Nov 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab In a moving ceremony held at the Free Evangelical Church in Amman’s Khalda neighbourhood on November 14, members of evangelical churches in Palestine and Jordan announced the creation of a unified coordinating alliance, made up of: the Council of Local Evangelical Churches […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Nov 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES The Red Sea- Dead Sea project is planned to generate more water for Jordan and save the Dead Sea (Photo courtesy […]
Source: BBC News Why would anyone donate their eggs to help a stranger have a child? Elaine Chong explains her reasons. I first heard about egg donation when I was […]
Source: CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)More than 16,000 scientists from 184 countries have published a second warning to humanity advising that we need to change our wicked ways to help […]
Source: The New Yorker By Christina Binkley November 13, 2017 Mattel’s Barbie modelled on the American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has muscular legs and wears a hijab. Photograph courtesy Mattel In 1959, the […]
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have in recent months detained up to 30 relatives of an exiled ethnic Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Kareem Shaheen and Gokce Saracoglu in Istanbul Bill allowing Muslim clerics to conduct civil marriages passed despite protests amid fears it could lead to more child brides President […]
Source: Associated Press By MENELAOS HADJICOTSIS NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — At over 60 meters (200 feet) high, the four black-coned minarets of the nearly completed Hala Sultan mosque tower over […]
Source: CNN By Julia Horowitz For the first time ever, Barbie will wear a hijab. Mattel (MAT), which makes Barbie, announced Monday that the latest doll in its “Shero” collection will be […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson November 13 Senate Republican leaders on Monday waged an urgent campaign to pressure GOP nominee Roy Moore to withdraw from the Alabama Senate […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I bet you that even the most informed Muslims, including the majority of the Muslim […]
Source: Associated Press By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON SEATTLE (AP) — On the same day a federal appeals court allowed part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to […]
Source: NPR By RYAN LUCAS Twitter The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau’s headquarters. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The number of hate crimes reported last […]
Washington, November 14http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-american-announces-to-run-for-us-congress/497462.html Indian-American Jitendra Diganvker has announced to run for the US House of Representatives in the 2018 Congressional elections. If elected by his Republican party in the primaries, Diganvker, a business owner and community worker, would be pitted against popular Democratic Incumbent Raja Krishnamoorthi from the 8th Congressional […]
By Tarek Fatah, Toronto SUN A professor of linguistics at the University of Ottawa, commenting on the so-called anti-Islamophobia motion, M103, has urged the Trudeau government “to start an international Commission on how to handle the violence in the Qur’an,” which, he says exists, without doubt. Professor Karim Achab gave his presentation […]
Source: RT On Monday over two dozen countries criticized Pakistan’s human rights record at the universal periodic review (UPR) of UN Human Rights Council. The criticism came not only from developed countries like the U.S. and U.K but also from developing countries like Ethiopia and Namibia. Majority of the countries […]
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Tuesday 14 November 2017 Whether or not the corruption scandals hounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lead to his sacking matters […]
The claim that Muslims have “too many children” is reliably powerful anywhere there’s a sizable Muslim immigrant or minority population. After fleeing from Burma, Noor Kayes holds her daughter in […]
Farah Elahi Twenty years ago, a report on Islamophobia described how stereotypes harm Muslims in Britain. Today, new research suggests things have got worse ‘The drip-drip demonising of Muslim communities […]
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. By Janna Anderson […]