Chador in, hijab out: Iran VP’s wardrobe draws criticism
Source: Associated Press By AMIR VAHDAT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just a couple of weeks into her appointment, the new Iranian vice president’s decision to abandon her fashion style for […]
Indian court jails self-styled ‘godman’ for 20 years, security tight
Source: Reuters BY Adnan Abidi ROHTAK, India (Reuters) – An Indian judge sentenced a self-styled “godman”, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last […]
Iran Out to Remake Mideast With Arab Enforcer: Hezbollah
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — For three decades, Hezbollah maintained a singular focus as a Lebanese military group fighting Israel. It built a network of bunkers and […]
Finding a life partner is hard enough. For those of the Druze faith, their future depends on it
Source: Los Angeles Times By Abby Sewell Reem Kaedbey was never very religious. She’s not even sure there is a God. But when it came to marriage, she never had […]
The Two Americans
Source: The New York Times Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas. By SABRINA TAVERNISE Photographs by ETHAN TATE for The New York Times AUGUST […]
Hajj and Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times How many stones do you have to use to hit Satan during Hajj? Does Satan actually exist and […]
Islam proclaims that all people are born equal
On Saturday 26 August 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed an audience of around 800 dignitaries and guests on the second day of the 42nd Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany. At […]
Hajj: Inside Mecca Documentary by National Geographic
Hajj 2018 began in the evening of Sunday, August 19 and ends in the evening of Friday, August 24. It should be a time to meditate on the universal brotherhood […]
Non-pork meals must be available for school lunch, rules French court
Guardian: A French court has ruled that schools should provide an alternative to pork school lunches in the interest of Muslim and Jewish children who do not eat the meat. Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France Read more The decision came after a rightwing local authority stopped […]
India guru rape: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh jailed for 20 years
Source: BBC News A controversial Indian guru convicted of rape on Friday has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Indian media reported that Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s followers set a vehicle […]
What we know about Uber’s next CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Source: Yahoo News BY JP Mangalindan After two months of infighting, Uber’s board offered Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi the Uber chief executive role — a role Khosrowshahi accepted just hours later, a source […]
TEDGlobal: The computer that can smell explosives
Source: BBC News By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter, TEDGlobal Tanzania Image copyrightTEDGLOBALImage captionOshi Agabi envisages airports that will need no visible security system allowing people to just walk on to […]
German killer nurse Niels H probed over 84 more murders
Source: BBC News A nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two patients in northern Germany is now a suspect in at least 84 other murder cases, police say. The […]
Catastrophic Floods Threaten Millions After Hurricane Harvey Drenches Houston
Source: Huffington Post Over 25 inches of rain fell on some parts of Southeast Texas. By Roque Planas, Alana Horowitz Satlin, David Lohr, Eline Gordts, Nick Baumann Harvey’s center is […]
President Trump Has Taken a Key Step to Implement His Transgender Military Ban
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller Aug 25, 2017 President Donald Trump on Friday formally ordered the Department of Defense to reverse a 2016 order allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in […]
Storm Harvey: 1,000 rescued as Houston hit by ‘catastrophic floods’
Source: BBC News More than 1,000 people have been rescued in flooded parts of Houston, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to batter Texas with heavy rains. There is a “flash […]
HATE, HOPE AND SWIMMING LESSONS
Source: Time BY ROBIN SHULMAN | PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER—VII FOR TIME Just over a year ago, Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband and five children landed at the Des Moines airport and […]
Trump Cybersecurity Advisors Resign, Citing His ‘Insufficient Attention’ to Threats
Source: Time By David Z. Morris A quarter of the members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, whose purview includes national cybersecurity, have resigned. In a group resignation letter, they […]
The future of Islamism: Can political Islam make it in the modern world?
Source: The Economist The auguries are mixed. “DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what […]
SC verdict says sexual orientation part of privacy, LGBT community celebrates
Source: Hindustan Times BY Dhrubo Jyoti Hindustan Times “Sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy. Discrimination against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to […]