Source: Los Angeles Times A 29-year-old Simi Valley man has been arrested and booked on suspicion of committing a hate crime after he stabbed an apparent worshiper near a mosque, […]
Source: ET In this atmosphere, my wife and I watched David Sedaris, a writer/comedian, at Beniroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Before the introduction, the host ranted against Trump, the audience groaned and moaned, and the show went on. Sedaris delivered his trademark monologue, balancing tragedy and comedy, his sister’s suicide and the idyllic Carolina […]
Source: ET Autocratic regimes within the Muslim world have long practiced a contrived and self-serving anti-Semitism. They use state-controlled media and politicised clergies to cultivate anti-Jewish animus in their citizenry. It is taught in schools and mosques through selective and acontextual readings of both scripture and history. This de rigueur hatred serves such regimes several uses. It provides them with […]
Source: ET DUBAI: Saudi police detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday. The Arabic-language al-Sharq newspaper reported that the woman was detained […]
Source: ET Any ban on wearing the niqab in public is one that defends secular society. In Germany today, secularism and the perceived integrity of the nation are strained with the influx of 1.2 million Syrian refugees, the rise in Islamist terrorism, and the looming threat from the so-called Islamic […]
Source: ET Nazneed said she was being targeted by the new headmistress who joined the school in June, 2016. Nazneed had been working at the school for two years and nine months. “Since the new headmistress joined, she has asked me to remove my hijab and burqa on several occasions, […]
Source: ET “A man has been arrested after a man was seriously assaulted at Forest Hill station this afternoon,” British Transport Police said in a statement on their website. “We are investigating the circumstances of the Forest Hill incident, but at this time we are not treating it as terrorism-related.” […]
Source: Reuters By Kanupriya Kapoor and Agustinus Beo Da Costa | JAKARTA As the ranks of protesters thickened in central Jakarta on Dec. 2, turning into Indonesia’s biggest mass demonstration […]
Source: The Guardian John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ in front of TV cameras in April. Photograph: ITN BY Peter WalkerPolitical correspondent The government is to formally adopt a […]
Source: NPR By CAMILA DOMONOSKE It’s a simple sign. One message — “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” Three languages: Spanish, English and Arabic. They’ve popped […]
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Some people—even those who are strong and healthy—are totally convinced that disease is just around the corner. An estimated 5-10% of people have health anxiety, meaning […]
Source: Time BY Nikhil Kumar / Teknaf, Bangladesh Around 21,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two months, as Burmese forces launched what one U.N official says is […]
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 12 December 2016 When instant messaging became popular in the 1990s, Judi Wineland was not a fan. The constant disruption of chat pop-ups made it […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]