Malala named youngest ever UN Messenger of Peace
(CNN) Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been named the youngest ever UN Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls’ education. The 19-year-old Pakistani activist became known […]
Lipstick Under My Burkha
Source: Dawn While the Indian censor board refuses to certify Lipstick Under My Burkha, the west is already pushing the Alankrita Shrivastava directorial towards a potential Golden Globe nomination. According to Times of India, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), famous for starting and co-producing the annual Golden Globe Awards, […]
Police hunt small child who seriously injured granny in hit-and-run on bike
Source The Local Authorities in Berlin are searching for a small child and his adult female companion, after the boy cycled into an old woman and then fled.The incident happened at around 6.30pm on Sunday evening in the Spandau district, Tagesspiegel reports.The child was cycling with the aid of training […]
Video: Ahmadiyya Afiyat Mosque inaugurated in Tiengen-Waldshut-Germany
By : Zubair Khan Worldwide Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) by leading Zohr/Asr prayers inaugurated Afiyat Mosque in Tiengen–Waldshut Germany on 10.04.2017. Plot was purchased in 2015. Mosque is built on 200 sqm and is sufficient for 100 worshipers to pray at one time. In […]
Pakistan sentences Indian spy Kulbushan Yadav to death
Source: ET In a rare move, Pakistan on Monday sentenced Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadhav to death for involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in the country.“The spy was tried through Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and awarded the death sentence. Today, Chief of Army […]
Muslim woman from viral EDL protest photo says she ‘wasn’t intimidated in the slightest’
Source: ET Saffiyah Khan at the EDL protest. PHOTO: TWITTER An image of an unfazed half-Pakistani, half-Bosnian woman standing her ground, smiling at an English Defence League protestor took social media by storm on Sunday. In an interview with BuzzFeed, the woman of the hour, Saffiyah Khan said she ended up […]
Russian arrested in Spain ‘over US election hacking’
Source: BBC Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in “hacking” the US election, Spanish press reports have said. Pyotr Levashov, arrested on 7 April in Barcelona, […]
Shooting at California primary school
Source: BBC ‘Multiple’ victims in shooting at primary school in San Bernardino, California, fire service says This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. […]
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF REZA ASLAN’S “BELIEVER”
Source: The New Yorker By Elias Muhanna April 9, 2017 A few years ago, a friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Reza Aslan is insulting you!” The […]
Israel shuts Egypt border after terror warning Passover eve
Source: Associated Press By IAN DEITCH JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel closed its Taba border crossing to the Sinai peninsula on Monday following warnings by its anti-terrorism office of an “imminent” […]
Dalai Lama says Tibetan people should decide on his succession
Source: Reuters By Sunil Kataria | TAWANG, INDIA Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Saturday the Tibetan people should decide if they wanted to continue with his institution, […]
Hindu Group Claims Christians Tried Forced Conversions in India
Source: The New York Times By SUHASINI RAJ and NIDA NAJARAPRIL 8, 2017 Yogi Adityanath, the new chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a news conference […]
Berlin to see its first Jewish campus after the Holocaust
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal doesn’t get much sleep these days, but says it’s well worth it. The community rabbi and head of […]
Unfettered online hate speech fuels Islamophobia in China
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH HEFEI, China (AP) — The flood of angry anti-Muslim rhetoric on social media was the first sign of how fiercely the suburban middle-class homeowners […]
Reza Aslan Makes the Best Case Yet for Secularism in Israel
Reza Aslan: Why I worry about Israel’s future Source: CNN By Reza Aslan (CNN) I know better than most how unexpectedly a country can be changed from within. I was […]
Golden Globes gives nod to banned Indian film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’
IMAGES STAFF, ESK REPORT https://images.dawn.com/news/1177405 The ‘lady-‘oriented’ film may have a chance at bagging a Golden Globe. While the Indian censor board refuses to certify Lipstick Under My Burkha, the west is already pushing the Alankrita Shrivastava directorial towards a potential Golden Globe nomination. According to Times of India, the Hollywood Foreign […]
Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Acting on a tip from explorer of caves four years ago, scientists in South Africa discovered what […]
Iraqis celebrate Palm Sunday near Mosul for the first time in three years
Reuters International APR 9, 2017 – Iraqis attend the first Palm Sunday procession in the burnt out main church of the Christian city of Qaraqosh since Iraqi forces retook it […]
In the Trump era, one U.S. Muslim investor tries a louder voice
Reuters International APR 10, 2017 – Activist investor Bashar Qasem, President and CEO of Azzad Asset Management Inc, speaks to a client during a conference in Huntington Beach, California, U.S. […]
UNICEF official seeks release of detained Rohingya children in Myanmar
Reuters International APR 10, 2017 – By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) – A top official from the U.N. children’s fund (UNICEF) has sought the release of Rohingya children detained in a Myanmar army crackdown on the Muslim minority, the organisation’s country representative said on Monday. Children as young as 10 […]