Nigeria Maiduguri: Two ‘young girls’ used as human bombs
Source: BBC Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. […]
Read Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech: ‘I Recognize That I Am in Very Rare Company’
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan “I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize” Bob Dylan was not in attendance at the 2016 […]
Donald Trump Mulls Exxon Mobil CEO as Secretary of State
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller President-elect Donald Trump is considering Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee for Secretary of State, capping a month-long audition process ripped from his […]
Darul Uloom Deoband Comes Out Openly Against the Tablighi Jamaat and Its Chief Maulvi Sa’ad Kandhaulvi
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page By New Age Islam Special Correspondent 10 December 2016 Perhaps first time in its age-old history, the largest Islamic seminary in India Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a categorical fatwa against the Tablighi Jama’at. Accusing […]
Turkey Mourns 38 Killed in Istanbul Blasts: ‘We Will Have Our Vengeance’
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul Turkey declared a national day of mourning on Sunday after a pair of bomb blasts killed 38 people outside a football stadium in central Istanbul on […]
Inside Democrats’ Plan to Beat Donald Trump at His Own Game
Source: Time By Sam Frizell Democrats in Congress are trying a new strategy: When it comes to the economy, adopt Donald Trump‘s message. Under the Capitol’s dome and far from depopulated […]
Evangelicals Love Donald Trump Because Jesus Loves Rich People
Source: The Daily Beast. A lot of coastal liberals have been shaking their heads at evangelicals these days. How, they ask, could over 80 percent of white evangelical Christians have voted for a vulgar, boastful, sexual-abuse-bragging serial adulterer married to a former nude model? Let alone the race-baiting, the biblical ignorance (“Two Corinthians”), the fraud, the tax-dodging, the […]
McConnell, senators unite behind investigation into Russian hacking
Source: CNN Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with President-elect Donald Trump over Russia on Monday, saying he supports a congressional investigation into findings that Russian hackers attempted to influence the election. McConnell praised the American intelligence community, saying he has “the highest confidence in the intelligence community, and especially […]
Living bombshell’: World’s heaviest woman flies to India to fight for her life
Source: CNN Eman Ahmed, from Egypt, is believed to be the world’s heaviest woman. According to her family, she weighs 1,102 pounds (500 kg).”Eman didn’t live life as everyone does,” Shaimaa Ahmed, Eman’s younger sister and carer, tells CNN. “She didn’t enjoy her childhood or youth. She’s been battling with […]
Changing ties
Source: Dawn Washington is not inclined to compete with China for influence in Pakistan. Nor is the prospect of more Russian engagement with Pakistan likely to alter US calculations. Washington’s current mood is to continue offering assistance to support common interests — while conditioning a growing portion of aid to […]
Mob wrests control of Ahmadi Mosque in Chakwal, Pakistan
Protesters wrest control of Ahmadi worship place in Chakwal Source: Express Tribune LAHORE: Scores of people participating in a procession organised in connection with Eid Miladun Nabi on Monday wrested […]
Mental health and relationships ‘key to happiness’
Source: BBC Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked […]
Human Values – the foundation for a peaceful world
Source: Review of Religions On 17th October, 2016, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, delivered a historic address at a special reception at […]
Taliban demands for cash stir fears of comeback in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
Reuters International DEC 12, 2016 – A policeman stands guard at a market in Mingora, in Swat Valley, Pakistan December 7, 2016. Picture taken December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Hazrat Ali Bacha (reuters_tickers) By Asad Hashim MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim’s phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked […]
Unitarians affirm solidarity with Islamic neighbors
Acknowledging that Islam is a religion of peace, we, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno Board of Trustees, on behalf of the congregation, affirm our solidarity and support for the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno and our Muslim neighbors. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF FRESNO Read more […]
Goodbye to the West
Dec 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Joschka Fischer Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, the end of what was heretofore termed the “West” has become all but certain. That term described a transatlantic world that emerged from the 20th century’s two world wars, redefined the […]
View from Turkey: Where is the sympathy that Turkey deserves?
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ@mervesebnem The Westerners will again not show Turkey, which faced twin deadly blasts in Istanbul, the same sympathy they displayed upon France’s Charlie Hebdo terror attack Articles COLUMNSNew civil society dialogues between Turkey and EU? COLUMNSWill Turkey join Shanghai Cooperation Organization? COLUMNSThe way things are going […]
Ted Talk: Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion
Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule (“Do unto others…”), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in […]
An unexpected result of Yemen’s war: More men are cooking and cleaning
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan GUBAIYA, Yemen — The women in this village never earned money, never left home without the permission of their husbands. It had been […]
Five myths about U.S.-China relations
Source: The Washington Post By John Pomfret John Pomfret, a former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, is the author of “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and […]