Nigeria Maiduguri: Two ‘young girls’ used as human bombs
Source: BBC Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. […]
Read Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech: ‘I Recognize That I Am in Very Rare Company’
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan “I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize” Bob Dylan was not in attendance at the 2016 […]
Donald Trump Mulls Exxon Mobil CEO as Secretary of State
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller President-elect Donald Trump is considering Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee for Secretary of State, capping a month-long audition process ripped from his […]
Darul Uloom Deoband Comes Out Openly Against the Tablighi Jamaat and Its Chief Maulvi Sa’ad Kandhaulvi
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page By New Age Islam Special Correspondent 10 December 2016 Perhaps first time in its age-old history, the largest Islamic seminary in India Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a categorical fatwa against the Tablighi Jama’at. Accusing […]
Turkey Mourns 38 Killed in Istanbul Blasts: ‘We Will Have Our Vengeance’
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul Turkey declared a national day of mourning on Sunday after a pair of bomb blasts killed 38 people outside a football stadium in central Istanbul on […]
Inside Democrats’ Plan to Beat Donald Trump at His Own Game
Source: Time By Sam Frizell Democrats in Congress are trying a new strategy: When it comes to the economy, adopt Donald Trump‘s message. Under the Capitol’s dome and far from depopulated […]
Mob wrests control of Ahmadi Mosque in Chakwal, Pakistan
Protesters wrest control of Ahmadi worship place in Chakwal Source: Express Tribune LAHORE: Scores of people participating in a procession organised in connection with Eid Miladun Nabi on Monday wrested […]
Ted Talk: Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion
Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule (“Do unto others…”), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in […]
An unexpected result of Yemen’s war: More men are cooking and cleaning
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan GUBAIYA, Yemen — The women in this village never earned money, never left home without the permission of their husbands. It had been […]
Five myths about U.S.-China relations
Source: The Washington Post By John Pomfret John Pomfret, a former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, is the author of “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and […]
Every Muslim woman I’ve met is integrated
Source: The Guardian BY Saadiyya Khan Croydon, Surrey What does integration mean? Does it mean contributing to society? Or assimilating into British culture? If the former then I believe every Muslim […]
German court rules Muslim girls must take part in swimming lessons
Source: The Guardian Germany’s highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that […]
Nigerian church collapse kills at least 160 worshippers – reports
Source: The Guardian The roof of a church collapsed on to worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, according to a hospital […]
‘Sugar gel’ helps premature babies
Source: BBC A dose of sugar given as a gel rubbed into the inside of the cheek is a cheap and effective way to protect premature babies against brain damage, […]
Mosul Dam collapse ‘will be worse than a nuclear bomb’
Source: Aljazeera by Barbara Bibbo As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally […]
Cairo bombing: Cairo Coptic Christian complex hit
Source: BBC A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say. Dozens of others were injured in […]
First Somali-American Lawmaker Threatened And Called ‘ISIS’ By Racist Cab Driver
Source: Huffington Post Adam Hamze Politics Intern, The Huffington Post STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP/GETTY IMAGESIlhan Omar told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she will continue to focus on the rest of her […]
Russian Interference Could Give Courts Legal Authority To Install Clinton
Source: Huffington Post BY Alex Mohajer Political Writer and Commentator 1995 federal court ruling out of Pennsylvania may offer some clues to Clinton supporters as to possible legal authority for removing […]
The Pope Just Approved A Very Troubling Document On Gays And Priesthood
Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post The Vatican has reaffirmed its position that gay men are barred from entering Catholic seminaries. In a document entitled […]