Save Gaza from Greenblatt
Mar 14,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It was dubbed as a meeting to save Gaza. The meeting summoned by the US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt was called a […]
Why did Abbas blow his fuse?
Mar 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It can be argued that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blew his fuse on Monday, when he insulting US Ambassador to Israel David […]
Allowing anti-diversity voices to divide humanity is profoundly dangerous — King of Jordan
Mar 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah takes part in a question-answer session at a meeting with students in The Hague on Tuesday (Photo courtesy of Royal […]
Religious leaders explore link between faith, development, humanitarian work
By Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto – Mar 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Prince Hassan, Grand Mufti Mohammad Khalayleh, Bishop Elias Toume, KAICIID Senior Adviser Mohamed Abu Nimer, German Deputy Ambassador Ralf […]
Why are politicians comparing everything to the Second World War?
By contrast, the Russians have avoided all mention of their own World Wars – an infinitely greater sacrifice in the second than all the other allies put together – and have shrewdly marketed their response and RT’s propaganda around our own failure to ask obvious questions Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday […]
NAUROZ CELEBRATED
People is Kashmir usually start plantation from this day. It is also expected that light to moderate rains would occur on this day. It also happened on Wednesday as the festival was being celebrated. MUDASIR YAQOOB Srinagar, Publish Date: Mar 22 2018 Nauroz was celebrated across the state with zeal […]
Today is the Anniversary of Goethe – Was He a Muslim?
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (/ˈɡɜːrtə/;[1][2][3] German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ( listen); 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was […]
‘Christianity as default is gone’: the rise of a non-Christian Europe
Guardian: Europe’s march towards a post-Christian society has been starkly illustrated by research showing a majority of young people in a dozen countries do not follow a religion. The survey of 16- to 29-year-olds found the Czech Republic is the least religious country in Europe, with 91% of that age group […]
Navroz Mubarak: Interesting facts about the Parsi New Year
Updated: Mar 21, 2018 | 09:25 IST | Times Now Digital Parsis pray at a temple on occasion of Parsi New Year ‘Navroz’ in Mumbai (File pic) | Photo […]
In Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, anger over Syria war finds a stage
Daren Butler DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Turkish Kurds turned an annual cultural festival into a rare mass political protest on Wednesday against the government’s two-month-old […]
International Women’s Day
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane and Cem Nizamoglu To celebrate Women’s Day on 8th March, no way is better than reproducing a collection of articles written by FSTC scholars and associates on the achievements of women in Muslim Heritage in various fields. We focused in our work on this topic of contributions made by women in […]
Trump praises US military sales in talks with Saudi crown prince
By Reuters – Mar 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (centre) speaks alongside members of his delegation during a lunch meeting with US President Donald […]
‘Global communities should be empowered to live together’ – King of Jordan
By JT – Mar 21,2018 – Last updated at Mar 21,2018 0 2 googleplus0 0 2 His Majesty King Abdullah delivers a speech at a meeting with around 300 Dutch […]
Italy seizes rescue ship that stopped migrants’ return to Libya
Reuters International This content was published on March 19, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Migrants wait to disembark from Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo, Italy, March […]
Trump’s back-to-back visitors unlikely to solve Gulf dispute
Reuters International This content was published on March 16, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump departs after attending a Friends of Ireland event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March […]
Coming to Switzerland : First group of vulnerable refugees from Libya to arrive in April
By Julia Crawford This content was published on March 21, 2018 The first group of vulnerable refugees to arrive in Switzerland from Libya are mostly single women (Keystone) […]
Pakistan: Of mullahs and mullahism
BY AMINAH SUHAIL QURESHI Who will answer these questions? Show contempt or lack of reverence to God and you are a blasphemer. Speak anything sacrilegious in nature against a person or thing revered in a particular religion and you are a blasphemer. These two sentences define all the possible literal dimensions of blasphemy, […]
The secret science that rules crowds
Source: BBC News By Christine Ro 21 March 2018 Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred […]
Austin bombings: Suspect dead after detonating device, police say
Source: BBC News A suspect linked with a series of deadly parcel bombs targeting Austin, Texas, is dead after a major police operation, officials say. The suspect was killed after […]
Who Owns the Vikings? Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols
Source: The New York Times By RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILL and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL Photo A worshiper holding Thor’s hammer at a pagan ceremony in Sweden conducted by the Nordic Asa Community. CreditJasper Juinen for The […]