How Exercise Can Help Depression in Kids
Source: Time By Alice Park Exercise isn’t a cure for depression, but being active has been shown to alleviate some symptoms of depression in both teens and adults. Depending on the […]
Iran Just Lost Its Most Influential Power-Broker. Now, Everything Could Change.
Source: Time By Kay Armin Serjoie / Tehran The death on Sunday of one of Iran’s last first-generation revolutionaries, who ranked among its most influential statesmen, is set to have a […]
The people who can’t go numb at the dentist’s
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk 9 January 2017 To Lori Lemon, the doctors all seemed flabbergasted. She had come in to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, to have a […]
Ireland Reconsiders Its Constitutional Ban on Abortion
Source: The New York Times By SINEAD O’SHEA DUBLIN — An assembly of Irish citizens convened by Parliament is considering changes to one of the most divisive policies in the […]
Austrian minister calls for headscarf ban for public servants
Source: Reuters Austria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz said on Friday he wanted to ban public servants, including school teachers, from wearing the Islamic headscarf. Kurz, of […]
Amid unrest toward Muslims, ‘Day of solidarity’ created in show of unity
Source: Chron By Sebastian Herrera The people stood at each of the mosque’s three entrances gripping posters coated with heart shapes and letters spelling phrases of support: “We are one.” […]
The mystical poet who can help you lead a better life
Source: BBC By Daniel Ladinsky The 14th-Century Persian poet Hafiz’s work is not just very beautiful – it is useful too. Hafiz can teach us how to get the most […]
Muslim-Jewish interfaith exchange reveals common ground
Source: Philly.com By Dan Geringer, Staff Writer Haroon Rashid, a Muslim from North Penn Mosque in Lansdale, and Fred Goldstein, a Jew from Old York Road Temple-Beth Am synagogue in […]
Putting Faith and Sports on the Same Team
Source: The New York Times By CLAIRE MARTIN Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein […]
USA: Chicago’s Ahmadiyya Muslims honored by Sierra Lone’s Muslim Community
“Islam based on Five pillars. Muslim must follow them to make peace for all”, said Imam Shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslims Chicago. Report: by Iqbal Majeed On Saturday, December 10, 2016, the Sierra Lone’s Muslim Community in Chicago organized a community program to honor one of their elders who had just […]
Islam does not ask Muslims to judge women by their dress
MOIN QAZI @moinqazi123 Rage over the gown of cricketer Mohammed Shami’s wife in a picture posted on Facebook is symptomatic of a deeper malaise. Women’s dress is a favourite subject of religious bigots of all hues with their own notions of morality. Everyone wants to talk about the “moral values” […]
Is Marriage a Contract between a Man and a Woman or with the Clergy?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Acknowledging the right of all non-Muslims to follow their respective personal laws, the Council of Islamic […]
General Raheel Sharif should reconsider commanding the ‘Islamic military alliance’
this would not only be a very risky undertaking militarily but a fiasco in the political sense for Pakistan at least January 09, 2017, 2:06 am Syed Fazl-e-Ali Naqvi The media is agog with the news of General Raheel Sharif’s likely appointment as the Commander of the 39 nation Islamic […]
Non-Muslims entitled to follow own personal laws: CII
Source: The Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Acknowledging the right of all non-Muslims to follow their respective personal laws, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) declared that Shariah laws allowed all non-Muslims […]
EU break-up no longer unthinkable, German Vice Chancellor says
REUTERS BERLIN EPA Photo Germany’s insistence on austerity in the euro zone has left Europe more divided than ever and a break-up of the European Union is no longer inconceivable, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Der Spiegel magazine. Gabriel, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are junior partner to Chancellor Angela […]
Open Letter to Pakistan/Pakistani Government: Ahmadi Apartheid
patheos.com: To whom it may concern, “The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of Bad people, but because of the silence of good people.” – Napoleon Bonaparte In the Quran, Allah the Most Gracious and Merciful says: 1. “For you is your religion, and for me is […]
Police suspect Norway asylum centre fire was arson
NTB/The Local news@thelocal.no 6 January 2017 Police did not reveal what led them to suspect arson. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix Police suspect that a fire at an asylum centre in Gibostad in Troms county in the early morning hours of Thursday was arson. The fire broke out in […]
In emotional farewell speech, Michelle Obama praises diversity
Reuters International JAN 7, 2017 – U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S., October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (reuters_tickers) By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned case for embracing diversity and welcoming all religious groups on Friday in a […]
Fighting intolerance a challenge for Indonesia’s moderate Muslims
Jewel Topsfield Karuni Rompies Jakarta: Permadi Arya became famous – or infamous, depending on how you look at it – for his satirical YouTube videos lampooning extremism. One of them, You are Shiite, sends up those who preach that only Sunni Muslims will be guaranteed a plot of land in […]
Worldwide praise for Saudi cop as Daesh shootout video goes global
ARAB NEWS | Published — Monday 9 January 2017 Cpl. Gibran Jaber Awagy, the brave police officer, who shot and killed two Daesh-linked wanted terrorists, is recuperating in a hospital. JEDDAH: The brave police officer who shot and killed two Daesh-linked terrorists has been hailed as a hero by […]