Chris Doyle | Published — Monday 1 May 2017 British Prime Minister Theresa May expects the British public to be proud of one of their most terrible colonial disgraces and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. The then British government promised to support a national home […]
RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR. | Published — Sunday 30 April 2017 RIYADH: A five-day workshop initiated by the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to respond […]
Ben Flanagan | Published — Tuesday 2 May 2017 DUBAI: Most Americans have scant knowledge of the Arab world, with eight in 10 unable to point out the region on a map, a wide-ranging Arab News/YouGov poll has found. The survey of 2,057 people in the US revealed an alarmingly […]
May 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby This week, nearing the end of four years of service as an Obama presidential appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), I felt compelled to issue a public dissent to USCIRF’s 2017 annual report. While the larger part of […]
By Reuters – May 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Algerian city employees install Algerian flags and President’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika poster on the streets ahead of the parliamentary election in Algiers, Algeria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) ALGIERS — In a sports arena festooned with national flags, Algeria’s ruling FLN Party […]
Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Charles Darwin did not make my list of heroes until after I was forty years old. Part […]
How we found out evolution is true: By John van Wyhe The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles to promote guided evolution. John van Wyhe is a historian […]
Source: The New York Times By BENOÎT MORENNE The French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen speaking this month in Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes, France. She has temporarily stepped down as leader of the far-right National Front. CreditKamil Zihnioglu/Associated Press PARIS — The interim leader that Marine Le Pen chose to run […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Shellnutt Hasan Minhaj asked the question himself when he hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night: “Who would have thought, with everything […]
Source: Boston Globe By Lisa Wangsness The shingled Victorian house on Intervale Street has a purple door, a symbol of hope. The Basmala — a phrase recited when reading the […]
Source: Dallas News BY Marc Ramirez Churches must bridge political divides and find not just a common voice but an independent one in the fight for economic and social justice, […]
Source: BBC Police in India say two Muslim men have been lynched by a mob which accused them of trying to steal cows for slaughter. The killings in the north-eastern […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANTHONY CILLUFFO AND D’VERA COHN As demographers convene in Chicago for the Population Association of America’s annual meeting, here is a look at 10 of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]