Pope in Morocco: Walls, fear-mongering won’t stop migration
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and AMIRA EL MASAITI RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Pope Francis praised Morocco as a model of religious moderation and migrant welcome as he kicked […]
Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for years
Source: Reuters BY Charlotte Greenfield, Praveen Menon CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Weeks before a gunman killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, a man had threatened to burn copies of the Koran outside New Zealand […]
The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy
Source: The New York Times By Edward Wong JERUSALEM — When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down for an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network in a hotel in […]
Parents Need To Erase These Common Phrases From Their Vocabulary
Source: MSN News BY Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Jessica Booth This phrase may be okay to use when your tone is compassionate, but issues can arise if it comes off as angry […]
30-minute ‘divorce’ course becomes mandatory for couples with children in Denmark
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP COPENHAGEN Published05.04.2019 Parents in Denmark with children under the age of 18 who want to end their marriage must take a 30-minute online course. (AFP […]
Illegal migrants push for Europe amid tight border controls
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL Published 06.04.2019 A migrant woman and a girl wait next to a gendarme vehicle after a group of migrants were stopped on the road to […]
‘Erasing the poor’: Pakistanis feel crunch of rising prices
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 4, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A vendor with a pane of vegetable rolls and samosas, a traditional snack, walks past the sacks of grain […]
Israel’s Arab minority urged to boycott election over divisive law
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 5, 2019 FILE PHOTO: Ahmad Tibi, leader of the Ta’al party faction, is surrounded by supporters during an election campaign event in the […]
INVESTMENTS IN SWITZERLAND: Qatar said to be leading funder of mosques in Europe
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 5, 2019 The Museum of Islamic Civilisations, opened in 2016, is said to be one of five projects in Switzerland funded by […]
Exclusive: Only 6 percent of those subject to Trump travel ban granted U.S. waivers
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 5, 2019 FILE PHOTO: International passengers arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration’s […]
UK: Saudi female racer Reema Juffali set for F4 UK championship
LONDON: Saudi Arabian racing driver Reema Juffali is set to make her Formula 4 British Championship debut at Brands Hatch at the weekend. Juffali, 27, will be racing for defending champions Double R Racing with her teammates Louis Foster and Sebastian Alvarez. Having made her debut in racing in October 2018, a […]
Germany: Muslim fashion for women exhibition stirs controversy
Muslim head coverings have always been a controversial topic, as they embody so many issues, whether women’s rights worldwide or Western prejudice and discrimination against Muslims. Now that the first exhibition dedicated to fashion consciousness of women in Islam is opening at Frankfurt’s Museum Angwandte Kunst, the debate surrounding headscarves has been rekindled in Germany. Titled […]
USA: Teaching Muslim Values in Public Schools Rejected in California
BY MATTHEW VADUM April 4, 2019 Updated: April 4, 2019 The terrorism-linked CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations recently suffered a rare defeat in its long-running push to mainstream Muslim values in U.S. schools, when a federal lawsuit was settled. The group agreed to end its program in San Diego […]
Saudi Arabia has no intention of changing
President Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 14, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Jason Rezaian Global […]
Indonesia: Lombok tourism yet to bounce back after earthquake
News DeskThe Jakarta Post Jakarta / Tue, April 2, 2019 / Surfboard rental shops and surf schools line Selong Belanak Beach, which is just a 30-minute […]
Joel Osteen: Be Comfortable With Who You Are
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, optimism […]
Moderate Islam in the Maghreb: How US foreign policy shapes Islamist contention
April 4, 2019 Since the beginning of the U.S-led war on terror, a handful of Muslim-majority states have begun to brand themselves on the international stage as a source of […]
From the ashes of genocide, Islam rises in Rwanda
MÜCAHID DURMAZ A handful of Muslims took a stand during the hundred days of slaughter. Their stance inspired thousands of Rwandans to become Muslim in what was once called Africa’s most Catholic country. “I was a Catholic pastor before genocide,” Matabaro Sulaiman told TRT World on a chilly Thursday night […]
Beaten but Not Defeated: Islamic State Plans Next Move After Loss of ‘Caliphate’
In the desert between Iraq and Syria, mostly Kurdish forces have seized the last remaining pocket of the Islamic State’s once sprawling dominion. But while the terrorists may have capitulated […]
From the Web to Real LifeThe Growing Threat of Online-Bred Right-Wing Extremism
The gunman who killed 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand is being celebrated by right-wing extremists around the world, including in Germany. It is a sign of how the internet […]