Turkish baths, a source of healing
ARDA SAYINER@ardasayiner ISTANBUL Çemberlitaş Bath From the conquest of Constantinople on, the Ottoman Empire built thousands of public baths in every corner of the city as well as in Anatolian […]
Ankara says Greek Cyprus hydrocarbon bid ‘unacceptable’
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The deal Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum signed with Greek Cyprus was construed as the unilateral utilization of the island’s resources by Turkey, hence not acceptable. (Reuters […]
Donald Trump feels he had no choice but to launch air strikes on Syria – but the balance of power on the ground has not changed
Source: Independent President Donald Trump had little option but to order a missile strike against a Syrian airbase after holding Syria responsible for that poison gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun that killed 80 civilians. He had criticised President Obama for being weak, slow and indecisive when facing similar challenges, so he […]
Could World War 3 really happen? The risks, the players and the weapons that could bring on the Apocalypse
Source: The Sun By Neal Baker, Tom Gillespie and Mark Hodge PRESIDENT Trump’s missile attack on the Syrian regime has caused a spike in tension between the United States and […]
The US air strikes say more about the Vladimir Putin-Donald Trump relationship than the Middle East
The pictures out of the town of Khan Sheikhun are terrifying, but Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have the thorny problem of working out how to deal with Russia […]
US air strikes in Syria: Russia suspends agreement preventing direct conflict with American forces
Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow is suspending memorandum with US that prevented incidents and ensured flight safety in Syria in response to Trump-ordered air strikes May Bulman @maybulman Russia has said it is suspending a deal with the US to prevent mid-air collisions over Syria in response to US air strikes […]
Tunisia sentences British DJ for Muslim prayer remix
Source: BBC A Tunisian court has sentenced a British DJ to a year in jail after he played a dance remix of the Muslim call to prayer. London-born Dax J, […]
Senior Israeli rabbi compares Syria atrocities to Holocaust
Source: Associated Press By IAN DEITCH JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former chief rabbi on Thursday compared the atrocities in Syria to the killing of Jews in World War II and […]
The Souls of China by Ian Johnson – the resurgence of religion after Mao
Source: The Guardian BY Julia Lovell In the spring of last year, Xi Jinping – China’s paramount leader – presided over a national conference on religion. He seized the opportunity […]
The world’s first Christian country
Source: BBC By Amanda Proença Santos & Rodolfo Contreras Pious history Armenia is a small country in south-west Asia with a population of only 3 million people. But it […]
On Passover, fearing the Four Questions
Source: Religion News Service By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Jonathan Berman was 3 years old when he first regaled his extended family with the Four Questions at their seder, the ritual meal […]
Trump breaks precedent by blessing the whole world
Source: Politico By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM After announcing that he’d ordered U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians, President Donald Trump closed […]
India police search for parents of girl ‘living with monkeys’
Source: BBC Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys. The little girl, aged between […]
Norway to build landmark ship tunnel
Source: BBC Norway is taking radical steps to try and make a hazardous stretch of coastline safer, by building a tunnel big enough for ships. Original Story
‘Kill the Muslim’ written on poster at USM
Source: http://www.Wlbz2.com By Dustin Wlodkowski, WCSH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — For the second time in less than six months, the University of Southern Maine is investigating anti-muslim graffiti found on […]
Editorial: Facebook must reject Pakistani blasphemy demand
Source: The Mercury News The rulers of Pakistan have stepped up a campaign against blasphemy. That’s frightening news from an Islamic nation where insulting the official religion is a capital […]
Indonesia: A Former First Lady Presses On for a Tolerant, Feminist Islam
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The transgender Muslim women gazed around the reception room with wonder. It was loaded with lavish tributes from foreign rulers: gold filigreed swords from Kuwait, elaborately painted Chinese urns and elegantly framed Quranic verses. Finally the host, Sinta Nuriyah, 69, breezed into the room in her wheelchair, […]
Parents Don’t Like Being Called Bigots After Objecting To School Lesson On Islam
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles to refute Islamophobia Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The parents claim the school was “proselytizing” by teaching about the world’s […]
Do you know Universal Declaration of Human Rights has 30 Articles?
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments You may just need to read this short less than 1880 words description of human rights, carefully, word by word, to know almost every […]
Kurds ‘re-energise’ independence referendum plan for post-jihadist Iraq
Reuters International APR 6, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Kurdish Peshmerga forces celebrate Newroz Day, a festival marking spring and the new year, in Kirkuk March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed/File Photo (reuters_tickers) […]