Thousands of children are abused in Senegal’s religious schools
Source: The Economist Mbar lifts up his trousers and points at the marks where the chains wore his skin away. He was 11 when his father sent him from his village […]
A Quebec bill to ban some from wearing ‘religious symbols’ is fueled by Islamophobia
Source: The Washington Post By Nora Loreto Nora Loreto is a Canadian freelance writer and author of “From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement.” Fatima Ahmad was attacked in […]
Being Christian in Western Europe
Source: Pew Research Center Western Europe, where Protestant Christianity originated and Catholicism has been based for most of its history, has become one of the world’s most secular regions. Although […]
Indian Court Convicts 6 Hindus in Rape and Murder of Muslim Girl, 8
Source: The New York Times By Kai Schultz NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Monday convicted six men over the kidnap, rape and murder of a Muslim nomadic girl […]
Groups launch challenge of Quebec’s secularism bill one day after it becomes law
Source: CTV News Less than 24 hours after it became law, groups representing Canadian Muslims and civil liberties advocates sought Monday to have Quebec’s secularism legislation struck down as unconstitutional. The National Council of Canadian Muslims, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Ichrak Nourel Hak — a Universite de Montreal […]
Bill 21: Quebec passes secularism law after marathon session
Eleven years after the Bouchard-Taylor report recommended the idea, Quebec now has secularism legislation that bans the wearing of religious symbols by certain public servants in positions of authority by overriding their fundamental rights Source: The Montreal Gazette Eleven years after the Bouchard-Taylor report recommended the idea, Quebec now has […]
Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?
Source: MSN By Moustafa Bayoumi On 11 June, a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona refused to convict the immigration activist Scott Warren on felony charges that could have sent him […]
Bangladesh changes prison breakfast after 200 years
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP BGD/Dhaka Division/Dhaka Published 16.06.2019 Bangladesh authorities have upgraded a 200-year-old colonial-era breakfast menu in all its prisons, an official said Sunday, as part of a […]
Former President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi dies in court
Source: Daily Sabah Former President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi has died in court, Egyptian state television said Monday. It said Mursi had fainted after a court session and died afterwards. […]
Never-ending tensions in the Ankara-Washington dialogue
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran 16.06.2019 With the S-400 missile defense system’s delivery around the corner, tensions are escalating between Turkey and the United States. The Turks are committed to buying the […]
Bosnians protest against migrant influx in border town
Jun 16, 2019 By Dado Ruvic BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) – Several hundred Bosnians protested on Sunday against an influx of migrants in the western border town of Bihac, warning […]
Is God Necessary for Morality? We have the Best Answers …
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A growing share of Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral Source: Pew […]
Mental health: Why the world is so divided on burnout
By Jessica Davis Plüss Jun 17, 2019 The latest Job Stress Index survey found more than a quarter of Swiss workers suffering from critical levels of workplace stress. (Keystone) Burnout […]
Video: 5G self-driving buses, without driver seat, hit the road in Zhengzhou, China
BEIJING — Buses circling a 1.53 km route in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are offering a sneak peek at what the combination of 5G telecommunications and self-driving technology is […]
Press Release – New social media platform based on Islamic values: LABAYK
Alicia Van Der Meer <alicia@monumentalmarketing.co.uk> Mon 6/17/2019 A new social media platform based on Islamic morals and values called Labayk, is about to launch globally for all to use. Labayk is a fun, new social media platform which offers a socially conscious and user-friendly experience. Labayk aims to […]
Whenever 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 […]
An inquiry into abuse at Brook House detention centre is welcome – but it’s the system itself that’s the problem
The abuse I saw as a manager there does not spring up at random. It is endemic to a system that dehumanises the 25,000 people it locks up indefinitely each […]
No one is innocent in the Gulf of Oman debacle – but Trump’s ‘evidence’ of Iran’s role is dodgy at best
In the real world, there should be a military alliance between the US and Iran. But as its withdrawal from the nuclear deal showed last year, Washington no longer moves […]
Sara Netanyahu convicted of misusing public funds
By Mike Schwartz, CNN An Israeli judge has convicted Sara Netanyahu of misusing public funds to pay for meals at the Prime Minister’s residence. The wife of Prime Minister Benjamin […]