The Home of the Future
Source: Time By Karl Vick / Zephyrhills, Fla. Mar 23, 2017 For feeling good while getting around, it’s pretty hard to beat the mild glide of a golf cart. But the […]
Turks in Germany divided as voting begins in Erdogan referendum
Source: The Local Turkish citizens line up to vote in Frankfurt. Photo: DPA. Turkish voters in Germany, as deeply split as those in their ancestral homeland, started casting early ballots on Monday in a referendum that could vastly boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers. Hundreds of expatriates lined up at […]
Most Germans think Trump won’t last four years in office
Source: The Local Early on in Donald Trump’s American presidency, Germans still hold relatively negative views of the US leader, a poll released on Monday revealed. More than half of Germans (55 percent) don’t think Trump will last as president for his entire four-year term, according to a survey released by YouGov […]
Russian storm over Trump’s struggling presidency
Source: CNN The darkening storm over Russia is now looming over President Donald Trump’s innermost circle. The intrigue now threatening to swamp Washington politics deepened on Monday when Trump’s son-in-law and trusted adviser, Jared Kushner, offered to testify to senators about meetings with senior Kremlin officials — including the head […]
CNN Documentary: John The Baptist–Finding Jesus Faith, Fact, Forgery
We have saved the above video in the Muslim Times as well for the posterity: Suggested reading and viewing by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times John […]
Who would mourn for the 200 civilians killed in airstrike in Iraq?
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
Khalifa of Islam Calls for a Curb on Arms & Urges Dialogue between Nations
Source: http://www.pressahmadiyya.com/press-releases/2017/03/head-ahmadiyya-muslim-community-calls-curb-arms-trade-urges-dialogue-nations/ Rather than erecting walls that keep us apart, we should build bridges that bring us closer together” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad On 25 March 2017, the World Head […]
Russian authorities ‘imprisoning Crimean Tatars in psychiatric hospitals’
Since annexation many ethnic Tatar activists have been detained in outdated mental institutions, rights activists say Madeline Roache Tuesday 28 March 2017 Lawyers and human rights activists say Russian authorities […]
Giant gold coin worth almost €4 million stolen from Berlin museum in dawn heist
A visitor of the Bode Museum observes the 100kg heavy gold coin ‘Big Maple Leave’ in Berlin, Germany Credit: MARCEL METTELSIEFEN/EPA Melanie Hall, Berlin 27 March 2017 • […]
London attack: Women gather on Westminster Bridge in silence to remember victims
Source: ABC.net Dozens of women have come together on London’s Westminster Bridge to link hands in a silent vigil for the victims of last week’s terror attack. View image on […]
Bible and rocks thrown through doors of Colorado mosque
Source: CNN By Azadeh Ansari, CNN Officials with the Islamic Center of Fort Collins said the footage shows a man throwing several large rocks and the Bible into the mosque. […]
Oklahoma lawmaker defends pregnancy from rape and incest as ‘beauty from ashes’
Source: The Washington Post By Kristine Phillips March 25 Oklahoma lawmaker on abortion in rape and incest cases: ‘God can bring beauty out of ashes’ During a floor debate on […]
Like an invisibility cloak, Latina Muslims find the hijab hides their ethnicity — from Latinos
Source: Los Angeles Times Magdalena Al Omari, a Mexican American convert to Islam, slipped on the hijab and braced for whatever may come. It happened a few months later, in […]
A couple is suing Georgia to name their daughter Allah
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk March 26 (Superior Court of Fulton County) The baby’s first name posed no issue: ZalyKha. Georgia law could handle that. Her parents had to stack […]
Egyptian Copts finally fulfilling ‘dream’ of traveling to Jerusalem
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Mina Nader | March 26, 2017 AL-KOSHEH, Egypt (RNS) For decades, merchant Refaat El-Sayeh, a Coptic Christian, wanted to see the Church […]
After Terrorist Attack, a British City Linked to Jihadis Winces and Asks Why
Source: The New York Times By KATRIN BENNHOLD and KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA MARCH 26, 2017 Photo The minaret of a mosque in Birmingham, England, where Khalid Masood resided before he attacked […]
Every Book Recommendation Bill Gates Has Ever Published
Source: Time BY Sarah Begley Mar 23, 2017 Sarah Begley is a staff writer for TIME. Bill Gates is a very busy man, but as his admirers know, he makes time […]
‘We shouldn’t have to keep saying sorry’: After the London attack, Muslims react with fear and anger
Source: The Washington Post By Jennifer Hassan LONDON — Even before authorities named the assailant in the Westminster attack as 52-year-old Khalid Masood, the word “Muslims” began trending on Twitter. Despite limited details on the attacker’s […]
How gossip changed one Pakistani woman’s life
Source: BBC Image captionWajiha Arooj hoped to continue her education – until gossip changed everything A Pakistani-born woman has won a 17-year legal battle over a university error that triggered damaging gossip that changed the course of her life, reports the BBC’s Umer Nangiana in Lahore. “The university crushed my […]