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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
By AFP – Apr 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis, who have fled the city of Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between government forces and Daesh, wait to receive […]
Apr 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The chemical attack on a small town in the province of Idlib, in northern Syria, one of the last strongholds of rebels fighting the […]
At least 86 people killed early Tuesday in rebel-held Khan Sheikhun By AFP – Apr 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Thursday shows 40-year-old Hassan Youssef, a victim of Tuesday’s suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, receiving medical care in a hospital in the nearby northwestern […]
Source: Independent There’s nothing like a nice little war to rally a country around you. Just ask George W Bush, who romped to a second term after a couple of […]
Source: Independent UK The very embodiment of the regime is now on the front line. This is Washington’s path to Assad Robert Fisk @indyvoices Isis is on the retreat in […]
April 06, 2017 The changing global religious landscape Muslims are projected to be the world’s fastest-growing major religious group in the decades ahead. By 2035, the number of babies born to Muslims is expected to modestly exceed births to Christians. Christians remain the world’s largest religious group, but they are […]
Editorial of Spring 2017 Volume By Mubasher Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief A synagogue, church, mosque or temple – a house of God is a sacred place for co-religious congregations to gather and […]
Source: The New York Times By CRAIG S. SMITH STONEHAM-ET-TEWKESBURY, Quebec — Patrick Beaudry, bejeweled, tattooed and bearded, lives on a remote wooded hillside in rural Quebec, worrying about living […]
Source: Associated Press By IRINA TITOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — As part of a sweeping hunt for any accomplices of the St. Petersburg suicide bomber, investigators […]
Source: The Guardian By Rowena Mason Deputy political editor Ken Livingstone will face a new investigation into his recent comments that Hitler supported Zionism, as Jeremy Corbyn criticised his old ally […]
Source: Reuters A Malaysian MP said girls as young as nine were “physically and spiritually” ready for marriage, as the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country passed a law on sexual offences […]
Source: BBC BBC Earth has been nominated for three awards at the 21st annual Webby Awards, described as the “Internet’s Highest Honour” and “The Oscars of the Internet”. The site […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise Spring 2017 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In a study published in 2012 in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: […]
Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick (Adopted with permission from the book, Deeper Roots, Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean from before Columbus to the Present, by Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick, […]
Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, says the declining marriage rates among adult women reflect expanded choices available to women today. Originally broadcast in NPR in March 1, […]
connectionnewspapers.com: In today’s political climate, women can often feel powerless. But more than 100 women of various faiths came together recently to learn how they can and are making a difference in the world around them. #Hosted by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the event was held […]