Bayonne Zoning Board votes down Muslim community center
Source : NJ.com By Corey McDonald | The Jersey Journal Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the proposal failed to pass despite the Zoning Board voting 4-3 in […]
After Spying on Muslims, New York Police Agree to Greater Oversight
Source: The New York Times By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN Photo A restaurant on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, in an area known as Little Morocco was under surveillance […]
Lawmakers push for more ‘religious liberties’ in Florida public schools
Source: Miami Herald BY KRISTEN M. CLARK Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Students and teachers in Florida’s public schools would more explicitly have the right to say the Lord’s Prayer, pray […]
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam. This is an ongoing, evolving diagram which we hope to add to. So please send us your ideas & corrections. Thanks to Imran Ali, Andrzej Mendel, Farshad Tami, Sajjad for corrections. […]
Muslims in Congress, Democrats blast new Trump travel ban: ‘Muslim Ban 2.0
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The two Muslim members of Congress swiftly blasted President Donald Trump’s new version of the travel ban as still targeting Muslim-majority countries — […]
Volcanoes could erupt much more, thanks to climate change
Source: BBC By Vivien Cumming, Dan John and Adam Proctor 6 March 2017 In the frozen world of Iceland, climate change is having a dramatic effect. It is melting the […]
Homophobic rabbi who mentors soldiers says IDF turns women ‘crazy’
Source: Times of Israel hey recruit them to the army, where they enter as Jews, but they’re not Jews by the time they leave,” he said. “Not in the genetic sense, but all of their values and priorities have been upset and we must not allow it.” “What happens if […]
Entire US Senate demands Trump take action on threats to Jewish centers
Source. T of Israel SHINGTON — In a remarkable display of bipartisanship, every single member of the United States Senate signed an open letter to the Trump administration Tuesday demanding that action be taken to address the ongoing surge in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the country. More:
IS gunmen dressed as medics kill 30 at Kabul military hospital
Source: BBC More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghan officials say. Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients. Commandos who […]
US and North Korea set for ‘head-on collision’
Source: CNN The United States and North Korea are set for a “head-on collision” with neither side willing to give way, China’s top diplomat has warned. In a week of heightened tensions in the region, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned the US in unusually frank language against the deployment of […]
Trump could be impeached for falsely accusing Obama, says Harvard professor
Source: ET A Harvard University professor has claimed that US President Donald Trump could face impeachment if he lied when he claimed former president Barack Obama had ordered surveillance of his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. Law professor Lawrence Tribe expressed these remarks in response to George Washington University […]
Germany no longer ‘world’s best country’ due to terror attacks
Source: The Local A ranking of 80 countries in the world to find out which is the very best handed Germany the crown in 2016. Alas, this year it could not hold onto the title. According to the analysis by U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday, Germany will have […]
‘Shariah Law’ a Disaster for the Muslim Majority Countries
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Kacem El Ghazzali, writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council, wrote in an article […]
Why Some Hindus Are Angry About Reza Aslan CNN Show; Believer
Source: Huffinton Post In the first episode, Aslan eats cooked human tissue with members of a fringe Hindu sect. By Antonia Blumberg, Reporter, The Huffington Post A number of Hindu leaders and […]
Islam: Restoring Women’s Rights
November 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) In this ground breaking address, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, expounds how, more than a millennium before the secular world, Islam first definitively established and safeguarded the rights of women 1400 years ago, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the different […]
AUTOMATED WORKFORCE: Should robots be taxed for stealing jobs?
By Celia Luterbacher MAR 7, 2017 – It’s not yet clear whether, with the rise of artificial intelligence, workforce automation will lead to an overall rise or drop in human job creation. If death and taxes are the only two things that a person can count on, should the latter […]
Europe’s Muslims
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif If polls are to be trusted — especially after missing their target in the US presidential elections and the Brexit vote last year — the party of the most controversial politician in the Netherlands is projected to win most seats in the […]
In a Man’s World, Gilgit’s First Female Judge Continues to Break Stereotypes
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Not one, not two, but what?
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told a parliamentary committee that the US had warned that annexing the West Bank would spark an “immediate crisis” with the US administration. The Israeli minister made his statements before leaving for the US for talks with […]
WikiLeaks CIA files: The 6 biggest spying secrets revealed by the release of ‘Vault 7’
Julian Assange has claimed the documents are the biggest intelligence release ever Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls “Year Zero”and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever. The massive set of documents – over 8,000 pages in all – include […]