The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about Religion & Science https://t.co/iH3XiH0UGB pic.twitter.com/FirrYmJ4an — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) January 22, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Written and collected by Zia H […]
Source: Guardian By Susan Carland, who is a lecturer in Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies Islam’s patriarchy and western feminism have said a lot. Now Muslim women who fight […]
Three Presiding Judges in Ahok Blasphemy Trial Receive Promotions Jakarta. Three of the panel of five judges who presided in Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s blasphemy trial in the North Jakarta District Court, have been promoted. Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, who headed the panel, was appointed as a judge in the Denpasar High Court in […]
Jakarta. Tears streamed down the face of Nana Riwayatie as she spoke about the fate of her adoptive brother, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, in front of a crowd of his supporters on Wednesday (10/05). Just a day earlier, the court sentenced the embattled Jakarta governor to two years in prison […]
Source: BBC By Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter, BBC News Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of “heroic virtues.” Miraculous cures. The Vatican’s complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and non-Catholics […]
Source: NPR BY ADAM FRANK When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama […]
Source: Reuters By Ed Davies | JAKARTA Jakarta’s once hugely popular governor is being held in a simple room at a high-security detention centre, his only comforts a Bible and […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam The invitation seemed like no big deal: Would Muslim students at Duke University like to give their call to prayer from the chapel bell […]
Source: BBC India’s Supreme Court has formally opened hearings into a number of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam. The court said it would examine whether […]
Source: Tribune WELLINGTON: New Zealand plans to scrap the crime of blasphemy after calls from across the political spectrum for reform in response to an Irish investigation into British comic […]
Source: Religion News Service By David Gibson and Kimberly Winston | 17 hours ago (RNS) The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in […]
Source: BBC India unveiled the world’s biggest solar farm earlier this year and has quadrupled its solar capacity in the last three years, bringing electricity to millions of off-grid households. […]
Book reviewed by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims Book written by […]
Promoted post: National Geographic Video: Who is God with Morgan Freeman Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Ebionites are the closest to the Christianity that […]
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http://www.newscientist.com: YOU know that you are conscious. Hopefully, you believe me when I tell you that I am, too. But is your pet dog or cat conscious? What about a tool-making crow, or a “clairvoyant” octopus or a worm? You might think it is impossible to find out. There is […]
Source: CNN I have long believed that a President can fire an FBI Director for any reason, or for no reason at all. I’m not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you won’t either. It is done, and I will be […]
Source: Dawn AN item in the press appearing some days ago under the headline ‘Ahmadi professor found murdered’, drew attention to the challenges of news coverage, especially news related to crime.Such a report could have been given quite a few other headings. For instance, the heading could have been ‘A […]