Hamas calls for mass attendance at Al-Aqsa, Cave of the Patriarchs prayers
By TZVI JOFFRE JANUARY 16, 2020 13:41 PALESTINIAN MEN pray on the Temple Mount as they mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on August 11. (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD […]
Fears over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act are unfounded
The huge hullabaloo over the CAA is difficult to understand unless it is a cynical campaign to rouse communal passions under the garb of protecting the secular nature of the Constitution. POLITICS 16-01-2020 Kanwal Sibal The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been passed by Parliament after a thorough debate in […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya mosque, houses attacked in Brahmanbaria
Source: New Age Bangladesh Islamists demand declaring them non-Muslim Staff Correspondent | Published: Jan 16,2020 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh on Wednesday expressed concern over Tuesday evening’s attacks on its mosque […]
Joel Osteen Very Articulate about Avoiding Pork
Joel Osteen Very Articulate about Avoiding Pork https://t.co/ErsLkud5eh via @wordpressdotcom — TheMuslimTimes (@TheMuslimTimes2) February 22, 2018 Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times about […]
Potential super-Earth found orbiting the nearest star from our sun
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) In 2016, astronomers found a potentially habitable planet called Proxima b around the star Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.2 light-years from Earth. Now, researchers […]
French priest recounts how he abused boy scouts over decades
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY LYON, France (AP) — A former priest detailed Tuesday how he systematically abused boys over two decades as a French scout chaplain, and said his superiors knew […]
Did you know Harvard recognizes Quran as one of best expressions for justice?
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. Promoted post: The Story of Adam and A Progressive, Metaphorical Reading of the Quran The university […]
Non-Muslim teachers wear Islamic veil in protest of local ‘burqa ban’ in Sweden
Source: Islam City21 After the Sweden Democrats proposed a bill in 2018 to go “against the full-covering Muslim veil in all public places”, the local council in southern Sweden, Skurup, […]
Talk of A ‘Clash Of Civilisations’ Between Islam And The West Is Extremely Dangerous And Irresponsible – Head of The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
October 24, 2019 Press Releases His Holiness says that atheism is undermining Western traditions and heritage Caliph says Islam is no threat to Western civilisation Muslim leader condemns modern day ‘economic slavery’ and warns of risk of nuclear warfare4 On 22 October 2019, the World Head of the […]
Iran’s Islamic regime will be in deep trouble if it doesn’t reform
Date 1/14/2020 4:22:25 AM Tweet on Twitter (MENAFN – NewsIn.Asia) By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror The United States’ 40-year sanctions-based economic war against the radical Islamic regime in Iran may end […]
Killing of Soleimani evokes history of political assassinations in the formative days of Shiite Islam
By Deina Abdelkader Posted on Tuesday, 14 January 2020 Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who promoted the religious and political influence of the Iranian regime across the Middle East with covert […]
Turkey edges toward Islamic law with new finance rules
Orhan Kemal Cengiz January 14, 2020 Article Summary Turkey’s ruling party has imposed religious rules in the public sphere, a move that could have major implications for the country’s […]
Bali bombers’ brother, bomb widow become friends, seek peace
Posted Wednesday, January 8, 2020 6:00 am By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press TENGGULUN, Indonesia – The young Balinese widow stared across the courthouse at the man who had murdered her husband and 201 others, and longed to see him suffer. Ever since that horrible night, when she realized amid […]
The Kazakh Muslims detained in China’s camps
Since 2017, thousands of Kazakh Muslims have been detained in China’s infamous re-education camps. Survivors who have returned to Kazakhstan, say during months of incarceration they were tortured, beaten and […]
How anti-Muslim war makes US democracy impossible
Source: MONDOWEISS By Edward Curtis, who is professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of Muslim American Politics and the Future of U.S. Democracy (NYU Press, 2019). […]
Jewish history: A tale of passports, profiteers and escaping Nazi persecution
By Andrea Tognina (text) and Helen James (picture editor) The Jewish community in Switzerland regularly collected donations to help fellow Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and those already seeking refuge in […]
THE GAMBIA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at supports more KM disaster victims
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, The Gambia, last Friday supported six more fire and flood disaster victims in the Kanifing Municipality with food items and cash. Each of […]
Egypt needs to agree Renaissance Dam deal
Dr. Abdellatif El-Menawy January 14, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/5vb3b There are just hours left until the results of the latest crucial round of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam […]
What’s behind Haftar’s refusal to sign Libya deal?
By AFP – Jan 14,2020 – JORDAN TIMES TRIPOLI — Military strongman Khalifa Haftar’s reluctance to sign up to a Turkish-Russian orchestrated ceasefire accord underlines the complexity of Libya’s conflict […]
What you should know about Israel’s ‘firing zones’ in the West Bank
Jan 14,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: […]