Source: Indonesia Expat A seminar promoting polygamy in Indonesia is to go ahead, despite the event’s registration form being pulled offline following complaints by women’s rights activists. If you’re weary […]
By Wee Kek Koon Taking concubines was common in China, Hong Kong and Singapore until the mid-20th century. The children of principal and minor wives had a different status By […]
By Harmeet Kaur (CNN) A law effectively decriminalizing bigamy, when two people marry while at least one of them is already legally married, is now in effect in Utah. For […]
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court […]
President Alvi outlines plan agreed with ulema on congregational prayers during Ramazan Source: Dawn By Javed Hussain President Arif Alvi on Saturday announced that congregational and Taraweeh prayers would be […]
Half of Americans say Bible should influence U.S. laws, including 28% who favor it over the will of the people Source: Pew Research Center The U.S. Constitution does not mention […]
Source: WSJ By Ian Lovett Political and legal battles center on tension between the right to worship and protecting public health; ‘We’re subordinating God to a “nonessential” part of our […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: What is common between the fundamentalists of all the Abrahamic and other faiths is denial of evidence and scientific observations and an insistence on […]
Source: Al Hakam By Anees Ahmad Nadeem, Missionary in-charge, Japan With all continents now within its pale, the coronavirus has turned into a pandemic. For lack of medical facilities in […]
Source: Swiss Info By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities struggled to limit congregational prayers on Friday with devout Muslims defying government orders to stay home, threatening efforts to […]
Source: Swiss Info By Ali Sawafta and Ammar Awad JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock will shut their doors until further notice, religious authorities said […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: Islam should also be about just society and absolute justice, rather than an obsession with whether Fajr Salat has two, four or six rakats. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If you are a Muslim and are reading this article, you were probably surprised or even […]
Source: BBC A court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce. The High Court ruled […]
Source: The Sun The notion that “African men are polygamous in nature” is an excuse often used to justify the infidelity of menfolk in marriage in African societies. That […]
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday, North of England correspondent Report says law fails to prevent supervising adults from having sex with 16- and 17-year-olds A cross-party group of MPs […]
Dr. Robert Dickson Crane, is the former adviser to the late President of the United States Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the United States National […]
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 […]
By Farhan Iqbal, Imam Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Canada Marriage is a sacred institution in Islam with very important objectives. In most cases, the objective is achieved through monogamy. However, in […]
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 […]
