Houthi offer of truce in Yemen ‘positive’ — Riyadh
By AFP – Oct 06,2019 – JORDAN TIMES RIYADH — Saudi Arabia gave a “positive” response Friday to a truce offer from Houthi rebels in Yemen and called for […]
Parents’ Responsibilities to Safeguard Their Children’s Faith in a Secular Society
5th October 2019 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) France 2019. At the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s annual convention in […]
Trump leaves his Kurdish allies utterly betrayed by a shady deal with a desperate Erdogan
The Turkish president has agreed to be the prison guard for northern Syria in return for some political gains for his own domestic survival Alpaslan Ozerdem It is no secret […]
Tolerance – Its Importance in Social Life
By Junaid Ahmad Waraich, Pakistan Society is formed by groups of individuals who possess different elements that make them human. We all have our unique characteristics and personalities that make […]
Fall not into temptation – Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V addresses women at Jalsa Salana France
5th October 2019 Trie-Chateau, France, Saturday, 05 October: Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V, may Allah be his Helper, graced the ladies’ Jalsa Gah on the second day of Jalsa Salana France […]
Stoning, Flogging and Severing of Limbs to Be Introduced in Brunei
Editor’s note: This news is from 2013 but is almost equally true today. Time: The Sultan of Brunei announced on Tuesday the gradual introduction of harsh Islamic punishments, such as […]
The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for how human cells adapt to the availability of oxygen
Epigraph: Whoever saves a life, it will be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been jointly […]
LATEST: Only Allah and His messengers will prevail – Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V concludes the 27th Jalsa Salana France
6th October 2019 Trie-Chateau, France, Sunday, 06 October: The 27th Jalsa Salana France concludes with Bai‘at and the final address of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V, may Allah be his Helper. The Bai‘at ceremony at the 27th Jalsa Salana France took place at approximately 3:15 local time. Huzooraa then led the […]
A Muslim girl will be the star of the new Marvel’s Avengers video game and people are ecstatic
Marvel’s first Muslim Avenger Kamala Khan, who goes by the alter-ego of Ms Marvel, is set to have her own video game, it was announced at New York Comic Con. […]
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is getting away with tyranny in Egypt thanks to his UK and US allies
Over 3,000 people have been detained in anti-government protests. Yet Trump calls the Egyptian president his favourite dictator, and Britain remains Egypt’s single largest investor Bel Trew @beltrew Some […]
Attorneys for CIA Officer Behind Trump Complaint Say They Now Represent ‘Multiple Whistleblowers’
Letter is mentioned in tonight’s @WSJ article: Attorneys for CIA Officer Behind Trump Complaint Say They Now Represent ‘Multiple Whistleblowers’ https://t.co/Rr67mNY1r4 — Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) October 7, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js […]
The US and Iran are playing a dangerous game
Oct 03,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Volker Perthes BERLIN — As the United States and Iran face off in the Gulf, their asymmetric conflict risks spiralling out of control. […]
Yemen’s ‘forgotten war’
Oct 02,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHEL JANSEN The Arabs must press the main combatants to end the war in Yemen, the region’s poorest country. Opportunities for peacemakers have […]
In Beirut, I can no longer get American dollars out of the ATM. This is what it tells me about Lebanon’s economy
The US is still trying to destroy the Assad regime in Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Is this what underlays the frightening economic undertow? Robert Fisk in Beirut […]
These Charts Show How High Sea Levels Will Rise if Antarctica’s Ice Continues to Melt
Source: Time BY JEFFREY KLUGER Humans were not around to see Antarctica in the good times, tens of millions of years ago, when it was home to palms and baobab trees, […]
‘Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang’: China’s Hui Muslims Face Crackdown
Source: NPR By Emily Feng Gold-domed mosques and gleaming minarets once broke the monotony of the Ningxia region’s vast scrubland every few miles. This countryside here is home to some […]
Assisting a suicide is not always a crime, rules Italian court
Source: The Guardian Italy’s constitutional court has ruled it was not always a crime to help someone in “intolerable suffering” kill themselves, opening the way for a change of law […]
French education minister reignites row over Muslim headscarf
Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris A fresh political row has erupted over the Muslim headscarf in France after the education minister said he wanted to avoid having mothers in hijab […]