Refugee aid groups attacked as tensions rock Greek island
By AFP – Mar 03,2020 -JORDAN TIMES LESBOS ISLAND, Greece — Several aid groups on Greece’s Lesbos said they were suspending work with refugees and evacuating staff on Tuesday in […]
Erdogan finds himself without allies in beleaguered Idlib
Mar 03,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Turkey is now officially at war with the Syrian government in Damascus for the first time since 2011. It is something that […]
Coronavirus: Airlines struggle as deadly outbreak causes ‘bookings to collapse to zero’
IATA pleads for airport landing rights to be preserved Simon Calder Travel Correspondent @SimonCalder 3rd March 2020 independent.co.uk No new bookings, just cancellations: that is one leading airline’s current […]
What next for India’s Muslims? More suffering and a further crackdown on their rights by the Modi government
If identity documents are lost – including in attacks such as those seen in Delhi – it is not difficult to envisage a scenario in which a proportion of the […]
Bloomberg rips Sanders for boycotting AIPAC, calls his bigotry comments ‘dead wrong’
Source: NBC News By Allan Smith The Vermont senator had said the pro-Israel lobbying group provides a platform “for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.” WASHINGTON — […]
Russia’s Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin wants marriage to be defined as the union of a man and woman in a revised constitution, ruling out gay marriage. It is among […]
How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
Bloomberg’s abuse of the constitutional rights of Arabs and Muslims
Mar 02,2020 -JORDANTIMES – JAMES Z. ZOGBY “Mike will bring us together” is one of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign slogans, invoking his claim that, in the […]
Special Report – Broken Health: The medical crisis that’s aggravating Iraq’s unrest
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Reade Levinson BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – On the walls of Basra children’s cancer hospital hang photos of some of the youngsters who’ve been treated there. Most […]
US news Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans Richard Salame Mon 2 Mar 2020 The Guardian The closures could exacerbate Texas’s already chronically low voter turnout rates, to the advantage of incumbent […]
What next for India’s Muslims? More suffering and a further crackdown on their rights by the Modi government
If identity documents are lost – including in attacks such as those seen in Delhi – it is not difficult to envisage a scenario in which a proportion of the […]
What do Trump, Farage and Hitler have in common? A reliance on fiery, antagonistic rhetoric
Victor Klemperer’s moving diaries about the Second World War are of huge historic importance. But the volume he valued most is a short and devastating treatise on the […]
The Real Objective of Mob Violence Against Muslims in India
Source: The New Yorker By Isaac Chotiner, who is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he is the principal contributor to Q. & A., a series of interviews […]
A Journey from Christianity to Islam: First Ecumenical Council to Vatican II (325 CE – 1965 CE)
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every tragedy has a silver lining. The catastrophe of September 11, 2001, has put Islam under the microscope and constant scrutiny by the media. Thanks to this examination, every Muslim and every well informed non-Muslim, has […]
Angered by Trump’s plan, Israel’s Arabs look to oust Netanyahu
Mar 1, 2020 – 20:21 By Rami Ayyub NAZARETH, Israel (Reuters) – On the eve of Israel’s third election in a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been urging […]
Crypto Leaks: Swiss authorities file criminal complaint against encryption firm
Mar 1, 2020 – http://www.swissinfo.ch The economics authority says it was misled by the Zug-based company when it filed export applications for its secretly manipulated encryption devices. (Keystone / […]
How many Hindus live in Muslim countries?
Source: Facebook 6.3 million Hindus live and work in Saudi Arabia. 1.6 million in Oman. 1.1 million in Kuwait. 0.9 million in Bahrain. 1.3 million in Qatar 9.0million in UAE! […]
Afghanistan conflict: US-Taliban deal raises hope for peace
By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Kunduz 28 February 2020 An Afghan flag flutters above the busy roundabout which marks the centre of Kunduz city. Pointing up to it, a policeman […]
Young ethnic minority workers more likely to be in unstable jobs – study
Young people from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds are at greater risk of being in unstable employment, according to research. The group is 47% more likely to to […]
Israel’s UN ambassador tells AIPAC Bernie Sanders is an ‘ignorant fool’
‘We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel,’ declares Danny Danon of US Democratic frontrunner, who had called Netanyahu a ‘reactionary racist’ SOURCE: TIMES OF ISRAEL […]