Ted Talk: What we can do about the culture of hate
Watch the video in the Ted website or watch it below in the Muslim Times: Additional Reading and Viewing Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message […]
CNN Video: President Trump’s Impeachment and Congressman Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff is currently in his 10th term […]
In Defense of the Secular Narrative of the Holy Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Does the Quran present a theocratic or a secular state? My short answer is ‘a secular state!’ […]
Indonesian man who helped set strict adultery laws flogged for adultery
Source: BBC An Indonesian man – who worked for an organisation that helped draft strict adultery laws – has been publicly whipped after being caught having an affair with a […]
Plan to ban niqab in government offices stirs controversy
Source: The Jakarta Post A suggestion proposed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s minister to ban the niqab in government offices has triggered mixed responses among officials and politicians amid the […]
The new revolutions of the Middle East are not the same, but they all share this one fatal flaw
They have no leadership, no recognisable faces of integrity. And – the greatest tragedy of all – they don’t seem to be interested in finding any Robert Fisk in Beirut […]
Mosque evacuated over bomb threat in Germany’s Cologne
ANADOLU AGENCY COLOGNE Published 31.10.2019 The mosque officials told Anadolu Agency that the mosque complex, which houses the headquarters of the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, was evacuated in the afternoon […]
Migrants on Greek islands ‘on edge of catastrophe,’ rights watchdog says
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Published 31.10.2019 The situation for migrants in camps on Greek islands is “explosive” and “on the edge of catastrophe,” the Council of Europe’s commissioner for […]
TheFace: Lubna Abdul Aziz Al-Khalidi, Saudi media personality
I am an emerging media figure working for the Eastern Region Channel and a director of corporate communications, public relations and media in a major Saudi investment company. Born […]
Tug of war
Oct 31,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh Over the past couple of decades in particular, our world has undergone dramatic changes. Globalisation, the information and technology revolution, postmodernism, […]
Macron and Islam: French president weighs in on new headscarf row
Source: France 24 By François PICARD France is on again, off again row over the Muslim headscarf is on again. This time, was it the president who started it? […]
If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam Wins!
Epigraph: And you (Muhammad) shall assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are […]
Jammu and Kashmir: India formally divides flashpoint state
The area is one of the most militarised in the world India has formally divided the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two new federally-administered territories. In the new […]
Trump is not the first, and will not be the last, US politician to exploit, then drop the Kurds
Oct 30,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN In response to US President Donald Trump’s personal triumphalism over the slaying by US forces of Daesh’s leader, Kurdish militia Commander Mazloum […]
Hazrat Khadija r.a.
25th October 2019 Awais Rabbani, Pakistan “She believed in me when the whole world refuted and attested to my truth when the whole world accused me of falsehood. She offered […]
Islamic State Baghdadi raid video released as US general warns of Isis reprisal attacks
General Kenneth McKenzie says Isis will remain a threat as he shows footage of raid on leader’s Syria hideout Julian Borger in Washington Wed 30 Oct 2019 Pentagon […]
Richard Dawkins admits a world with no God would be immoral
Source: Premier By Heather Preston Noted atheist Richard Dawkins has admitted a world without God would lead to moral decline. Speaking to The Times, Dawkins said he fears the removal […]
China issues morality guidelines telling citizens to ‘inherit the red gene’
Source: New York Post By Yaron Steinbuch Chinese citizens have been instructed to “inherit the red gene” by following new morality guidelines that focus heavily on nationalism and people’s duty […]
Did Pope Francis say that Jesus isn’t God? Don’t believe the report, Vatican says
Vatican City, Oct 9, 2019 / 12:11 pm (CNA) – The Vatican said Wednesday that an Italian journalist it has previously corrected was not speaking accurately when he claimed that […]
Muslim headscarf debate divides France, in climate of hate
PARIS (AP) — When a French official disrupted a regional council meeting to demand that a Muslim woman accompanying a group of schoolchildren be ordered to remove her headscarf, “in […]