THE ISLAMIC JESUS How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims By Mustafa Akyol 275 pp. St Martin’s Press. $26.99. How did a Jewish preacher who became the Christian Messiah also become one of the most admired figures in the Quran? Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish journalist […]
AP | Updated: Mar 8, 2017, 10.25 AM IST 134COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTS The Nike Pro Hijab has been in development for a year. Figure skater Zahra Lari was among those who tested it. FIBA has come under fire for banning headscarves during international competition. Figure skater Zahra Lari wears Nike’s new hijab for […]
Source: The Local By Catherine Edwards The northern region of Liguria on Tuesday announced plans to ban the Islamic face veil from hospitals and other public institutions, in a bid […]
Source: New Age Islam By T.O. Shanavas 17 November 2016 Sharia is central to Islamic faith. It is the Divine Law of Guidance for personal and public behaviour of Muslims, and justice to humanity. Justice is one word in Islam that wraps balance, harmony, fairness, mercy and equity together for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kacem El Ghazzali Writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council Following the most recent terrorist attacks in Allah’s name in Brussels and elsewhere, the […]
Source: Washington Post By Petula Dvorak Columnist March 6 The mosque in a squat, brick industrial park in Northern Virginia was bustling Saturday morning.Women in springtime-colored hijab walked through the […]
Source : NJ.com By Corey McDonald | The Jersey Journal Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the proposal failed to pass despite the Zoning Board voting 4-3 in […]
Source: The New York Times By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN Photo A restaurant on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, in an area known as Little Morocco was under surveillance […]
Source: Miami Herald BY KRISTEN M. CLARK Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Students and teachers in Florida’s public schools would more explicitly have the right to say the Lord’s Prayer, pray […]
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam. This is an ongoing, evolving diagram which we hope to add to. So please send us your ideas & corrections. Thanks to Imran Ali, Andrzej Mendel, Farshad Tami, Sajjad for corrections. […]
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The two Muslim members of Congress swiftly blasted President Donald Trump’s new version of the travel ban as still targeting Muslim-majority countries — […]
Source: BBC By Vivien Cumming, Dan John and Adam Proctor 6 March 2017 In the frozen world of Iceland, climate change is having a dramatic effect. It is melting the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Kacem El Ghazzali, writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council, wrote in an article […]
Source: Huffinton Post In the first episode, Aslan eats cooked human tissue with members of a fringe Hindu sect. By Antonia Blumberg, Reporter, The Huffington Post A number of Hindu leaders and […]
November 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) In this ground breaking address, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, expounds how, more than a millennium before the secular world, Islam first definitively established and safeguarded the rights of women 1400 years ago, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the different […]
By Celia Luterbacher MAR 7, 2017 – It’s not yet clear whether, with the rise of artificial intelligence, workforce automation will lead to an overall rise or drop in human job creation. If death and taxes are the only two things that a person can count on, should the latter […]
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif If polls are to be trusted — especially after missing their target in the US presidential elections and the Brexit vote last year — the party of the most controversial politician in the Netherlands is projected to win most seats in the […]
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told a parliamentary committee that the US had warned that annexing the West Bank would spark an “immediate crisis” with the US administration. The Israeli minister made his statements before leaving for the US for talks with […]
Julian Assange has claimed the documents are the biggest intelligence release ever Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls “Year Zero”and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever. The massive set of documents – over 8,000 pages in all – include […]