Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An attorney for the founder of a mystical, New Age version of Shiite Islam says an Iranian court has sentenced his client to death. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei tells The Associated Press that the court sentenced Mohammad Ali Taheri to death on charges of […]
Source: Associated Press By AMIR VAHDAT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just a couple of weeks into her appointment, the new Iranian vice president’s decision to abandon her fashion style for […]
Source: Reuters BY Adnan Abidi ROHTAK, India (Reuters) – An Indian judge sentenced a self-styled “godman”, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last […]
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — For three decades, Hezbollah maintained a singular focus as a Lebanese military group fighting Israel. It built a network of bunkers and […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Abby Sewell Reem Kaedbey was never very religious. She’s not even sure there is a God. But when it came to marriage, she never had […]
Source: The New York Times Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas. By SABRINA TAVERNISE Photographs by ETHAN TATE for The New York Times AUGUST […]
After public pressure Joel Osteen has seen the light, and will now open his spacious 16,800-seat megachurch to hurricane refugees. Osteen’s megachurch, Lakewood Church, is located near downtown Houston, and would make an ideal refugee center from those trying to escape the flooding. However, the 16,800 seat megachurch was closed during and […]
By ALEX BALLINGALL thestar.com Ottawa Bureau Tues., Aug. 29, 2017 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/29/liberal-mp-offered-woman-100k-to-keep-quiet-about-sexual-harassment-claim-father-alleges.html?source=newsletter&_ctids=2444%7cQverpg%2fSebz+Rznvy%7c382%7c33952%7c39000&_ctdigest=rC1fyiO%2byMXiIFEo%2f4agRQ The father of a 24-year-old woman who worked for Calgary Liberal MP Darshan Kang said Kang offered a series of payments to prevent her from sharing harassment allegations with her parents. Liberal MP Darshan Kang did not respond to requests […]
Akshay Kumar is earning plenty of praise from Hollywood since his film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha released. https://images.dawn.com/news/1178309 In an interview with Hindustan Times, Matt Damon praised the Bollywood actor for highlighting an important issue plaguing India. “It’s great to have stars like Akshay and films like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha spotlighting the open defecation […]
Source: ABNA Ayatollah Khamenei pointed out: We do not have an Islamic society. We do not even have an Islamic government. We managed to create an Islamic revolution, that is, a revolutionary movement. We managed to create an Islamic system based on that revolution. These are important things we gained […]
Source: Independent 40 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, passed out food, water, and other supplies in Houston, according to organisers. Both groups expect to gain more volunteers from surrounding cities when the roadways open up. Madeel Abdullah, director of humanitarian affairs for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, said more than 700 members […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times How many stones do you have to use to hit Satan during Hajj? Does Satan actually exist and […]
On Saturday 26 August 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed an audience of around 800 dignitaries and guests on the second day of the 42nd Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany. At […]
Hajj 2018 began in the evening of Sunday, August 19 and ends in the evening of Friday, August 24. It should be a time to meditate on the universal brotherhood […]
Reuters International AUGUST 28, 2017 A Muslim pilgrim prays in the Hera cave, where Muslims believe Prophet Mohammad received the first words of the Koran in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (reuters_tickers) By Mahmoud Mourad MECCA (Reuters) – Saudi health officials […]
SOUTH Korea has dropped a series of bombs near the North’s border in a terrifying response to their missile launch. By Jamie Micklethwaite / Published 29th August 2017 The bombing was ordered just hours after North Korea launched three ballistic missiles, with one flying over northern Japan. Four F15K fighter […]
Reuters International AUGUST 29, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C), and Chad President Idriss Deby, (2ndR) attend a meeting with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini (L) at […]
Guardian: A French court has ruled that schools should provide an alternative to pork school lunches in the interest of Muslim and Jewish children who do not eat the meat. Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France Read more The decision came after a rightwing local authority stopped […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Aug 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Relations between Jordan and Syria are moving in a positive direction in light of new realities in Syria in the field and change in the tone of regional and international powers on how to deal with the situation in […]
Aug 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The apparently imminent fall of the city of Tal Afar to the Iraqi forces backed by local militias, notably Hashed Al Shaabi, so soon after the recapture of Mosul is an added evidence that Daesh’s days in Iraq are now numbered. Tal Afar, strategically […]