Source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/controversial-plans-mosque-cardiff-set-12729276 Controversial plans for a mosque in Cardiff are set to be refused again Planning officers say the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association plans would impact traffic too much to be passed BYRUTH MOSALSKI Plans to build a new mosque in Cardiff are set to be turned down for a second time […]
Source: BBC Does the ‘five-second rule’ actually exist? This is the myth that if you drop food and pick it up quickly enough (within five seconds is most common, although some […]
Source: BBC At least 48 people have been killed in a landslide at a vast rubbish dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, officials say. They say dozens […]
Source: BBC There’s a curious thing about people. All of us are driven in some way or another to achieve – we want to run faster, be more creative, win […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Renter/NerdWallet Mar 10, 2017 If you drive to work every day, you know the stress and costs of commuting all too well, but perhaps you only have […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Suffering and the question of suffering is our shared destiny. Today millions are homeless in different parts […]
Happy Holi to all our Indian readers from the whole of the Editorial team of the Muslim Times (TMT). One of the biggest themes of TMT is interfaith tolerance, universal […]
Source: http://www.courant.com/opinion/letters/hc-meriden-honors-muslims-20170309-story.html The same day President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order obstructing migrants from Muslim majority nations, our Ahmadiyya Muslim Community received the Spirit of Meriden Award at the city’s council meeting [March 7, news, “Trump Signs Revised Entry Ban”]. The difference was like night and day. Our progressive […]
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/03/meet_a_muslim_in_cleveland_on.html NORTH CANTON, Ohio — It’s easier to blur the lines about what is and what isn’t acceptable speech about a certain group of people if they are just an abstract concept. This situation prevails in America, in which, when some individuals refer to Muslims, they are speaking not about […]
Source: http://dailytexanonline.com/2017/03/09/interfaith-communities-come-together-with-strength-in-numbers BY HANNAH PLANTOWSKY Interfaith communities come together with strength in numbers Though the anti-Muslim flyers stapled across the West Mall and the vandalism of the Texas Hillel building were clearly intended to frighten, religious leaders on campus have come together in showing mutual interfaith support. “There is a really […]
Source: Youtube U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt attended an interfaith Iftar reception to mark World Refugee Day at 7:30 p.m. on June […]
Source CNN Trump’s chaotic entry to the global stage is already having repercussions. Trump’s actions could trigger another tumultuous year in a fragile Europe ever more fragmented by nationalism Close to a dozen European countries — including Germany — will go to the polls this year with populist-nationalists, many of […]
Source: Time Joseph Hincks Mar 10, 2017 Every year millions of people in India, Nepal, and around the world celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi under clouds of technicolored powder. […]
Source: Muftah By Usman Ahmad March 10th, 2017 Recent months have seen Pakistan’s blasphemy laws come under the spotlight once again. In January, five liberal-leaning bloggers and activists went missing under […]
Source: CNN A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching security at the White House complex and was discovered by a Secret Service officer by the south entrance to the executive residence, officials said. The incident happened just before midnight while President Donald Trump was at the […]
Source: Religion News service By Catherine Clark Above every Greek Orthodox church’s altar, Theotokos, or Mary the Mother of Jesus, symbolically watches over the congregation. The figure, with arms outstretched, […]
Source: Associated Press By JAMEY KEATEN GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s upper house of parliament has rejected an initiative championed by a right-wing populist party to ban burqas and niqabs, the […]
Source: The Guardian Michael Safi in Delhi The American author filmed with a cannibalistic sect for his Believers series, with fears that it could increase hate attacks against Indian Americans […]
Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and SUHASINI RAJMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Pramod Dass, left, the director of Bethesda Charitable Endeavors, one of the Indian partners of Compassion […]
Source: BBC By Jonah Fisher Image captionThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority group from Myanmar A top UN official says “crimes against humanity” are being committed by the military and […]