Why Snowstorms Are Bad for Your Heart
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan Take caution when shoveling yourself out of a fresh snowstorm: A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that days following heavy snowfall […]
Michael Flynn’s Early Departure Shows a Rocky Start for Trump White House
Source: Associated Press Zeke J Miller,Philip Elliott Capping crippling weeks of disclosures about President Trump’s top national security aide, the White House late Monday evening sent Michael Flynn packing and […]
Wars and principles and regulations (according to Islam)
Wars and principles and regulations When the Holy Prophet(sa) engaged in a battle, he used to firmly order that: No woman be killed; No children be killed; The old not be impeded; Nothing be said to the refugees, monks or hermits; No person be set on fire; No animal be […]
Judge grants injunction against Trump travel ban in Virginia
Source: Associated Press By MATTHEW BARAKAT McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A federal judge Monday granted a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing its travel ban in Virginia, adding another judicial ruling to those already in place challenging the ban’s constitutionality. The ruling is significant from a legal standpoint […]
First Muslim Is Elected President Of The College Chaplains Association
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A national organization of university religious leaders elected its first Muslim president last week in a move that could influence college diversity for years. […]
A century in the making, Athens set for first mosque since Ottoman times
Source: Reuters By Karolina Tagaris | ATHENS Athens’s half a million Muslims are set to get their first official mosque in more than a century. The city has not had […]
In France, Some Muslims Seek To ‘Adapt’ Islam To Secular Culture
Source: NPR By ELEANOR BEARDSLEY The carpeted prayer hall at the grand mosque in the French city of Bordeaux is full on a recent Friday afternoon. Behind a sculpted wooden railing […]
SHARIAH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS IN ISLAM
A speech delivered by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad Khalifatul Masih IV at the Inter‑religious Consults, Suriname, on 3rd June 1991 Published by: Islam International Publications Ltd. Islamabad, Sheephatch Lane, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2AQ, […]
Is Saudi Arabia on the cusp of change?
Source: BBC Ask about change in Saudi Arabia. The reply used to be: it will come, in its own way and in its own time, in the conservative kingdom. It […]
Sweden defends officials wearing headscarves in Iran
Source: BBC The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the […]
What Steve Bannon really wants
February 6, 2017 by yalibnan Whatdoes Donald Trump want for America? His supporters don’t know. His party doesn’t know. Even he doesn’t know. If there is a political vision underlying Trumpism, however, the person to ask is not Trump. It’s his éminence grise, Stephen K. Bannon, the chief strategist […]
5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed
NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA 5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Friday, November 25,2016 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: When I arrived in Libya in March 1994 as a middle-ranking diplomat, the country was under UN sanctions related to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. No flights to and from Libya were permitted; we had […]
Flynn: pro-Russia and fixated on Islamic extremism
Paul HANDLEY AFP February 14, 2017 View photos Donald Trump and Michael Flynn speak at a rally in Colorado in October (AFP Photo/) More Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned late Monday over his controversial contacts with Russia, is a former military intelligence chief […]
Israeli ministers endorse noise pollution bill said to ‘mute Muslim call to prayer’
Controversial bill which critics say targets Muslim worshippers is due to be put before members of the Knesset Bethan McKernan Beirut @mck_beth Israeli ministers have endorsed contentious draft legislation known as the “muezzin bill”, which critics say is designed to silence the Muslim call to prayer. Information released by the […]
There’s a reason why not a single Arab dictator has called out Donald Trump so far
If the President toured these Arab dictatorships, he’d feel very much at home. Great security, fantastic police, lots of torture, alternative facts, extremely dodgy elections and massive economic projects which damage the environment but prove absolutely useless Robert Fisk @indyvoices You’d think, given the harsh anti-Muslim Trump administration in Washington, that […]
Exclusive – After Islamic State defeat, broken Iraqi farmers weigh heavy losses
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Parts of a bulldozer are seen at a farm in the town of Basheeqa, Iraq, February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy and Maha El Dahan QARAQOSH, Iraq/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sami Yuhanna was making a decent living as a wheat […]
What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims
Source: New York Times By Mustafa Akyol, who is a contributing opinion writer, is a visiting fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College and the author, most recently, of […]
Jakarta governor election a ‘litmus test’ of Indonesian Islam
Guardian: Millions of Jakarta residents will go to the polls on Wednesday in a vote that is being seen as a “litmus test” of Indonesian Islam. In the capital of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the incumbent Jakarta governor Basuki Purnama Tjahaja, better known as Ahok, is battling to retain […]
Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?
The Washington Post: by Fraidy Reiss — We preach against child-marriage abroad. But thousands of American children are wed annually. Michelle DeMello and her husband Eric DeMello were married when she was just 16 and five months pregnant, and he was 19. This archival photograph was photographed in Lincoln City, […]
Women warriors: the extraordinary story of Khatoon Khider and her Daughters of the Sun
theguardian: by Emma Graham-Harrison — Khatoon Khider used to be a popular Yazidi singer. Now she’s the head of an all-women battle unit with Isis in its sights Long before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic […]