By Barry Ellsworth RENTON. Ont. Three Muslim workers have filed a human rights complaint alleging Islamophobia after they were fired from a maintenance project in western Canada, Canadian media reported Thursday. Amino Rashid told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that she and two of her colleagues were dismissed from a […]
Texas Governor Signs Christians First ‘Religious Freedom’ Adoption Law June 16, 2017 by Michael Stone 18 Comments New adoption law allows discrimination against non-Christians: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law legislation allowing publicly funded agencies to deny non-Christians the ability to adopt a child in need. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/06/texas-governor-signs-christians-first-religious-freedom-adoption-law/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 Reuters reports: The Texas governor […]
Source: BBC By Sophia Smith Galer 12 June 2017 If vegetarianism was adopted by everyone by 2050, the world would have about seven million fewer deaths every year – and […]
Source: Time BY Shawn Carter Jun 16, 2017 Carter, known as Jay Z, is a lauded recording artist, philanthropist and father Seventeen years ago I made a song, “Guilty Until […]
Source: Motto By Melinda Gates Melinda Gates is a businesswoman and philanthropist. She is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. June 16, 2017 ‘His need to uncover the […]
Source: BBC News A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 58 lives, officials say. Most died while trying to flee the Pedrógão Grande area, 50 km (30 […]
Source: Wikipedia Islamic views on evolution are diverse, ranging from theistic evolution to Old Earth creationism.[1] Most Muslims around the world believe “humans and other living things have evolved over […]
Source: Pew Research Center The survey asked Muslims about their views on various dimensions of contemporary life. Muslims see few tensions between their faith and life in the modern world. […]
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 A Syrian boy runs with the others, who say they are returning to Syria ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, near the Turkish Cilvegozu border gate, located opposite of Syrian crossing point Bab al-Hawa in Reyhanli, in the southern Hatay province, Turkey, June 15, 2017. […]
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The dispute between Saudi Arabia/United Arab Emirates and Qatar has added major new developments and regional dynamics to existing dramatic situations across the Middle East — especially in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. Diving deep into any of these situations inevitably […]
AFP news@thelocal.ch 17 June 2017 The talks are aimed at ending a war that has killed more than 320,000 people since 2011. Photo: Delil Suleiman/AFP A fresh round of UN-sponsored Syria peace talks will begin on July 10th in Geneva, the UN envoy said Saturday, amid slim hopes for progress […]
Dr. Rana Dajani is Associate professor of Molecular Biology in Jordan University. The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about biological evolution and religion. This provides for the most […]
Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days — from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — Seyran Ates’ vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together — women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight […]
Source: The Guardian BY Kate Connolly in Berlin The Nicht Mit Uns – or Not With Us – march has been planned as opposition to violence in the name of […]
Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and SUHASINI RAJ NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Thursday called on the government to answer charges that stringent new restrictions […]
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov and Ahmed Rasheed | MOSCOW/BAGHDAD Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike in […]
Source: Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man already charged with leaving recorded threatening messages at a mosque will also be charged with a federal hate crime. Court records […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have great respect for Javed Ahmad Ghamidi for his moderate views on host of issues. Only […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 15, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) Several progressive Catholic groups are launching an initiative aimed at giving lay Catholics and clergy across […]