Movie: Appealing to God, a Disoriented Space Alien Hopes There’s Help Out There
Source: New York Times By Rachel Saltz Dec. 19, 2014 No religions were harmed in the making of this film. That’s the gist of a title card that runs before […]
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 […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community GA takes part in the 15th Atlanta Ecumenical Thanksgiving Celebration
Source: patch.com | By Linda McMillian ALPHARETTA, MILTON, ROSWELL, Ga.— Georgia representatives from twenty different world religions took part in the 15th Atlanta Ecumenical Thanksgiving Celebration to promote religious harmony, world peace and charity. The theme for this year’s gathering was “Are We Our Brother’s Keepers?” Speakers representing Christianity, Islam, […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association joined forces with MK Rotary club & Dons SET to plant 4,000 bulbs at Milton Keynes
Source: miltonkeynes.co.uk A group of young Muslims from MK helped to plant more than 4,000 crocus bulbs outside Stadium:MK. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) joined forces with MK Rotary club and MK Dons SET to plant the bulbs, which will all sport purple flowers, as a symbol […]
A Muslim’s response to blasphemous acts
29th November, 2019 alhakam.org Islamophobia and religious intolerance has been on the rise for some time now. The proliferation of hateful acts against Muslims in the West is quite shocking because it is the very Western nations that stand out for their high moral and ethical standards. These countries […]
MI: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community joins hand to help flood victims in Majuro
Source: rnz.co.nz Over 200 evacuate as ocean swells flood Majuro Atoll By Giff Johnson About 200 people evacuated their homes in the capital of the Marshall Islands on Wednesday after big waves caused ocean inundation around the low-lying atoll. The waves combined with an otherwise unremarkable high tide on Wednesday, […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Lloydminster host their first Friendship Basketball Tournament
Source: meridiansource.ca It wasn’t as much about winning or losing as it was building bridges. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Lloydminster hosted their first Friendship Basketball Tournament at E.S. Laird Middle School last Friday night as they played host to the squad from Thunderchild First Nation. The invitation for a friendly […]
Israel: Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Kababir discusses Improving Interfaith Dialogue with Vaughan Mayor
Source: newswire.ca TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 30, 2019 /CNW/ – “As we look toward the immediate days, weeks and months ahead, I am committed to building on the success of the City of Vaughan’s 2019 trade mission to Israel,” said Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua. The delegation also visited the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy […]
Evolution: The elephant in the room, for both Christianity and Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times An 11-ton African elephant has graced the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Rotunda since 1959. Sometimes called the […]
Islam Does Not Inhibit Science
By T. O. Shanavas, author of the 2002.11.17 Metanexus: Views column Inshah Allah (Allah So Willing)-The Metaphysics of the Future, is a pediatrician in Adrian, Michigan. He serves as the […]
Turkish envoy summoned as anger erupts over Syrian offensive, terror claims
Arab News Sunday . December 01, 2019 French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AFP/File) Turkish envoy […]
Science + religion: The science-versus-religion opposition is a barrier to thought. Each one is a gift, rather than a threat, to the other
Courtesy: Bilal Aslam, Germany Source: Aeon By Tom McLeish, who is a professor of natural philosophy in the Department of Physics at the University of York in the UK. He […]
Australia: ACT’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has placed a development application for a mosque in Narrabundah
Lucy Bladen After a decade-long search, Canberra’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community is a step closer to having their own purpose-built mosque, with a development application lodged for a site in Narrabundah. […]
Why does Islam allow polygamy?
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 […]
Israel could halt intelligence cooperation with UK if Jeremy Corbyn wins election, Benjamin Netanyahu suggests
Source: Telegraph Raf Sanchez, middle east correspondent Dominic Nicholls, defence and security correspondent Harry Yorke, political correspondent Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested Israel may halt its intelligence cooperation with the UK if Jeremy Corbyn […]
Delegates fail to agree agenda for Syria constitution talks
Nov 29, 2019 – swissinfo.ch The second week-long round of talks in Geneva on Syria’s constitution ended on Friday with the Syrian government and opposition co-chairs unable to reach consensus […]
Pakistani man aims to bring shade to Iraq’s Arbaeen pilgrims
Nov 29, 2019 Bags of plants with weight and ordinal numbers written on them are seen before being transported for planting along the pilgrimage route between Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim holy […]
German Catholic Church Debates Sexuality, Celibacy and Women’s Roles
With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of […]
London Bridge: Man shot dead by police after several stabbed
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC A number of people have been stabbed and a […]
Prof. John Makdisi traces the Islamic Origins of the Common Law
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 […]