As a Black Child, I Couldn’t Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes
Source: New York Times By Eric V Copage I must have been no older than 6. I was in church in my hometown, Los Angeles. Parishioners fanned themselves to stay […]
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!’ […]
The current political landscape in Malaysia
MUHAMMET ALI GÜLER Published20.04.2019 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, April 15, 2019. Initially serving from 1981 to 2003, Mahathir Mohamad […]
Threatening the ICC
IMRAN JAN Published. 22.04.2019 In Colombia, when Pablo Escobar was at the height of his drug career and when he was the most lethal, judges in courts had to give […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Khan makes first visit to Iran
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP TEHRAN Published 21.04.2019 Reuters Photo Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan began his first official visit to Iran on Sunday for talks set to focus on […]
Recognition of God: A means of salvation
APRIL 18, 2019 Why Dangote missed Warri Jalsa Ishola Balogun Just after the Fajr prayers, it became cloudy with a little drizzle in Warri. Hundreds of Muslims had gathered at […]
Sri Lanka Terrorism Linked to a Jihadi Group
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Sri Lanka attacks: ‘International network’ linked to bombings Source: BBC A wave […]
Dundee mosque targeted by vandals invites public to barbecue to bring community together
April 22, 2019 The damage to the mosque. A Dundee mosque that was targeted by vandals last week is organising a community barbecue next Saturday. Organisers say the event, at […]
Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: Terror Group Is Identified and Death Toll Rises
By The New York Times April 22, 2019• The Sri Lankan police have arrested 24 people in connection with a series of devastating suicide bombings at hotels and churches on […]
France separates church and state. So who’s responsible for Notre Dame?
Source: The Washington Post By Emily Tamkin April 18 French President Emmanuel Macron wants Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, devastated in a fire on Monday, repaired in five years. But as crews […]
Malaysia investigates women who discussed their ‘dehijabbing’
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent Three women in Malaysia who held an event discussing their decision to stop wearing the hijab are being investigated by Malaysian Islamic authorities. The […]
Anzac commemoration should include Muslim contribution
Source: AMUST Posted by Bilal Cleland New Zealand, led by an outstanding Prime Minister, earned the respect of the world with its response to the Christchurch Massacre by a violent white […]
In touching obituary, woman who died of cancer at 35 celebrates life: “Damn, it was good”
Source: MSN News By Muri Assunção Life is good! The amazing attitude of a 35-year-old woman who died of cancer early this month will make you look at life differently — […]
Migration: A Mandate of Divine Communities
18th April 2019 With the historic shift to Islamabad of His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah […]
Hazrat Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafrulla Khan r.a. – Part IV
19th April 2019 Hazrat Chaudhry Sahibra was a companion of the Promised Messiahas, member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council, judge of the Federal Court of India, president of the International […]
The flag-bearer of Islam in the age of materialism
Another year of prosperity Atheism, as we know it today, finds its roots in the 15th century CE, but what marks its boom and zenith is unanimously agreed by historians, […]
Loving a country that doesn’t love you back
BY SANA AHMAD , (LAST UPDATED APRIL 3, 2019) The New Zealand massacre through the eyes of an Ahmedi abroad Ever since I moved abroad, I have felt it is […]
‘Peace shattered’: Calgary community shaken by Sri Lanka terror bombings
ALANNA SMITH & RYAN RUMBOLT, CALGARY HERALD Updated: April 21, 2019 Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels […]
The First Global Terrorists Were Anarchists in the 1890s
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By Maya Jasanoff April 29, 2016 The funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditAlamy ImageThe funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditCreditAlamy CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It was past dark on a February afternoon in 1894 when a keeper at Greenwich […]
Iraq’s oldest Christian town celebrates Easter without Isis
Maundy Thursday mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian town of Hamdaniya. Photograph: Achilleas Zavallis/The Guardian Hamdaniya has been reclaimed from the extremists who made […]