Source: https://www.alislam.org/library/jihad/ Terrorism and Jihad in Islam “As far as Islam is concerned, it categorically rejects and condemns every form of terrorism. It does not provide any cover or justification for any act of violence, be it committed by an individual, a group or a government….. I most strongly condemn all […]
Source: http://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/american-muslim-executive-order-banning-muslims 20 FEB 2017 POSTED BY SHEHLA AHMAD, AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY President Donald Trump signing one of many executive orders in his first couple weeks in office. FEATURED CONTRIBUTOR SHEHLA AHMAD SAYS THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WHICH NEED TO BE EXAMINED. Should we close our doors […]
Trump: "The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful" https://t.co/DkkGxldzbd — CNN (@CNN) February 21, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
INDIA Feb 20 : The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Shimoga on eve of Musleh Mo’ud Day Distributed Fruits & Exam Kit for Specially able children of “Taranga School for Deaf & Dumb” Shimoga, Karnataka. Taranga School for deaf & Dumb , Started with a single child providing physiotherapy with handful of […]
By MEGAN TWOHEY and SCOTT SHANEFEB. 19, 2017 President Trump on his way to Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Although he has expressed hope that the United States and Russia can work together, it is unclear if the White House will take a privately submitted peace proposal for Ukraine seriously. CreditAl […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We want secularism in every country of the world. The article below is very interesting and highlights the constant tug in the Muslim countries towards Shariah Law. We however have a large collection to promote secularism from different angles, social, judicial, religious, cultural and political. […]
Fahad Nazer | Published — Monday 20 February 2017 Some American historians have long maintained that being US president is the most demanding position in the world. Overseeing the world’s biggest economy and military is an enormous undertaking. The officeholder’s decisions impact the lives of over 330 million Americans and […]
Reuters International FEB 21, 2017 – Hospital workers transport a man injured in the Charsadda blast to the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (reuters_tickers) By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and […]
Reuters International FEB 21, 2017 – Former education minister and Jakarta governor candidate Anies Baswedan speaks during an interview at his home in Jakarta, Indonesia February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Fatima El-Kareem (reuters_tickers) By Eveline Danubrata JAKARTA (Reuters) – A former education minister in Muslim-majority Indonesia facing a run-off vote against […]
ITALY TO SWITZERLAND FEB 20, 2017 Increased enforcement by the Swiss authorities led to a growth in migrant population in Como (Keystone) Four Ghanaian nationals smuggling migrants from Italy to Switzerland for a fee have been apprehended. They are accused of having illegally transported around 200 migrants across the border […]
Source:BBC US President Donald Trump has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as his national security adviser. He will replace Lt Gen Michael Flynn who was fired after just three weeks and three days in the job.A lieutenant general with the US Army, HR McMaster served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he […]
Senior Trump aides met with an opposition politician from Ukraine in New York Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S Helderman Washington DC President Trump’s personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for […]
While US Defence Secretary James Mattis heads to Baghdad to appease Iraqis, Donald Trump merely wants his ‘war news story’, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices “The re-conquest of western Mosul begins.” Or so several headlines in the Arab press have announced. And it’s true that the Iraqi […]
The Nation: what at does Stephen Bannon really believe? Because he hasn’t spoken much in public since becoming, as Time magazine puts it, “the Second Most Powerful Man in the World”—he’s the president’s influential chief strategist and now a member of the National Security Council’s principals committee—analysts have focused in […]
Aljazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Islam is not the source of “terrorism” and that cooperating with predominantly Muslim states in the fight against it is vital. Merkel, who […]
Source: Dawn MOSCOW: Russia’s combative ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday after being taken ill at work.The Russian foreign ministry said nothing about the circumstances of his death, but offered condolences to his relatives and said the diplomat had died one day […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Pulver Oscar-nominated Muslim actor reveals additional discrimination he has faced since converting to Islam in 1999 The actor Mahershala Ali, whose performance in the widely acclaimed […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL DHA Photo A total of 704 artifacts believed to date back to the Battle of Gallipoli have been returned to the historical Gallipoli peninsula in northwestern Turkey’s Çanakkale, after Gendarmerie teams confiscated them in the city of Yalova. Although the battle took place more than a century […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Servicemen of the “Fighting Eagles” 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, walk by tanks that arrived via train to the US base in Mihail Kogalniceanu, eastern Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (AP Photo) Worldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War […]
Source: Time Zamira Rahim / Fortune Feb 20, 2017 Over 100 employees have reportedly lost their jobs after joining the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest, which focused on missing a day […]