Islamists end Bangladesh stand-off with suicide blast
Source: The Hindu Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour stand-off, police said on Friday. Police raided the house in the northern […]
Republicans Want to Punish Students Who Shut Down Controversial Speakers on Campus
Source: Time BY Katie Reilly Republican lawmakers are wading into the intensifying debate over free speech on campus, proposing legislation in at least half a dozen states to regulate student protests […]
6 Science-Backed Sleep Remedies
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan Apr 30, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Sleeping pills are big business: About 1 in 25 adults has taken a prescription sleep medicine […]
Clues to new antibiotics could lie in medieval texts
Source: CNN By Erin Connelly, The Conversation For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which […]
Indonesia female clerics issue fatwa against child marriage
By: AFP | Cirebon | Published:April 28, 2017 7:50 am http://indianexpress.com/article/world/female-muslim-clerics-in-indonesia-issue-rare-fatwas-4631334/#sthash.g3KAk1BX.dpuf It urged the government to raise the minimum legal age for women to marry to 18 from the current age of 16. File photo of Muslim girls attending a class meeting at the Darul Muttaqien Islamic boarding school in Bogor, Indonesia, in […]
Indian brides given bats to prevent domestic violence
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA NEW DELHI An Indian bride takes a selfie with her husband during a mass marriage ceremony on the occasion of the Akshaya Tritiya festival Bhopal, […]
Swedish police begin arson probe into Shi’ite mosque fire
Reuters International MAY 1, 2017 – STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish authorities began an investigation into possible arson on Monday after a fire damaged the facade and roof of a Shi’ite […]
Switzerland: Key Statistics
MAY 1, 2017 – How many people live in Switzerland and which languages do they speak? How high is the poverty line? Here you’ll find hard facts about the country at a glance. With a populationexternal link of 8,417,700 permanent residents at the end of 2016, Switzerland is the world’s 97th largest […]
In dozens of countries, laws against apostasy and blasphemy remain on the books and often are enforced
Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy? Source: Pew Research Center BY ANGELINA E. THEODOROU Apostasy and blasphemy may seem to many like artifacts of history. But in dozens of countries […]
HEINRICH BULLINGER: The challenges of marrying a nun during the Reformation
By Regula Bochsler APR 30, 2017 – Heinrich Bullinger had to play a long game when wooing Anna Adlischwyler(zvg) The letter which was delivered to the Oetenbach convent on September […]
Bermuda: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community host an open air exhibition as part of their #TrueIslam Campaign
Source: http://bernews.com/2017/04/photos-ahmadiyya-muslim-open-air-exhibition/ Photos: Ahmadiyya Muslim Open Air Exhibition As part of their educational campaign against extremism, Bermuda’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community hosted an open air exhibition today [April 29] on Kindley Field Road in the east end, with educational material and free copies of the Holy Quran, with both English and Portuguese […]
Australia: Government sells Narrabundah land to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to build their first mosque in Canberra
Source: canberratimes.com.au | Stephen Jeffery A vacant block behind the Narrabundah Ball Park could soon be home to the first permanent Ahmadi mosque in Canberra. The city’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community is one step closer to securing a custom-built mosque after the government offered the 4000 square metre block for their use. Ahmadiyya […]
Angela Merkel arrives without headscarf in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Salman
Theresa May also eschewed the strict dress code for women when she arrived in Riyadh Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 17 hours ago 162 comments Angela Merkel was greeted by King Salman […]
This is how Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump could start World War III
In the whole of human history there has never been a bigger powder keg. Nor men so strange playing with a box of matches near to it Sean O’Grady 62 […]
Problems faced by Egypt’s Coptic Christians run far deeper than Isis attacks
As a minority, Christians naturally need the regime to protect them. Their fear has drawn them closer and closer to Sisi. They have become associated with the regime itself Robert […]
‘Jihadists were going to burn it all’: the amazing story of Timbuktu’s book smugglers
In 2012, tens of thousands of artefacts from the golden age of Timbuktu were at risk in Mali’s civil war. This exclusive extract describes the race to save them from […]
Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi the Great Surgeon
by: Ibrahim Shaikh Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE), also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Andalusian physician. He is considered as the greatest surgeon in […]
Aztec beliefs in the afterlife: Stephen Hawking and me
Source: Muslim Sunrise: 2012_spring Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Stephen Hawking in a recent interview claimed that there is no heaven. A belief […]
Senior doctor resigns over plan to hand Dublin hospital to order of nuns
Source: The Guardian By Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent Dr Peter Boylan condemns plan to transfer ownership to Sisters of Charity, which ran some of Ireland’s notorious ‘Magdalene laundries’ A protest held […]