Wary of Modern Society, Some Christians Choose a Life Apart
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett | Photographs by Max Whittaker/Prime for The Wall Street Journal When the first few monks arrived in Hulbert, Okla., in 1999, there […]
Is more school prayer answer to social ills?
Source: IndyStar By Robert King The pastors came before the politicians Monday to ask for help with a wide variety of societal ill: poverty and drug use, suicide and school […]
Malcolm X was Murdered This Day in 1965 – He Suggests Cure To Racism In a Newly Discovered Handwritten Letter
Source: Huffington Post By Kimberley Richards; Trends Writer, The Huffington Post Malcolm X Suggests Cure To Racism In Newly-Discovered Handwritten Letter A recently-discovered letter reportedly handwritten by Malcolm X in […]
Lack Of Education Leads To Lost Dreams And Low Income For Many Jehovah’s Witnesses
Source: NPR By LUKE VANDER PLOEG Growing up on Long Island, Zachary Linderer was obsessed with science. He grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, and like many others in the faith, he […]
President Trump’s Foreign Policy Failures Are Alarming Europe
Source: Time James Stavridis / Munich Feb 20, 2017 Admiral Stavridis was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and is Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy […]
How to Build a Healthy Meal That Actually Keeps You Full
Source: Time Cynthia Sass / Health.com Dec 05, 2016 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Do you ever eat a healthy lunch only to find yourself starving by 3 […]
“The True Islamic Jihad” – Address Delivered by Khalifa of Islam Hazrath Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba)
Source: https://www.alislam.org/library/articles/true-islamic-jihad/ c Address Delivered by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V(at) At Khilafat Centenary Celebration Reception and Dinner Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, Virginia USA June 23, 2008 (Transcribed by Ruqayya Rehmatullah, daughter of Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah) All distinguished guests present here, Assalamo Alaikum Wa Barakatohu, peace and blessings of Allah be upon […]
Terrorism and Jihad in Islam
Source: https://www.alislam.org/library/jihad/ Terrorism and Jihad in Islam “As far as Islam is concerned, it categorically rejects and condemns every form of terrorism. It does not provide any cover or justification for any act of violence, be it committed by an individual, a group or a government….. I most strongly condemn all […]
An American Ahmadi Muslim On The Executive Order Banning Muslims
Source: http://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/american-muslim-executive-order-banning-muslims 20 FEB 2017 POSTED BY SHEHLA AHMAD, AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY President Donald Trump signing one of many executive orders in his first couple weeks in office. FEATURED CONTRIBUTOR SHEHLA AHMAD SAYS THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WHICH NEED TO BE EXAMINED. Should we close our doors […]
India: Celebrating Musleh Ma’ood Day the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Shimoga Distributed Fruits & Exam Kits to “Taranga School for Deaf & Dumb”
INDIA Feb 20 : The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Shimoga on eve of Musleh Mo’ud Day Distributed Fruits & Exam Kit for Specially able children of “Taranga School for Deaf & Dumb” Shimoga, Karnataka. Taranga School for deaf & Dumb , Started with a single child providing physiotherapy with handful of […]
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
By MEGAN TWOHEY and SCOTT SHANEFEB. 19, 2017 President Trump on his way to Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Although he has expressed hope that the United States and Russia can work together, it is unclear if the White House will take a privately submitted peace proposal for Ukraine seriously. CreditAl […]
Reclaiming Tradition: Islamic Law in a Modern World
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We want secularism in every country of the world. The article below is very interesting and highlights the constant tug in the Muslim countries towards Shariah Law. We however have a large collection to promote secularism from different angles, social, judicial, religious, cultural and political. […]
Is UN secretary-general the most difficult job in the world?
Fahad Nazer | Published — Monday 20 February 2017 Some American historians have long maintained that being US president is the most demanding position in the world. Overseeing the world’s biggest economy and military is an enormous undertaking. The officeholder’s decisions impact the lives of over 330 million Americans and […]
Suicide bombers in Pakistan kill five in attack on court
Reuters International FEB 21, 2017 – Hospital workers transport a man injured in the Charsadda blast to the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (reuters_tickers) By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and […]
Candidate vying to lead Indonesian capital denies pandering to Islamists
Reuters International FEB 21, 2017 – Former education minister and Jakarta governor candidate Anies Baswedan speaks during an interview at his home in Jakarta, Indonesia February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Fatima El-Kareem (reuters_tickers) By Eveline Danubrata JAKARTA (Reuters) – A former education minister in Muslim-majority Indonesia facing a run-off vote against […]
People-smugglers caught driving migrants across border
ITALY TO SWITZERLAND FEB 20, 2017 Increased enforcement by the Swiss authorities led to a growth in migrant population in Como (Keystone) Four Ghanaian nationals smuggling migrants from Italy to Switzerland for a fee have been apprehended. They are accused of having illegally transported around 200 migrants across the border […]
Trump administration ‘had a secret plan to lift Russian sanctions’ and cede Ukraine territory to Moscow
Senior Trump aides met with an opposition politician from Ukraine in New York Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S Helderman Washington DC President Trump’s personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for […]
Victory over Isis in Mosul could mean defeat in Syria’s Deir Ezzor 250 miles west
While US Defence Secretary James Mattis heads to Baghdad to appease Iraqis, Donald Trump merely wants his ‘war news story’, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices “The re-conquest of western Mosul begins.” Or so several headlines in the Arab press have announced. And it’s true that the Iraqi […]
Steve Bannon Wants To Start World War III
The Nation: what at does Stephen Bannon really believe? Because he hasn’t spoken much in public since becoming, as Time magazine puts it, “the Second Most Powerful Man in the World”—he’s the president’s influential chief strategist and now a member of the National Security Council’s principals committee—analysts have focused in […]
Merkel: ‘Islam is not the source of terrorism’
Aljazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Islam is not the source of “terrorism” and that cooperating with predominantly Muslim states in the fight against it is vital. Merkel, who […]