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 is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Source: The Washington Post By Erin Cunningham KONYA, Turkey — Nestled in Turkey’s Anatolian heartland, Konya is both an economic boomtown and a bastion of conservatism — a modern Turkish city with deep Islamic […]
Source: BBC News By Sarah McDermott BBC World Service At the age of 12, Sarah Thomas found out that her father – who she’d never known – was a Roman […]
By: Nil Sari Music has been used as a mean of therapy through the centuries to counter all kinds of disorders by various peoples. Physicians and musicians in the Ottoman […]
Source: The Beginning By Saira A. Nizami January 2014 Years on, nothing has changed. Those who chant Qadri’s name stay the same and those who condemn this act and ask […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A Syrian man making a living by collecting recyclable garbage in an eastern Turkish city was hailed for taking gold jewelry he found in a dumpster to […]
Fadi Esber | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018 In his magnum opus “Strategic Depth,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top foreign policy adviser Ahmet Davutoglu predicted that one day popular uprisings would […]
Ray Hanania | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018 There is no boundary for Israel’s atrocities; a lesson Arabs should understand and take into account when addressing Israel’s political actions. To Israel, no lie is too small to advocate, and they will defend their lies to the extreme. To Israel, […]
Saudi Arabia TARIQ AL-THAQAFI | Published — Friday 29 December 2017 MAKKAH: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque urged worshippers and […]
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018 The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and […]
By MEGAN SPECIAJAN. 3, 2018 Palestinians last year unloaded sacks of food aid provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for refugees in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. […]
Reuters International This content was published on January 4, 2018 Women stand next to policemen as they wait to check their names on the draft list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at an NRC centre in Chandamari village in Goalpara district, in the northeastern state of […]
This content was published on January 1, 2018 The rules overseeing Swiss citizenship are being made more uniform across Switzerland, but are also becoming tougher (Keystone) From January 1, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Catholic Church does not allow women priests and hardly any Muslim group or sect allows for women […]
Source: BBC News In a surprise move, Ethiopia’s prime minister has announced the release of political prisoners and the closure of a notorious detention centre, allegedly used as a torture […]
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Source: BBC News Berlin authorities are the target of ridicule and disbelief after nine prisoners escaped or absconded from one prison in the space of five days. Six remain on […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN October 20, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Those who dabble in learning a new language sometimes find that alcohol — in moderation — helps […]