Ted Talk: Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
The Muslim Times is promoting secularism in every country of the world
Despite appearances, Israel is in for a rough ride under Donald Trump
They might get the US embassy moved to Jerusalem – but they might also be very worried that Steve Bannon is going to provoke a war with Iran. What did the US government mean, when it said Iran was ‘on notice’ after its recent missile test? Was that a warning […]
Abu Zayd Al Balkhi: The 9th Century Psychologist Centuries Ahead of His Time
by Tamim Mobayed Abu Zayd al-Balkhi was a 9th century Muslim polymath, whose writings touched on subjects as varied as geography, medicine, philosophy, theology, politics, poetry, ethics, sociology, grammar, literature and astronomy. Born in 849 CE (235 AH) in the Persian village of Shamisitiyan, within the Balkh (from which he gets […]
Boy Donates Savings to Mosque, Muslim Community Responds with a Surprise
by IlmFeed When 7 year old Jack Swanson heard that the Islamic Center of Pflugerville in Texas had been vandalised, he decided to donate all of his savings – $20 dollars – to the mosque. Vandals had torn pages of the Qur’an, covered it in faeces and left it outside the […]
10 Weird Things That Can Affect Your Heart Disease Risk
Source: Time Health.com /Amanda MacMillan Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, and more than 610,000 Americans die of it annually. […]
What if the internet stopped working for a day?
Source: BBC By Rachel Nuwer 7 February 2017 Jeff Hancock likes to give his Stanford University students weekend assignments that let them experience concepts discussed in class for themselves. Before […]
There is a bird that eats its neighbours’ babies
Source: BBC By Julianna Photopoulos 9 February 2017 Many species have been seen practicing infanticide and cannibalism. But birds of prey, also known as raptors, are something of an exception. […]
New Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered
Source: BBC Archaeologists have found a cave that once housed Dead Sea scrolls in a cliff in the Judean desert – the first such discovery in over 60 years. Israel’s […]
Syria war: Russian ‘friendly fire’ kills Turkish soldiers
Source: BBC President Vladimir Putin has sent condolences after a Russian air strike accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in northern Syria. The soldiers were supporting Syrian rebels in efforts to […]
Paris unveils glass wall to protect Eiffel Tower
Source: BBC The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to have a 2.5m-high (8ft) wall of reinforced glass built around it as protection against terror attacks, officials say. The Paris mayor’s […]
White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — President Trump’s advisers are debating an order intended to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, targeting the […]
What happened when a black and white church merged in Florida
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer February 7 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The topic of the public lecture at the seminary was “The Bible and Race,” and the discussion had […]
Saudi court dismisses Mecca death crane case: report
AFP January 26, 2017 Muslim pilgrims walk past the crane that collapsed the day before at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca on September 12, 2015 (AFP Photo/-) More Riyadh (AFP) – A Saudi court on Thursday dismissed charges against 13 accused over a crane collapse […]
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Rumi
There’s more to this Sufi mystic than meets the eye. 01/27/2017 Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor More than seven centuries after his death, Rumi’s poetry still has the capacity to fascinate his readers. The 13th century Sufi theologian and poet Jalal al-Din Mohammad Rumi is one America’s best-selling poets. His […]
50,000 women in Germany have suffered genital mutilation: report
Source: The Local Thousands of girls in Germany face genital mutilation on top of the tens of thousands of women who have already suffered it, a new government report claims. The study, published on Monday by the Family Affairs Ministry, found that 48,000 woman and girls living in Germany have […]
Trudeau to meet Merkel, EU to discuss controversial trade deal
Source: The Local Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo: AP/dpa Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Europe next week to about the controversial CETA trade deal. Trudeau will speak on February 16 before the European Parliament in Strasbourg to urge members to ratify a sweeping trade deal between the two […]
Germany moves 100 tonnes of its gold from New York to Frankfurt
Source: The Local Germany’s central bank said on Thursday it sped up the process of bringing its gold home from foreign vaults in 2016, moving more than 200 tonnes from New York and Paris. The Bundesbank relocated some 216 tonnes of the precious metal to its headquarters in Frankfurt last […]
Media jihadists
Source: Dawn Take the month of January. Open-source reporting suggests that, excluding lone-wolf operations that may or may not have been inspired by IS, the organisation mounted at least 37 separate attacks in nine different countries: Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia. IS also attempted an […]
Is President Trump just another dumb blonde?
Source: Dawn Is the tweet-happy President Trump perhaps another Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon’s attorney general? Many would have forgotten her obsessive addiction to making telephone calls to the press during the Watergate crisis. Eventually (according to her), Nixon’s people sedated her to prevent her from using the telephone. […]