Israel charges Palestinian teenager in viral ‘slap video’
AFP | Published — Monday 1 January 2018 Jerusalem: Israeli authorities have filed charges against a Palestinian woman after a video showing her and her cousin slapping and kicking […]
Pakistan man exonerated after serving 9 years for blasphemy
Source: ABC news By ZARAR KHAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pakistan’s supreme court exonerated a man convicted of blasphemy after he served nine years of a life sentence in prison. A two-judge panel of the […]
Fatwa: Should Muslims celebrate New Year?
Mike Ghouse, Contributor Mike Ghouse is committed to build a cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. 12/29/2017 A majority of Muslims celebrate New Year’s Eve like a majority of people in every group. However the orthodoxies in most faiths shun the celebrations. They falsely equate […]
Happy New Year and What is the Muslim Times Doing for You
The Muslim Times is promoting universal brotherhood and sisterhood in a world, which is divided by nationalism, religion, race, social class, gender and last but not the least, obfuscation created […]
There’s more than Alwaleed’s empire at stake
By Bloomberg News – December 30, 2017 In Photo: Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal at London’s High Court Almost two months into it, Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on corruption is […]
Saudi squeeze on Prince Alwaleed has more at stake than money
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Co. of Saudi Arabia, during an Economist magazine conference in Athens in 2014. (Panagio/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) Alaa Shahine , Glen CareyBloomberg Almost two months […]
Likud party calls for de-facto annexation of Israeli settlements
Reuters International This content was published on December 31, 2017 Party supporters demonstrate during a Likud Central Committee meeting in Airport City, Israel December 31, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (reuters_tickers) […]
Ahmadiyya Youth on Clean-Up Campaign tomorrow
Posted by Indian Newslink Date: December 31, 2017 Supplied Content (Edited) Auckland, December 31, 2017 While many New Zealanders will be enjoying ‘Survivors’ Breakfast’ or going home after a long night out tomorrow, a group of youngsters will take to parks and streets as a part of their annual cleaning […]
UN leader issues ‘red alert’ for unity in 2018
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS: The secretary-general of the United Nations is issuing a “red alert” for more unity in 2018 after what he calls a year of setbacks. Antonio Guterres said Sunday that nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise. He said inequality is growing, climate change is accelerating and […]
Yes, we should all have to pay for drunk tanks whether we drink alcohol or not, and here’s why
We live in a culture which laughs off alcoholism and castigates veganism and ‘clean living’, and we’re all responsible for it Shappi Khorsandi @ShappiKhorsandi I’m in no position to judge […]
Double-talks on the Syrian crisis
Dec 30,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi Seasoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that the US must withdraw its remaining soldiers from Syria, estimated to be no more than 2,000 deployed in and around the recently liberated Raqqa region, now that the war against Daesh has ended. Fair enough. Russian President Vladamir Putin has deployed […]
Defining what it means to be religious
Source: Jordan Times By James J. Zogby Ever since we learned that 80 per cent of self-described “born-again” Christians supported Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, there has been a discussion […]
2017 is the year global terror became mainstream. This is what we’re doing to tackle it
The two ends of the ‘extremism spectrum’ – Isis and the far right – are similar and feed off each other. Some would say they even need each other to function, […]
1965 James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley About Racism in USA
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles and videos to refute racism.
Treated ‘worse than animals’: thousands of Indian women feared trapped in ashrams
Source: The Guardian By Michael Safi in Delhi Delhi authorities say thousands more women could be living in the estimated 300 properties linked to the group Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya nationwide. Photograph: […]
Do secularism and gender equality really go hand in hand?
Source: The Guardian Gender inequality is increasing. According to a new study by the World Economic Forum, it will now take 100 years to close the global gender gap, up from […]
Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim […]
Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found
Source: BBC News By Erin Craig 19 July 2017 This is an outsized land for outsized legends. No roads, no permanent buildings; just unfurling sky, tufted dry grass and streaming […]