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By Zia H Shah on August 16, 2012 ( 1 Comment )

ARAB NEWS – Islamic Solidarity Summit

Final Communiqué of Extraordinary Islamic Solidarity Summit Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah speaks during the OIC summit in Mecca. | | A A http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1345016233.html#_=1345175140851&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F421129&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F421129&size=m&text=Final%20Communiqu%C3%A9%20of%20Extraordinary%20Islamic%20Solidarity%20Summit%20%7C%20ArabNews%3A&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F421129%23.UC2-YlM1NC8.twitter https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F421129&size=medium&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DI5V0PLgEMWQ.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!YLz4zcRjznaA2Lb5GQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOZFeBWoUW9R3WD-JeCrvEkHSfOUQ#id=I1_1345175140157&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&rpctoken=970645997&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F421129&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=100&action=like&font=arial&layout=button_count ARAB NEWS Friday 17 August 2012 Islamic solidarity Summit’s complete Final Communiqué The Summit was briefed on the reports and recommendations submitted to it […]

By Zia H Shah on August 12, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Twin earthquakes kill 220 and injure 1,500 in Iran

Zahra Hosseinian | Reuters ARABNEWS Sunday 12 August 2012 DUBAI: Two powerful earthquakes killed 220 people and injured around 1,500 in northwest Iran where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives. Thousands huddled […]

By Zia H Shah on August 11, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

US and Turkey to set up Syria crisis working group

Credit: BBC Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Syrian refugees in Istanbul US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said a working group will be set up with Turkey to plan a joint response to the Syrian crisis. She said after talks in Istanbul that she had […]

By Zia H Shah on August 9, 2012 ( 5 Comments )

Miraj physical or spiritual important perspective

To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page In the month of Ramadan Muslims around the world struggle to deal with the Miraj – the accession to heaven by the Holy Prophet of Islam that to us Ahmadi Muslim is pretty clear was […]

By Zia H Shah on August 8, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

The Drumbeat of Ramadan

By ANDREW FINKEL INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ISTANBUL — It is the holy month of Ramadan and, just before twilight, my Istanbul neighborhood fills with an intoxicating smell from the two […]

By Zia H Shah on August 3, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Obama brings Erdogan into bat

Credit: Asia Times The image the White House used to illustrate United States President Barack Obama’s phone call to Recep Tayyip Erdogan conveyed a simple but blunt message, according to the Turkish press: “Whack Bashar, Erdogan Bey”. However, in helping overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Turkish prime minister is […]

By Zia H Shah on July 28, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Welcome to the Kurdish Spring

Credit: Asia Times Turkish foreign policy, codified by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, used to be known in shorthand as “zero problems with our neighbors”. When Turkey started calling for regime change in Syria, it turned into “a major problem with one of our neighbors” (even tough Davutoglu himself admitted on […]

By Zia H Shah on July 28, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Secret Turkish nerve center leads aid to Syria rebels

By Regan Doherty, Amena Bakr DAILY STAR, LEBANON A Turkish F-16 fighter jet leaves its hangar for take off from Incirlik airbase in the southern Turkish city of Adana July 4, 2012. REUTERS/Umit Bektas DOHA/DUBAI: Turkey has set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct […]

By Zia H Shah on July 26, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Turkey a hub for Syria revolution as illegal border crossing points abound

Washington Post: Come nightfall, a bucolic farming village begins to buzz with unusual activity. Shadowy figures emerge from olive groves, clutching small suitcases. Cars crowd the winding rural road collecting […]

By Zia H Shah on July 26, 2012 ( 4 Comments )

Introducing the Gulen Movement: Prophet’s Path in the Twenty-first Century

By Muzaffar K. Awan, M.D., Grand Rapids Michigan, USA In the contemporary world, the relations between people of the world are becoming more cordial as territorial borders are becoming less important in a globalizing world. Also, the people around the world increasingly share some common universal values such as the […]

By Zia H Shah on July 25, 2012 ( 4 Comments )

Book Review: George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century”

George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century” Reviewed by Bill Marmon “Europe is extinct.” “China cannot survive a billion pissed off peasants.” “Turkey is a power.” “The U.S. will dominate the 21st Century.” These are a few of the audacious and often controversial predictions of […]

By Zia H Shah on July 21, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Turkish truck owners still wait at border post near Syria

AFP | Jul 21, 2012 | 01:42 Cilvegozu, Turkey (AFP) – Dozens of Turkish truck drivers whose lorries were burned or looted as Syrian rebels battled loyalist troops at a […]

By Zia H Shah on July 16, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

For Illegal Immigrants, Greek Border Offers a Back Door to Europe

Source: NY times. By J. MICHAEL KENNEDY Published: July 14, 2012 ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece — At the train station here, an unshaven man with a weary look leaned against the brick wall of a building, taking in the morning sun. He said that his name was Zulifoar Baht; that he was 38, […]

By Zia H Shah on July 14, 2012 ( 3 Comments )

Berlin to Protect Right to Ritual Circumcision or ‘we are lucky that Jewish boys are being circumcised too’

By VANESSA FUHRMANS WALL STREET JOURNAL BERLIN—Germany’s government pledged Friday to pass a law to protect the ritual circumcision of young boys, seeking to calm a fractious debate over the religious rights of the country’s Jews and Muslims that has erupted since a German court ruled the practice amounted to […]

By Zia H Shah on July 12, 2012 ( 2 Comments )

New Muslim Prayer Mat Sheds Light When Facing Mecca

Religion News Service | By Lauren Markoe HUFFINGTON POST (RNS) Devout Muslims pray five times a day, facing the holy city of Mecca. But what if you don’t know what […]

By Zia H Shah on July 6, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

Is this the UAE’s tiniest baby ever?

DUBAI: A premature baby born at just 570 grams with a head as small as a plum has miraculously survived after battling it out for four months at a private […]

By Zia H Shah on July 6, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

General from Assad inner circle reportedly defects

BEIRUT — In what would be the most high-profile defection from the inner circle of the Syrian leadership, Manaf Tlas, a friend of President Bashar Assad and a brigadier in his Republican Guard, was reported on Wednesday to have fled to Turkey. Meanwhile, Syrian troops pushed into the rebel-held northern […]

By Zia H Shah on May 31, 2012 ( Leave a comment )

THE NEXT 100 YEARS – A FORECAST for the 21st Century

An extract from the book: THE NEXT 100 YEARS – A FORECAST for the 21st Century By George FRIEDMAN published in 2009 by Anchor Books The books gives us a Global Forecast. We are giving our readers as a sample the chapter on Turkey pages 144 to 148. TURKEY During […]