Ben Flanagan | Published — Tuesday 2 May 2017 DUBAI: Most Americans have scant knowledge of the Arab world, with eight in 10 unable to point out the region on a map, a wide-ranging Arab News/YouGov poll has found. The survey of 2,057 people in the US revealed an alarmingly […]
May 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby This week, nearing the end of four years of service as an Obama presidential appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), I felt compelled to issue a public dissent to USCIRF’s 2017 annual report. While the larger part of […]
By Reuters – May 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Algerian city employees install Algerian flags and President’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika poster on the streets ahead of the parliamentary election in Algiers, Algeria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) ALGIERS — In a sports arena festooned with national flags, Algeria’s ruling FLN Party […]
Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Charles Darwin did not make my list of heroes until after I was forty years old. Part […]
How we found out evolution is true: By John van Wyhe The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles to promote guided evolution. John van Wyhe is a historian […]
Source: The New York Times By BENOÎT MORENNE The French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen speaking this month in Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes, France. She has temporarily stepped down as leader of the far-right National Front. CreditKamil Zihnioglu/Associated Press PARIS — The interim leader that Marine Le Pen chose to run […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Shellnutt Hasan Minhaj asked the question himself when he hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night: “Who would have thought, with everything […]
Source: Boston Globe By Lisa Wangsness The shingled Victorian house on Intervale Street has a purple door, a symbol of hope. The Basmala — a phrase recited when reading the […]
Source: Dallas News BY Marc Ramirez Churches must bridge political divides and find not just a common voice but an independent one in the fight for economic and social justice, […]
Source: BBC Police in India say two Muslim men have been lynched by a mob which accused them of trying to steal cows for slaughter. The killings in the north-eastern […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANTHONY CILLUFFO AND D’VERA COHN As demographers convene in Chicago for the Population Association of America’s annual meeting, here is a look at 10 of […]
Source: The Hindu Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour stand-off, police said on Friday. Police raided the house in the northern […]
Source: Time BY Katie Reilly Republican lawmakers are wading into the intensifying debate over free speech on campus, proposing legislation in at least half a dozen states to regulate student protests […]
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan Apr 30, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Sleeping pills are big business: About 1 in 25 adults has taken a prescription sleep medicine […]
Source: CNN By Erin Connelly, The Conversation For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which […]
By: AFP | Cirebon | Published:April 28, 2017 7:50 am http://indianexpress.com/article/world/female-muslim-clerics-in-indonesia-issue-rare-fatwas-4631334/#sthash.g3KAk1BX.dpuf It urged the government to raise the minimum legal age for women to marry to 18 from the current age of 16. File photo of Muslim girls attending a class meeting at the Darul Muttaqien Islamic boarding school in Bogor, Indonesia, in […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA NEW DELHI An Indian bride takes a selfie with her husband during a mass marriage ceremony on the occasion of the Akshaya Tritiya festival Bhopal, […]
Reuters International MAY 1, 2017 – STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish authorities began an investigation into possible arson on Monday after a fire damaged the facade and roof of a Shi’ite […]
MAY 1, 2017 – How many people live in Switzerland and which languages do they speak? How high is the poverty line? Here you’ll find hard facts about the country at a glance. With a populationexternal link of 8,417,700 permanent residents at the end of 2016, Switzerland is the world’s 97th largest […]