Opinion: The UAE’s philanthropy boom
By Maram Ahmed // 09 April 2019 The United Arab Emirates is an emerging philanthropic power. For over a decade now, the number of philanthropic organizations has been booming in […]
Jan. 17, 1961: Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was Executed
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2011/1/21/patrice_lumumba_50_years_later_remembering On Jan. 17, 1961, democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed with the assistance of the governments of Belgium and the […]
Championing the higher path of peace – King of Jordan
Jan 15,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – In his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, His Majesty King Abdullah shed light on several issues and crises plaguing the Middle […]
Haftar ‘agrees to abide by’ ceasefire, ready to join Libya talks — Germany
By AFP – Jan 16,2020 -JORDAN TIMES BERLIN — Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has agreed to abide by a ceasefire and said he was ready to participate in an international conference in Berlin on Sunday, Germany’s foreign minister said. Libya’s UN-recognised government in Tripoli has been under attack since April […]
Iraq ouster of foreign troops would show US ‘failure’ — analysts
By AFP – Jan 16,2020 – JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — When it invaded in 2003, the United States promised “Iraqi freedom,” democracy, and prosperity. But 17 years later, its […]
Trump floats expanding NATO to add Middle East
Jan 9, 2020 – 19:50 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he supported expanding the North American Treaty Organization to include Middle Eastern nations, as the […]
Iran has been changed forever by admitting its great mistake – yet the west ignores its own deceits
Source: Independent The irony is that, when the US first claimed the Iranians were behind attacks on their soldiers in Iraq, they were likely not By Robert Fisk; @indyvoices “In wartime,” Churchill famously told Stalin, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” […]
Why a Muslim teen hides her religion
Source: SW News Media By Brett Martin When I heard a story about a teenager in our area who’s reluctant to reveal that she’s Muslim because she’s worried about being […]
Religious freedom means standing up for another person’s beliefs
Source: The Hill By Zeenat Rahman, Today is National Religious Freedom Day, the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a statute written by Thomas Jefferson […]
Trump To Reinforce Protections For Prayer In Schools
Source: NPR By Franco Ordoñez President Trump will use the power of his office to empower students who want to pray in their schools — and remind public schools they […]
A Saudi Man who donated “$16 Billion” In Charity and kicked himself out of the billionaires club
Source: Islamtics.com Yet Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi revealed in an interview that he’s no stranger to poverty, having been penniless on two separate occasions in his life. Sulaiman […]
Why Secularism is Essential, Even if You are Religious?
Donald Trump Is Promising ‘Big Action’ on School Prayer to Rally Evangelical Voters Source: MSN By Katie Reilly President Donald Trump is promising “big action” to promote school prayer, tapping […]
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, […]