Qatar demands difficult to meet, says US
Source: BBC News Some demands set by four Arab states on Qatar in return for lifting sanctions will be “difficult to meet”, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says. However, […]
Pakistan fuel tanker inferno kills at least 150
Source: BBC News A lorry carrying fuel has burst into flames near the Pakistani city of Ahmedpur East, killing at least 150 people, local officials say. Villagers had gathered, reportedly to collect fuel leaking from the crashed tanker, when it caught fire. Dozens are being treated in hospital. It appears […]
Restaurant owners offer free meals in Montreal, no catch
Source: CNN By Samira Said, CNN Montreal (CNN)A free meal and a friendly smile aren’t easy to come by. But a pair of Muslim immigrants changed that for some […]
Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War
Source: Time By Yuval Noah Harari Jun 23, 2017 IDEAS Harari is the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of […]
Extreme Heat Waves Will Change How We Live. We’re Not Ready
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Jun 23, 2017 Extreme heat struck across the Southwest U.S. this week, sending temperatures in Phoenix soaring to near 120°F and grounding airplanes that were […]
Eid Mubarak and What is the Muslim Times doing for You?
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:9/10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy Eid to all our readers, from the whole of our Editorial […]
Passions flare as Turkey excludes evolution from textbooks
Source: BBC News By Selin Girit BBC News, Istanbul Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionCharles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is set to be expunged from textbooks used by 14 and 15 year […]
J.K. Rowling Condemns Anti-Muslim Hate After Attack On London Mosque-Goers
Source: Huffington Post “Let’s talk about how the #FinsburyPark terrorist was radicalised.” By Claire Fallon GETTY / TWITTER J.K. Rowling wrote the (children’s fantasy) book about the damage caused by […]
Sikhs celebrate B.C. woman’s ‘inspiring’ appointment as first turbaned judge in Canada
By Lien Yeung, for CBC News Justice Palbinder Kaur Shergill appointed to B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster Sikhs from Canada to India are celebrating a B.C. woman’s historic appointment […]
NYTimes: President Trump list of Lies
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 JAN. 21 “I wasn’t a fan of Iraq. I didn’t want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)JAN. 21 “A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the […]
Arabia: Bomber planning to attack Grand Mosque blows himself up
DUBAI: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1443596/search-operations-saudi-security-forces-foil-terror-plot-grand-mosque/ Six foreign pilgrims were hurt on Friday in Saudi Arabia when a suicide bomber targeting Islam’s holiest site of Makkah blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said. The incident happened around the Grand Mosque, where hundreds of thousands of worshippers gathered for early afternoon prayers on the last Friday […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims working tirelessly to help Grenfell Tower victims
Source: Metro Young men from the Ahmadiyya community cooked and distributed meals to the survivors in the days following the horrendous blaze.And a group of Ahmadi women who are professional psychiatrists and skilled doctors were in place to support the survivors in light of the trauma, though this was not […]
Turkey Bans Teaching of Evolution and the Muslim Times’ Response
Turkey Bans Teaching of Evolution and the Muslim Times’ Response Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution. The subject has been cut […]
Impeachment
Source: Dawn All this supports Comey’s assertion that he was dismissed because he was investigating charges that “the Russians interfered in our elections” against Hillary Clinton and in favour of Trump. That web of ‘the Russian connection’ between Trump’s associates during and after the election campaign is for the recently […]
The abolitionist fighting to free Mauritania’s slaves
Source:CNN A modest office block squeezed between a doctor’s surgery and a south London housing project is an unlikely setting to find a man described on Time’s most recent 100 List as “an inspiration to thousands.” Yet there is much about Biram Dah Abeid, a prominent anti-slavery activist from the […]
DNA discovery reveals genetic history of ancient Egyptians
Source: CNN Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have […]
More than 100 feared buried in landslide in China
Source:CNN A landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan province buried more than 40 houses, the Chinese state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported Saturday. More than 100 people were unaccounted for after the landslide, which happened at 6 a.m. local time in Xinmo village in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, CCTV said. […]
Saudis foil attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca
Source> CNN Saudi security forces on Friday prevented an imminent attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the country’s Interior Ministry said on state-run TV. A suspect planning an attack on the mosque blew himself up in a nearby neighborhood when security forces surrounded a home where the man was […]
Turkey to stop teaching evolution in high school
Source: CNN By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution. The subject has been cut from the curriculum under […]
Canada: Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Plan to March in the Toronto Pride Parade
Far-right groups have invited the Jewish Defence League to join them in marching in the Toronto Pride parade on Sunday, carrying Islamophobic signs and “severed heads,” according to a public video posted on Facebook. http://torontoist.com/2017/06/anti-muslim-hate-groups-plan-march-toronto-pride-parade/ The video, posted to the personal Facebook page of the leader of the JDL’s Toronto chapter, Meir HaLevi (also known […]