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) […]
Mosul humanitarian crisis deepens as displacement peaks
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 […]
How many more dead before peace?
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 […]
Russia, Syria hit back as pressure builds over ‘chemical attack’
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 […]
Trump’s pride has been hurt at home, so he’s looking to bolster it with a win in Syria
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 […]
Assad has forced his secret police into the army to fight for Syria – and it will bring him closer to Trump
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 […]
The changing global religious landscape
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 […]
New Volume of the Muslim Sunrise: Houses of God: Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple
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 […]
In Canada, Where Muslims Are Few, Group Stirs Fear of Islamists
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 […]
Police arrest 7 in wake of St. Petersburg subway bombing
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 […]
Ken Livingstone faces fresh inquiry over Hitler Zionism remarks
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 […]
Malaysia passes child sex crimes law, does not ban child marriage
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 […]
BBC Earth is nominated for Webby Awards
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 […]
‘Doctor’s Orders: 20 Minutes of Meditation Twice a Day’ – How about 10 Minutes 5 Times a Day?
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: […]