Sentenced to death for blasphemy: Surviving Pakistan’s death row
The story of a man who spent 19 years awaiting execution reveals the power of a false blasphemy claim to destroy a life. Source: Al Jazeera By Asad Hashim After […]
Rumi: The Meeting Point of the East and the West
Epigraph: “Out beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrongdoing, there is a field I will meet you there. It’s the world full of things to talk about.” Rumi Written and […]
How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart
Source: The Guardian For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP is remaking the nation into one where […]
Do Muslims Prefer Camels Over Modern Cars?
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 […]
Xenophobic Terrorist Kills Ten in Germany
Epigraph Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Germany Shooting Is Deadliest Yet in Upsurge of Far-Right AttacksGermany Shooting […]
‘My body, my choice’ – French Muslim women speak out about headscarves
Source: The Local Fr By Ingri Bergo Arguments over Muslim women wearing headscarves surface fairly regularly in France. As the Muslim community again hit the headlines we speak to the […]
Want to know more about Muslims and Islam? We’ve got an email course for you
Source: Pew Research Centre By Alan Cooperman With an estimated population of 1.8 billion, Muslims are the world’s second-largest religious group, after Christians. But our surveys have found that about half of Americans – as well as most Western Europeans – say they know little or nothing about Islam. Pew […]
Macron announces measures against ‘Islamic separatism’
Source: The Connexion French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a series of measures designed to combat “Islamic separatism” in France – including new rules on foreign imams and education. The […]
Appeal Court rules Islamic marriages invalid in UK
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 […]
More than 2,000 former prosecutors and other DOJ officials call on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign
By Laura Jarrett, CNN (CNN) More than 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations have signed a statement posted Sunday calling on Attorney […]
Hospital director dies in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Hong Kong (CNN) The death toll from the novel […]
Every Thing You Wanted to Know about Compilation and Preservation of the Holy Quran
Epigraph: Indeed, We (Allah) Ourself have sent down this Quran, and most surely We will be its Guardian. (Al Quran 15:9/10) New Light on the History of the Quranic Text? […]
This Day in History, on Feb 17, Giordano Bruno Burnt Alive, at the Stake in Rome
Promoted post: Who Has a Greater Claim to Science: Judaism, Christianity or Islam — The Bible or the Quran? Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
Crypto spying affair : How manipulated Swiss tech shaped world politics
By Swiss public television, SRF Feb 12, 2020 – From left to right: Sadat, Carter, Begin sign the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel in March 1979. […]
Over 400 Dalits Converted to Islam
The sudden spate of conversions of Dalits to Islam has been attributed to a wall collapse incident in Mettupalayam, where 17 people lost their lives. By Poornima Murali | CNN-News18 […]
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
Source: The Atlantic David Brooks The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure […]
Years after the fall of Gaddafi, Libya remains in the grip of foreign powers
A new decade has begun, but the country still has the same problems, writes Kim Sengupta Abdul Hakim Belhaj was doing very well. The former rebel commander who British […]
Thirty Plus Quotes from the Poet of Love
Selection of quotes by Mayukh Saha “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, […]
Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of […]
World standing by as children harmed by conflict — charity
African children worst affected, with 170 million living in war zones — report By AFP – Feb 13,2020 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on March 06, 2019, children believed to be from the Yazidi community, who were captured by Daesh group fighters, are pictured after being evacuated from […]