RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 1 December 2015 Israeli commentators, Yaron Friedman, of “Ynet News” and Haviv Rettig Gur, of the “Times of Israel” are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilization and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to […]
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby The roots of our nation’s current descent into madness can be traced back to a series of unresolved catastrophic traumas Americans experienced during the Bush administration. In the short span of eight years, we suffered a collective loss of confidence in American […]
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It is encouraging to see that Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped short of taking military action against Ankara, which could have escalated into a much larger confrontation, a fear expressed by many these past days. To be sure, the punitive measures Moscow is […]
By JT – Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah delivers an address at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday, attended by several world leaders (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday said the war of “our […]
Source: Huffington Post In a recent statement to CNN Arabic, Morocco’s minister of tourism Lahcen Haddad affirmed that he opposes the decriminalization of extramarital relations and that he is open […]
Source: yourhoustonnews.com | By Petrina J. Johnson The recent terrorist attacks in Paris are bringing people from different religions together for united prayer. During a Thanksgiving Interfaith Service on Thursday, Nov. 19, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Houston, victims of the attacks were remembered. The annual Thanksgiving meeting and dinner was sponsored […]
Source: uscirf.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous attack on an Ahmadi […]
Businessinsider.com: A year after his 700-page opus“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” stormed to the top of America’s best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circles. The new […]
Source: Islam for the West By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times An honest study of the causes of the Dark Ages and European renaissance will lead […]
wearing full-body garment in public Photo: Switzerland bans the burqua, imposes £6,500 fine on Muslim women wearing full-body garment in public Pregnant Muslim woman branded ‘terrorist’ on London bus while passengers looked on 27 November 2015 Women in many parts of the Middle East are prohibited from being seen […]
No parliament has the right, no matter how sovereign, to determine the faith of an individual citizen. This is not the job of a parliament. It is God’s job Yasser […]
Source: Crux Three years ago, Harvard University professor Karen L. King showed the world a tiny fragment of ancient Egyptian papyrus whose eight partial lines of Coptic script included one […]
Source: Reuters BANGUI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rebels in Central African Republic have kidnapped, burnt and buried alive “witches” in public ceremonies, exploiting widely held superstitions to control areas in […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The scene is horrifyingly familiar. Islamic State soldiers march a line of prisoners to a riverbank, shoot them one by one and dump their bodies over a […]
Source: Reuters When Daniela Handwerk looked out of her window earlier this month and saw the church across the street being emptied out and turned into a refugee shelter, she […]
Source: Buzz feed news Northern Ireland’s abortion law is “incompatible with human rights”, the High Court in Belfast ruled on Monday, potentially allowing women access to terminations in cases of […]
By M. Imran Hayee, who is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of USA. Source: duluthnewstribune.com Nov. 13, the Islamic […]
Source: keighleyonline.co.uk Tree-mendous Effort as Young Muslims Dig In to Grow Urban Woodlan Keighley Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association endured wind and rain to plant 400 treesYoung Muslims braved the wind […]
theguardian: by Michael Safi — Survey of 600 Muslims finds they are three to five times more likely to experience extreme levels of bigotry compared with other Australians Muslims in Sydney face high levels of racism, yet still believe Islam is compatible with Australian norms Muslims in Sydney are three […]
Source: tns.thenews.com.pk Mob violence after provocative announcements from local mosques on allegations of blasphemy… Sounds familiar? It’s a factory in Jhelum this time Five days after the torching down of the […]