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 […]
Prince Charles pays respects to the Muslim NHS workers who died treating coronavirus patients in video marking the start of Ramadan
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline Prince Charles has paid his respects to Muslim NHS workers who have lost their lives on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. […]