By AFP – Aug 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Muslims pray at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual Hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) MECCA, Saudi Arabia — More than 2 million Muslims from around the world began the Hajj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites […]
By HARI KUMAR and JEFFREY GETTLEMANAUG. 30, 2017 NYTimes.com NEW DELHI — The chief of the Indian medical college where dozens of sick children died this month after the oxygen supply ran out has been arrested on charges of culpable homicide, the Indian authorities have said. Dr. Rajiv Mishra, who had been chief of Baba […]
Source: BBC Researchers have discovered 381 new species during a two-year study in the Amazon region. The report by the WWF conservation body and Brazil’s Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development said that […]
Eid Mubarak! Sending my best wishes to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha & the end of the Hajj today. https://t.co/UjUx5gg0dE pic.twitter.com/4gsVb3gA0a — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 31, 2017 Suggested reading and […]
Aug 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The overwhelming majority of takfiri men who in the past two years mounted attacks against civilians in France, Belgium and Spain have been of Moroccan and Tunisian origin. Their hostility is difficult to explain as these North African countries have escaped the mayhem […]
Aug 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Israeli occupation forces demolished Palestinian schools in four West Bank communities ahead of the new scholastic year, depriving several hundred children of proper classrooms and forcing some to meet under the sun or in makeshift tents. All the schools were destroyed under the […]
Malaysia did not arrive at this point by accident: we Malaysians have allowed it to happen. We have allowed it through collusion and silence, and by our refusal to venture outside of our comfort zone Selina Siak Chin Yoke Malaysia gained independence from British rule in 1957 Getty Today Malaysia […]
Safeguarding children is more at risk from this underfunding than it is from cultural mismatches Rabina Khan If you visit a primary school in London’s East End, the chances are you will see a diverse community of children bonding with each other, happily learning together and eating fish fingers alongside […]
Instead of serious political advice, the West, especially the US and their proxy Arab allies in the Gulf, then poured weapons into Syria – enough arms to destroy Syria but not enough to overthrow the regime, as one ex-rebel told me Robert Fisk @indyvoices 23 comments Bashar al-Assad has clung […]
Source: Newsweek One of the most important dates in the Islamic calendar is Eid al-Adha (‘Festival of Sacrifice.’) Also known as the Greater Eid, the day comes at the end […]
Source: Asia Times “We are never out of diplomatic solutions,” Mattis said before a meeting with his South Korean counterpart at the Pentagon. “We continue to work together, and the minister and I share a responsibility to provide for the protection of our nations, our populations and our interests.” The […]
The firebombing of a Muslim leader’s car in his Quebec City driveway as his family slept at home has his community demanding action and provincial political leaders wondering what they must do to clamp down on emboldened right-wing zealots. Mohamed Labidi, president of the Centre culturel islamique de Québec, right, shakes hands […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This video is in Urdu, so this post will make sense to only those who know both Urdu […]
Source: Pew Research Center For American Muslims, being highly religious does not necessarily translate into acceptance of traditional notions of Islam. While many U.S. Muslims say they attend mosque and […]
Source: BBC News BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi Government archaeologists reject claim the structure was built by Hindus and that they should be allowed to worship there Claims that the Taj Mahal […]
Source: Huffington Post By Nina Golgowski As many Houston businesses close down amid widespread flooding, one local businessman has opened his furniture stores as shelter to hundreds of displaced Texans. […]
Source: Huffington Post Human beings are a species that constantly look for order and reason in the universe (we’re looking at you Neil Degrasse Tyson). For centuries, many have credited various […]
Source: Huffington Post As of yet, only one pastor has resigned from Trump’s evangelical council, and this Tuesday, many evangelical pastors signed the Nashville Statement, which in its fifteen articles condemn […]
Source: Time BY Nomaan Merchant & Juan Lozano / AP Updated: 1:28 AM ET | Originally published: Aug 29, 2017 (HOUSTON) — With its flood defenses strained, the crippled city […]
Source: Time The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Harvey’s destruction is “instant karma” for Texas because it voted Republican. Sociology […]