Spreading the peaceful message- Love for All
Tuesday, 5 February 2019 -\ FRIENDS and neighbours of Haslemere’s Jamia Ahmadiyya UK college of modern languages and theology dropped in for an open day on Saturday (Jan 26) to […]
Dutch former anti-Muslim politician converts to Islam
Source: Politico By ELINE SCHAART A former member of Geert Wilders’ far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam. Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch […]
Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’
Source: Reuters By Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR (Reuters) – U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned […]
U.S. calls on countries to take Islamic State prisoners from Syria
Source: Reuters By Lesley Wroughton, Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday called on countries to take in foreign fighters captured by America’s Kurdish allies in Syria, […]
Jews, evangelicals reach out to Sunni Gulf Arab leaders
Source: Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Against the backdrop of the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula is an interfaith conference that […]
Al-Azhar’s Imam calls on Muslims in the Middle East to ’embrace’ Christians
Source: Reuters ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar mosque and university, called on Muslims in the Middle East to “embrace” local Christian communities. […]
Five things to know about religious freedom in the United Arab Emirates
Source: The Washington Post By Tamer El-Ghobashy In the first visit by a sitting pope to the Arabian Peninsula, Pope Francis delivered on Tuesday a Mass for an estimated 180,000 people […]
Bible reading in public schools has been a divisive issue – and this old culture war is starting again
Source: The Conversation Officials in six states, including populous ones such as Virginia and Florida, are considering bills permitting the study of the Bible in classrooms. Proponents of these bills insist that the Bible […]
‘I Had No Options’: The Rohingya Man Who Smuggled Himself
Source: The Atlantic By TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN The reporting for this article was supported by The Masthead, The Atlantic’s membership program. Learn more. YANGON, Myanmar—By Kamal’s own admission, his family used to be […]
Why 2019 could be the worst year for the Palestinians
Feb 06,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF If 2018 was a particularly bad year for Palestinians, in the wake of a series of unilateral US administration decisions that included […]
Arab League reverses decision on Syria
Feb 06,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Eight years ago, the Arab League suspended Syria’s membership as it did Libya’s. Both decisions were wrong, not just because they […]
Racism against Arab Israelis will reach unprecedented levels by Israel’s April elections – and the world won’t care
Issues like racial discrimination were once kept in check by the left in Israel and the Jewish diaspora in countries like the United States. But that backlash seems to have […]
Saint Francis Of Assisi And Islam
Our Favorite Christian Prayer:http://t.co/4u1oCf5I8i pic.twitter.com/f8UnMW93KX — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) January 3, 2015 Source: Huffington Post By Doctor David Liepert, who is a convert to Islam and is an anesthesiologist […]
The Concept of Justice in Islam by Sir Zafrulla Khan
Author: Sir Zafrulla Khan The Quran has at various places reiterated this principle. And the recompense of an injury is a penalty the like thereof; but whoso forgives and his […]
Franklin Graham Comes Up With A Brazen New Way To Excuse 8,000+ Trump Lies
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza The evangelical leader refuses to even admit that the president has lied. President Donald Trump has made more than 8,000 “false or misleading claims” […]
Former lawmaker from far-right Dutch party PVV becomes Muslim after writing anti-Islam book
Source: Daily Sabah A former far-right Dutch politician announced on Monday that he has converted to Islam. Writing a book on Islam changed the views of Joram van Klaveren, 39, […]
How Netanyahu is freezing out the international community
Chris Doyle February 04, 2019 From the outset of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the question of Palestine has been an international issue. International actors inserted the conflict into the region, with […]
US asks nations to repatriate militants as they leave Syria
By AFP – Feb 04,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Civilians fleeing fighting between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Daesh terrorists in the frontline Syrian village of Baghuz, await to be screened […]
Warmer Jordanian-Iraqi relations
Feb 04,2019 -JORDAN TIMES Jordanian-Iraqi relations got a strong boost on Saturday, when Prime Minister Omar Razzaz and his Iraqi counterpart Adel Abdul Mahdi and their respective high-level accompanying delegations […]
Pope calls for end to wars in Middle East in Gulf trip
By AFP – Feb 05,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Pope Francis shakes hands with Grand Imam of Al Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb after signing a document on fighting extremism, during […]