US ‘Deal of the Century’ will not fool anyone
Yossi Mekelberg June 11, 2019 Let us begin at the conclusion: No one should be fooled that a Trump peace plan, or a “Deal of the Century,” as the US […]
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, carrying $450M price tag, decorates Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad’s yacht: report
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP WASHINGTON, D.C. Published 11.06.2019 Since its sale for a record $450 million, the whereabouts of the “Salvator Mundi,” said to be painted by Leonardo […]
Greek Cyprus issues arrest warrant for Turkish drillship Fatih’s personnel, hiking tensions
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 10.06.2019 Greek Cyprus obtained the personal data of the employees of Fatih drillship working 36.5 nautical miles off the coast of the western city of […]
How Populists are Creating an Unholy Alliance with Christianity
The populist right is forging an unholy alliance with religion Source: Guardian By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Anton Jäger From Salvini to Orbán, ethno-nationalists are hijacking religious themes to fuel their […]
The Turks say: S. Arabia aims to create rift between Turkish, Saudi people with baseless claims
ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ @SeymNazli ISTANBUL Published 11.06.2019 The green mountains of the Black Sea region, with Trabzon and Artvin provinces being the main targets, have became yet another destination for […]
Scientific heritage of Fuat Sezgin to be appreciated at symposium
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 11.06.2019 Fuat Sezgin founded the Institute for the Arabic-Islamic Sciences, affiliated with Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1982. As part of 2019 Professor Emeritus Fuat Sezgin […]
Islam in Germany and France: A Collection of Articles
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient […]
Professor Emeritus Katharina Mommsen: ‘Goethe – The Muslim’
Collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Written by Dr. Katharina Mommsen, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Original year of publication 1967. The original title was […]
Christian Missions and the Construction of South Sudan
bySébastien Fath Sébastien Fath is a historian affiliated with the CNRS and the Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités research center (EPHE/CNRS). He has taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE […]
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader, ‘was a CIA informant’
There was a ‘nexus’ between Kim, who was assassinated in 2017, and US intelligence agency, WSJ reports Justin McCurry in Tokyo Tue 11 Jun 2019 08.44 BST Kim Jong-nam, the […]
US envoy decries lack of response from Islamic world to China’s attacks on Uighurs
Source: The Guardian Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have been silent in the face of the mass incarceration of Muslims in Xinjiang By Julian Borger in Washington […]
The populist right is forging an unholy alliance with religion
From Salvini to Orbán, ethno-nationalists are hijacking religious themes to fuel its agenda. Progressives need to fight back Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Anton Jäger Tue 11 Jun 2019 06.00 BST […]
Poems vs swastikas – there’s a cultural war being waged on the streets of Rome
The battle for ideological hegemony in the city mirrors that of wars gone by Alessio Colonnelli The Independent Voices Seventy-five years ago this month Rome was liberated by Anglo-American forces […]
Bloated bodies in the Nile show Sudan protesters were right to fear the arrival of Saudi and UAE money
The US has found itself in an even more embarrassing situation than it did in Egypt Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent Voices The Sudanese democracy demonstrators were the first to […]
‘Egg Boy’ Donates Almost $70,000 To Victims Of New Zealand Massacre
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Will Connolly, the Australian teen who egged an anti-Muslim politician, said funds he got through GoFundMe campaigns weren’t “mine to keep.” The Australian teenager […]
Kashmir’s Jewish Connection
By Kashmir Life on February 2, 2018 Scores of books and ethnolinguistic literature have been around to explain who the Lost Tribes of Israel took refuge in Kashmir. The […]
Germany slams online hate posts about murdered pro-migrant politician
AFP news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 7 June 2019 The German government on Friday slammed online hate commentaries cheering the unsolved murder of a Hesse politician, who was vocally pro-migrant. “If someone is […]
The township of Fatima in Portugal and we have the best collection for the Muslim heritage
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Fátima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfatimɐ] (listen)) is a city in the municipality of Ourém, Beira Litoral Province, in the […]
Tehran closes 547 restaurants for breaking ‘Islamic principles’
Source: Guardian Iranian police close venues for crimes ranging from ‘playing illegal music’ to ‘debauchery’ Iranian police have shut down 547 restaurants and cafes in Tehran for not observing “Islamic […]
Attackers destroy Qurans, break windows at 2 mosques in Germany
Source: Daily Sabah Attackers threw rocks at a mosque in the central German city of Kassel on Sunday while some 50 Qurans – the holy book of Islam – were damaged in another attack on a mosque in northwest Bremen. The Central Mosque in Kassel, which operates under the Turkish-Islamic […]