as an enemy to many of Egypt’s married women. […]
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men. Huda Nasrallah, […]
Source: Independent ‘The government is always perfectly happy to relegate minority women to kangaroo courts and faith-based parallel legal systems’ By Maya Oppenheim, @mayaoppenheim Women are being left to go […]
Source: CTV A federation representing 45,000 Quebec teachers is taking the government to court over Bill 21, accusing the province of violating the fundamental rights of teachers across the province. […]
Americans agree that religion’s role in public life is ebbing. But while Republicans largely lament the trend, Democrats are split in their reactions. https://t.co/3KkXu4qaKg pic.twitter.com/bp74faIZlB — Pew Research Fact Tank […]
Source: Al Jazeera Case involving Coptic Christian woman comes as calls for equal inheritance rights reverberate across the Arab world. An Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws […]
Source: Washington Post NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court ruled that a Hindu temple could be built at the site of a razed mosque in a historic verdict on a […]
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad aṣ-Ṣādiq (Arabic: جَعْفَر ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱلصَّادِق; 700 or 702–765 CE), commonly known as Ja’far al-Ṣādiq or simply as-Sadiq (The Truthful), was an 8th-century Muslim scholar and scientist.[5] He is considered as an Imam by Twelver and Isma’ili Shī’ites, and a […]
Source: The Guardian By Henry McDonald Assemblies for All provides secular materials focused on respect and social justice British schools are being offered a programme for morning assemblies that are […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After the top constitutional body on Islamic laws in Pakistan recommended ‘a light beating for women’ sparking […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Does the Quran present a theocratic or a secular state? My short answer is ‘a secular state!’ […]
