Yemen crisis deepens as separatists declare self-governance
By AFP – Apr 26,2020 – JORDAN TIMES ADEN — Yemeni separatists early Sunday declared self-rule of the country’s south as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a […]
What if Covid-19 isn’t our biggest threat?
by Andrew Anthony, The Guardian When eventually the coronavirus crisis begins to recede and we return to an approximation of normality – no matter how socially distanced or how much […]
26 million job losses prove a sad fact about American businesses — and American people
What is remarkable is how quickly the bonds of employer and employee are severed in the American economy, and how quickly businesses — but not their employees — get handouts […]
In the UK, white immigration is an asset – while everyone else is undesirable
Source: Independent These laws have been racialised since their inception, argues Afua Hirsch. There’s a reason only some nationalities are seen as unthreatening to British identity A conversation that has […]
1984 Rare TV Interview With Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Pulitzer Prize Winner, Garry Wills Talks About the Quran for 50 Minutes A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the […]
The success of a Covid-19 vaccine will hinge on its delivery
Source: Stat News The lesson learned from a long history of using vaccines to fight massively disruptive diseases like smallpox and Ebola is that the vaccine itself is not enough. Like a good punch line, it’s all about the delivery. The smallpox vaccine was an average one with a limited […]
Saudi Arabia and China sign $265m deal to fight coronavirus
Source: Arab News BGI will provide the equipment for conducting 9,000,000 COVID-19 tests 50,000 daily tests will be conducted in six new regional labs JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia and China have […]
80% mosques in Punjab violate govt-Ulema agreement on Taraweeh
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: A survey has shown that more […]
Editorial: It is inflammatory for Tariq Jameel to claim that women should be blamed for a global pandemic
Source: Dawn WELL-KNOWN cleric Maulana Tariq Jameel has made a disturbing assertion that Covid-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the ‘wrongdoing of women’. During a televised prayer, the maulana condemned […]
Book Review: The Conference of the Birds
Book by Farid ud-Din Attar (Author) in Persian Book translated by: Dick Davis, who is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]
The Spiritual Life of the Peacock
Source: Wall Street Journal By Nic Rowan St. Anthony described the birds as purified by tribulation, then adorned with virtue. On a summer afternoon a few years ago, Lisa Schubert […]
Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs
Source: Business Insider By Bill Bostock Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city called Neom deep in a desert bordering the Red Sea. The state has pledged at least $500 […]
Saudi Arabia is responsible for the slow death of the kingdom’s Nelson Mandela
By Abdullah Alaoudh April 25, 2020 Abdullah Alaoudh is a senior fellow in the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi Arabia’s most prominent intellectual and […]
Ahmadiyya community announce virtual Iftar during quarantine
By Orlando Jenkinson Lando_j Reporter – Kingston, Elmbridge & Epsom South London and Surrey’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community announced plans for a virtual Big Iftar meal to mark Ramadan during […]
Ramadan unites Muslims worldwide amid coronavirus-enforced physical separation
Source: Arab News RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries have been forced to take strict precautionary measures to rein in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak during Ramadan. Sheikh Abdul […]
Erdoğan offers condolences to Turkey’s Armenian community over 1915 events
Source: Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered condolences to the Patriarch of Turkey’s Armenian community, as he highlighted determination to ensure that no citizen would be discriminated against based […]
Al-Aqsa preacher’s voice echoes across Jerusalem devoid of Ramadan crowds
Source: Swiss Info By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An imam standing atop an 18-foot pulpit in a near-empty Al-Aqsa Mosque delivered the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem, […]
Curfew partially lifted across Saudi Arabia, except in Makkah city
RIYADH: King Salman has ordered the partial lifting of a curfew across Saudi Arabia, with the exception of the holy city of Makkah and adjacent places previously isolated after a […]
US Republican candidate: ‘I’m pushing to put (Islam) on trial’
Source: Arab News By Epherm Kossaify NEW YORK: At first, the Republican Party of Iowa was quick to distance itself from Rick Phillips, a Republican candidate for the state’s 2nd […]
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country
Source: The Guardian Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like […]