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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

New trial to test if anti-inflammatory drug colchicine prevents COVID-19 complications

Source: Fox News By Christopher Carbone A new international trial will examine whether a common anti-inflammatory drug known as colchicine could ward off COVID-19 symptoms and potentially prevent the need […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 21, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia

By Mehdi Hasan If anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest hatred, perhaps Islamophobia is the world’s weirdest. How else to explain the fact that a pandemic of global and historic proportions, […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

‘Guy with 100kg of flour seeking girl with 100 rolls of toilet paper’

Adnan Mahmutovic Alia Amir Ramis Orlu 8 Apr 2020   Humour helps us deal with anxiety and the current pandemic is a testament to that notion. A global pandemic is […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Yesterday, Jews were demonised for spreading disease. Today, it’s Muslims

  CJ Werleman    TRT WORLD 6 days ago   In countries like India and Israel Muslims are being scapegoated for the spread of Covid-19. When the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th Century, killing roughly 50 percent of those infected and one-third of the continent’s […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The pandemic deepens the sectarian divide in the Middle East

Shahram Akbarzadeh Accusations of biological aggression is distracting the region from working together to defeat Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic calls for urgent regional and international coordination to tackle the spread […]

By Zia H Shah on April 21, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Baba Guru Nanak: A Saintly Bridge Between Hinduism and Islam

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Guru Nanak ([gʊɾuː naːnəkᵊ], pronunciation, IAST: Gurū Nānak) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539), also referred to as Baba Nanak[1] (‘father Nanak’), was […]

By Zubair Khan on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Israeli professor offers alternate coronavirus prediction

Source: AT Israel professor does not believe the global approach of enforcing a lockdown to contain the coronavirus is the right solution, based on virus infection data he has analyzed. His finding shows that the coronavirus spread peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days, a result that […]

By Zubair Khan on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

French prof sparks furor with lab leak claim

Source: AT A theory put forward by French professor Luc Montagnier — award-winning co-discoverer of the AIDS virus but also mocked by some colleagues for some outrageous theories — has sparked a scientific firestorm. According to the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, a man used to controversy, the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]

By Zubair Khan on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

China’s ‘mask diplomacy‘ wins over US blame game

Source: AT MANILA – Following high-profile deployments of medics and medical equipment to virus-hit nations in Europe and the Middle East, China is now ramping up its “face mask diplomacy” closer to home in neighboring Southeast Asia. As US politicians call for China to be held accountable for spawning the […]

By A Q Farhat on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Who was Gabriel Wortman, the denturist behind the Nova Scotia mass shooting?

Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]

By A Q Farhat on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya

Source: Patheos by Dan Peterson I’m beginning to write up a brief introductory discussion of the great early Muslim mystic Rābiʿa al-‘Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya.  In order to do so, I’m drawing […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Austrian Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Wilhelm Ott Converts to Islam

Ott said the coronavirus crisis helped him find his faith. By Safaa Kasraoui Apr 19, 2020 Rabat – Austrian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Wilhelm Ott announced his conversion to […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Coronavirus: Plasma treatment to be trialled

Source: BBC By Rebecca Morelle; Science correspondent, BBC News The UK is gearing up to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease. NHS […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

France First Banned Face Veil Targeting Muslims, Now Fines €150 for Not Covering Face amid Coronavirus

France banned the wearing of Veil (Burqa and Hijab) Islamic attire which is worn by Muslims across the world, was banned by France in 2011. There is a complete ban […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

In Modi’s India, virus fallout inflames divisions between Muslims and Hindus

By Alexandra Ulmer and Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

US and Russia blocking UN plans for a global ceasefire amid crisis

Resolution strongly supported by dozens of countries, human rights groups and charities Simon Tisdall Sun 19 Apr 2020 The US fears the measure could hinder its ability to prosecute military […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Dolphins reconquer Istanbul’s historic peninsula

  As citizens enter their second weekend of lockdown, Turkey’s maritime denizens continue to enjoy a significant decrease in sea traffic in the country’s biggest city. Dolphins were seen by […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Culture Unorthodox: a thrilling story of rebellion and freedom from New York to Berlin

Shira Haas is mesmerising as the young woman fleeing a closed Hasidic Jewish community for a new life in secular Berlin There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after you’ve finished watching the four-part miniseries.  photo Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Western governments are sorely underestimating how dependent they are on China

Editorial: On some measures, the country is now the world’s largest economy and can also be fairly ranked as a military superpower @IndyVoices Independent Premium As the formal but ill-defined prime ministerial stand-in, Dominic Raab has sometimes appeared hesitant to take the kind of decisions that only prime ministers can […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Using alcohol to cope with coronavirus lockdown is exposing our class divides

Alcohol is ‘unhelpful coping strategy’ for coronavirus lockdown says WHO Alcohol is the most accessible that we can self-medicate with, and repeat prescriptions are always available. But now detox is […]

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