Lennox Vs. Dawkins Debate – Has Science Buried God?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I am a theist and so emotionally with Lennox. Yet, happy to report that Dawkins, at least knocks […]
What Can we Learn from Bill Cosby’s Trial: Benefit of Doubt Goes to the Accused?
Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby’s criminal trial as jury deadlocks Source: CNN Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 10:52 a.m. ET] The judge in the Bill Cosby trial declared […]
Sir David Attenborough and President Obama: The Full Interview About Global Warming
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House in 2015.
Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals
Source: Vancour Sun By Douglas Todd Creationism, a religious world view that adamantly rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, is on the rise among evangelical Protestants and most of the […]
USA: Pakistan rape victim attends US opera she inspired
Fifteen years after her gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal, but also her courage, through a US opera inspired by her story. The opera, by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Susan Yankowitz, recounts Mai’s 2002 rape and her decision […]
Trump confirms he is under investigation over Comey sacking
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was under investigation for firing the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The probe seeks to determine whether the former FBI chief James Comey was fired to stop him from holding an inquiry into alleged Russian […]
Europeans see Germany favourably, but think it has too much power
Source: The Local A large majority of Europeans have a positive view of Germany, while seeing Berlin as still having too much power in EU affairs, a new survey shows. The Pew Research Centre study released on Thursday showed that 71 percent of respondents outside of Germany had a favourable view of […]
Friday Sermon 16th June 2017
The Promised Messiah (as) has said that in order to have true Taqwa, one must instill all good morals in one’s self. Therefore, a believer should try to adopt all […]
Taboo-breaking liberal mosque opens in Berlin
Source:The Local With a mission to spread a liberal form of Islam, a mosque where men and women pray side by side has opened its doors in Berlin, complete with female imams. The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is greatest’) resonated through the crowded Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque Friday as US-Malaysian Ani Zonneveld, […]
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl dies
Source:CNN German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87. Kohl served as chancellor for 16 years — from 1982 to 1998 — and was Germany’s longest-serving leader since 1945. He […]
US sailors missing after Navy destroyer collision off Japan
Source: CNN Seven US sailors are missing and the commanding officer of a US destroyer is among the injured after the warship collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan, the US Navy said. The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered damage to its starboard side above and below […]
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways
Source: National geographic In the fall of 1989 Princeton University welcomed into its freshman class a young man named Alexi Santana, whose life story the admissions committee had found extraordinarily compelling. He had barely received any formal schooling. He had spent his adolescence almost entirely on his own, living outdoors […]
Arab world’s coming challenges
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor […]
Rules of Fasting
Beginning the month of Ramadhan Abu Huraira relates that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: start the month after sighting the new moon and end it at the next sighting. If you are unable to observe it by reason of the sky being […]
Laylatul Qadr – Worship Plan to Maximise the Last 10 Nights of Ramadan!
Allah says in the Qur’an: The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [Qur’an: 97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last […]
The Last Ten Nights and Days of Ramadan and Laila-tul-Qadr – A Checklist
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: This Ramadan Learn Quran from 50 Translations, Rather Than Just One Although the immense blessings of Ramadan are well known, the last ten nights of Ramadan are even more important and even more blessed than the rest of Ramadan. In these ten nights is […]
Exclusive – U.S. nears decisions on resettlement of Australian-held refugees
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 FILE PHOTO – A sign adorns the security fence near shelters inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Behrouz Boochani/Handout via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The United States will tell dozens of refugees […]
Russia’s military says it may have killed Islamic State leader; West, Iraq sceptical
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet […]
Watch: How Muslims awake for Ramadan helped save lives in London tower blaze
Londoners have said Muslims awake for Ramadan may have helped save a lot of lives Smoke and flames billow from a massive fire that raged in a 27-floor high-rise apartment building in London, WImage Credit: AP People react near a tower block severely damaged by a serious fire, in north […]
Plastic to outweigh fish in the sea if waste keeps flowing
More than 5tr pieces of plastic floating in world’s oceans, with more hidden in the guts of marine creatures A beach in the Azores is pictured littered with plastic garbage, […]