Science: The Only Present Day Arbiter Between Religions?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have a few friends, whom I will not call my bosom friends, who in their moments of […]
Why the world is running out of sand – BBC Future
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
Gantz Says Netanyahu ‘Risks Igniting Civil War,’ Calls on Likud Members to Speak Out
Source: Haaretz By Chaim Levinson Statement follows leadership challenge from senior Likud member Gideon Sa’ar, who said Netanyahu is incapable of forming government Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz called Saturday […]
Rescue of all 60 children of the ‘caliphate’ urged as winter nears
Relatives and councils offer sanctuary to get children home before winter closes in Mark Townsend @townsendmark Sun 24 Nov 2019 A Syrian refugee child in October, after coming ashore at RAF base Akrotiri in Cyprus. Photograph: Jack Hill/The Times/PA Homes for all the 60 British children still stranded in north-east […]
Op-Ed: Kartarpur is more than symbolic
Source: Daily Times By Ikram Sehgal November 22, 2019 The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor providing access to Sikhs to visit the revered Sikh Guru’s final resting place is in […]
Plea filed against Pakistan Army chief for being Ahmadi Muslim
Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]
Trump’s Lawyers Argue Like They’re Defending King Donald I
Source: Huffington Post By SV Date The president cannot be prosecuted and should not be sued or impeached, according to his legal teams. WASHINGTON – The Oval Office’s occupant is […]
What Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman could learn from Prince Andrew – and vice versa
The two princes in hot water have one thing in common: a history of terrible personal and political choices Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Prince Andrew and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia have both had a bad week. On the very same day that Prince Andrew was giving his […]
I witnessed my first real battles and saw my first corpses in Belfast. It prepared me for the Middle East – Robert Fisk
Source: Independent In an exclusive clip from This Is Not A Movie, a documentary film by Yung Chang about the foreign reporting of Robert Fisk, we see the genesis of […]
Iraq’s secret sex trade
A BBC Arabic investigation has exposed a secret world of sexual exploitation of children and young women by clerics in Iraq. The practice of temporary marriage, illegal under Iraqi law, […]
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi about scope of religion and Shariah
Jāvēd Ahmad Ghāmidī (Urdu: جاوید احمد غامدی) (born 1951) is a Pakistani Muslim theologian, Quran scholar, Islamic modernist, exegete and educationist. He is also the founding President of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organisation Danish Sara.[1] He became a […]
Islam and Orthodox Christianity Have the Same Values, Putin Says
Source: The Moscow Times Orthodox Christianity and Islam are based on the same fundamental values, President Vladimir Putin said in an address to a religious conference in Kyrgyzstan. The conference, […]
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, if you truly want to know about evolution, Christianity, atheism and Islam
If you haven’t seen ‘Monkey Trial,’ you may not know law, science or American history Two Words for the Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias: Biological Evolution Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, […]
Darwin in America: The evolution debate in the United States
Source: Pew Research Center By David Masci Almost 160 years after Charles Darwin publicized his groundbreaking theory on the development of life, Americans are still arguing about evolution. In spite […]
Single mom’s car was impounded, then one cop realized she needed urgent help
By Sara Lei – August 5, 2019 There are times in our lives when everything appears to go against us. No matter how hard we try, things just don’t seem […]
UK defies UN deadline to return Chagos Islands
Refusal to return archipelago to Mauritius ‘lawless’ and ‘reflects colonial mindset’ says barrister Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent @owenbowcott Fri 22 Nov 2019 Britain’s “outright defiance” of a UN […]
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu indicted for bribery and fraud
Attorney general announces charges as crisis deepens for longest-serving leader Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Thu 21 Nov 2019 Benjamin Netanyahu describes corruption indictment as ‘attempted coup’ – video Israel’s […]
UK Government rescues British orphans of Isil fighters from Syria in first repatriation mission
Josie Ensor, Middle East Correspondent Charles Hymas 21 November 2019 • British orphaned children of Islamic State fighters have been rescued from Syria, in the first evacuation by the […]
Europe, Embrace your Heritage!
In the Volga city of Bolghar, Turks, Slavs and Vikings have mingled with Finnic fur traders and envoys from Samarkand and Armenia since the early Middle Ages Fearing supposed ethnic replacement and Islamisation, the German Right looks longingly towards Russia. What kind of ahistorical myopia is that? Source: Zenith by […]
Video: Man attacks pregnant Muslim woman in Sydney café
Source: Daily Sabah A pregnant Muslim woman, who is 38 weeks along, was brutally attacked by a random man at a western Sydney cafe late Wednesday, Australian media reported Thursday. […]