Israeli gunfire in spotlight after hundreds wounded, 44 killed in Gaza
By AFP – Apr 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES British vascular surgeon John Wolfe, who was invited to Gaza by the International Committee of the Red Cross, checks a wounded Palestinian […]
Starbucks case highlights need to continue fight against discrimination
Apr 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi The case of the two “black Americans” who were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks coffee shop on April 12 caught my […]
Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) and Humanity First join hands for Humanitarian Project in Madagascar.
Source: Dr Mohammad Sarfraz Baloch On 28.04.2018 it was an extremely inspiring and motivational atmosphere at departure lounge of Frankfurt International Airport. A team provided by Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Association MAMO, comprising of Dr Mohammad Mohsin Bhatti, Doctor Irfan Azam, Dr Hafiz Slman Ahmad Rana and Tariq Karim Arif of […]
Canada: Poet Rupi Kaur comes full circle with Brampton Performance
At the Rose Theatre in Brampton on Thursday April 26th Brampton, Ontario On Thursday night Aril 26th, in Brampton, Rupi Kaur returned to the same stage she’d walked across at her high-school graduation. Instead of a diploma, she now held her two books of bestselling poetry and the attention of […]
A court ruling makes it harder for faith-based employers to discriminate
Source: The Economist IT IS a problem that arises in every liberal democracy that upholds liberty of belief (and hence, the freedom of religious bodies to manage their own affairs) […]
Supporters of El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Foil Efforts to Soften It
Source: The New York Times By ELISABETH MALKIN Demonstrators participated in a march against abortion in San Salvador earlier this month.CreditFred Ramos for The New York Times MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s national legislature adjourned Thursday without voting on proposals to allow exceptions to the country’s total ban on abortion, thwarting […]
A Muslim and a Hindu thought they could be a couple. Then came the ‘love jihad’ hit list.
Source: The Washington Post By Annie Gowen KOLKATA, India — The 21-year-old Hindu college student was having a quiet breakfast with her mother when her phone pinged with a terrifying message. Her […]
Kenya bans lesbian love story film ‘Rafiki’ set to open at Cannes
Source: Reuters By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities have banned a film that tells the love story of two women on the grounds that it promotes lesbianism but […]
US-owned Christian radio station in Rwanda shut down for saying women are evil
Source: CNN By Munachim Amah, CNN (CNN)A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that […]
More than 70 countries commit to combat terror financing
Source: Associated Press By SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — More than 70 countries committed Thursday to bolster efforts in the fight against terrorism financing associated with the Islamic State group and al-Qaida. Participants at an international conference in Paris agreed to “fully criminalize” terror financing through effective and proportionate sanctions […]
UNHCR programme: Syrian refugees ‘resettle in’ to Switzerland
By Roger Wehrli (images and text) Day in the life of refugees This content was published on April 28, 2018 The Monjids – a family of four – are […]
The inter-Korean summit and the long road to peace
SADIK ÜNAY @sadikunay As Presidents Moon and Kim conduct early rounds of peace negotiations, the issues of denuclearization and drawing up a formal peace treaty to officially end […]
Zakat: Trickle-up economics! (from the Turkish press)
HATEM BAZIAN @hatembazian The commentaries on Quranic and Hadith texts extol the benefits of Zakat and provide an extensive rationalization for its institution as a pillar of Islam. Some benefits include Zakat’s impacts on fostering social cohesion, providing a safety net for the poor, and forcing capital circulation in […]
Erdoğan says Kanal Istanbul is a post-election priority
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that the first initiative of his government after winning elections would be the construction of Kanal Istanbul, an […]
Ending war in Syria possible without outside intervention
Apr 19,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power A total of 500,000 dead and counting. President Bashar Assad is going full blast at reducing the parts of his country still standing, […]
Will America go to war?
Apr 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump. […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Slovenia did it in spite lot of opposition
Source: Mr Talha Ahmad, President AMJ Slovenia The Slovenian Book Days (Slovenski dnevi knjige) is an event that takes places every year in April across the whole country. The Slovenian Book Days is a traditional festival in Slovenia, each year attracting many publishing houses and thousands of visitors. The annual […]
The Times’ Islamophobic coverage is shocking but not surprising
Source: CT The Times may not be the ‘paper of record’ that it undoubtedly was prior to Rupert Murdoch’s takeover in 1981. But it is still widely regarded as the respectable newspaper to take and be seen with by ordinary people outside the beltway of those in the know about […]
Ankara edging back to Washington’s side in Syria,
Source: Asia Times: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan suggested last weekend that the country’s ongoing operation to cut out a swash of Kurdish-dominated Syrian territory could stop short of the northeast, in contrast to recent proclamations. Those remarks, along with Ankara’s immediate public support for US-led airstrikes on targets linked to […]
North and South Korea vow to end the Korean War in historic accord
Source: CNN With one step, Kim Jong Un just made history 02:53 Ilsan, South Korea (CNN)The leaders of North and South Korea have committed themselves to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to bring a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased. In […]