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Epigraph: It is Allah Who created you in a state of weakness, and after weakness gave strength; then, after strength, caused weakness and old age. He creates what He pleases. […]
Book Review of a Novel: Mayor of Casterbridge
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
London’s first mosque – archive
theguardian — 4 October 1926: After the opening ceremony the Imam called the faithful to prayer from the minarets high over the roofs of suburbia 1935: The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (far left) on a visit to London’s Fazl mosque, the first purpose-built mosque in the capital. Photograph: Alamy/Stock […]
Why I’m Not Afraid To Identify As Both Muslim And A Feminist
Huff Post: by Krutika Pathi — This post originally appeared on Bustle. Growing up in America with an Iranian mother who, after an arranged marriage, came to this country with no agency to pursue an education, I realized how difficult it can be to navigate gender along the lines of […]
On Abortion, A Surprising Number Of Catholics Side With Tim Kaine
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Despite the Catholic Church’s clear and consistent teaching that having an abortion ― and in fact, using all forms of artificial contraception ― […]
With Kaine and Pence, religion finally takes center stage in Election 2016
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe RNS) Religion hasn’t played much of a role in the presidential campaign. Sure, Donald Trump made a faux pas when he placed cash on the Communion plate.And Hillary Clinton has occasionally invoked a phrase popular among members of her Methodist faith to discuss how her religious […]
Exclusive: 4 Breakthrough Uterus Transplants Performed in the U.S.
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin The surgeries could ultimately allow thousands of women without a uterus to give birth in the future Four American women have received womb transplants from living […]
Women Are More Scared About the Election Than Men
Source: Time By Ryan Teague Beckwith Women are much more likely to say they are scared about the presidential election, according to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll. In an online tracking poll of […]
Tiny machines win chemistry Nobel prize
Source: BBC By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir […]
Hurricane Matthew: Thousands displaced in Haiti
Source: BBC The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, with rescuers struggling to reach the worst-hit areas. Hurricane Matthew is […]
US election: Trump ‘fool’ and Clinton ‘weak’, say VPs
Source: BBC Donald Trump was likened to a “fool or maniac” while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as “weak and feckless” in a punchy vice-presidential debate. Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of topics ranging from abortion to Russia. Even as they […]
CBC-Angus Reid Institute poll: Canadians want minorities to do more to ‘fit in’
Source: CBC News As a divisive election tears Americans apart over questions of race and immigration, a CBC News poll suggests Canadians are right in believing they think very differently […]
Epidemic of overtreatment of prostate cancer must stop
Source: CNN Prostate cancer is a significant disease in the U.S. In 2014 alone, the American Cancer Society estimates, 233,000 men will be diagnosed and 29,480 will die of it. […]
Canada: Anti Muslim posters at U of Calgary prompt rally of support
Anti-Muslim posters at University of Calgary prompt rally of support WARNING: Graphic language By Robson Fletcher, CBC News Posted: Oct 04, 2016 2:07 PM MT Last Updated: Oct 05, 2016 6:55 AM MTStudents and staff at the University of Calgary responded by coming together to write messages of support and tolerance after the campus […]
Tabiat Bridge wins Aga Khan Award for Architecture
October 5, 2016 TEHRAN — The Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, a huge infrastructure that connects two parks separated by a highway in northern Tehran, has won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture worth $1 million. The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced during a ceremony held […]
Russia launches huge nuclear war training exercise that ‘involves 40 million people’
‘Schizophrenics from America are sharpening nuclear weapons for Moscow,’ says Russian government-run TV network Matt Payton A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of delivering multiple nuclear weapons, is paraded through Moscow’s Red Square in the 2009 Victory Day parade DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/Getty Images The Russian government has launched a nationwide […]
World Teachers Day-UNESCO: Fiji Sun TV
Benefiting from teaching career I am delighted and very proud to be part of this significant world. I began my professional life as an elementary school teacher. Over the years I moved from teaching to law enforcement career but what I found was that my love for teaching always remained […]
Video: An exclusive interview of Amir AMJ Canada Lal Khan Malik
Interviewed by Saiful Islam, Toronto Suggested Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Canada: Brampton woman’s father-in-law acknowledges role in her killing
By ALYSHAH HASHAMStaff Reporter Tues., Oct. 4, 2016 The father of a woman convicted of manslaughter for stabbing her pregnant sister-in-law in the neck has finally acknowledged his role in covering up the crime for years.Undated file photo of Poonam Litt who was murdered by her sister-in-law Mandeep Punia. (STAR FILE PHOTO) […]
2016 Nobel in Physics Shows Again: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times 3 Who Studied Unusual States of Matter Win […]