MIGRATION SERIES (PART 3) By Duc-Quang Nguyen SEP 22, 2016 – Phrases like “refugee crisis” and “migrant waves” have routinely made the headlines in recent years. But is the prevailing feeling that Europe is facing an unparalleled level of mass migration backed by hard numbers? Here is a much quoted […]
Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Devesh Kapur World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become all too typical. Many observers are once again gnashing their teeth at the United States’ continued monopoly over the top […]
Source: scroll.in ‘An intelligent, culturally aware, aesthetically evolved citizenry must take an uncompromising stance against bigotry and thought control.’ Plays are pre-censored in Maharashtra and scripts have to be passed before they can be staged – a necessary nuisance that directors , writers and producers have been facing for years. […]
Sep 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL World leaders are meeting in New York where the United Nations General Assembly is holding the first-ever summit on “Addressing large movements of refugees and migrants”. With numbers of people forced to flee conflict and hunger in their countries unprecedented since World War II, […]
Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The US Congress has recently passed a bill giving Israel $38 billion over 10 years in military assistance, making it the largest to any of US’ allies. Israel hailed the deal as historic, and historic it is for this country that continues to defy […]
By JT – Sep 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah takes part in Tuesday’s Leaders Summit on Refugees in New York (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday reiterated that an apt response to the escalating refugee crisis is […]
Source: BBC The US Secretary of State has called for all planes to be grounded in key areas of Syria to save the truce there, following an attack on an aid convoy. In a blistering speech at the United Nations, John Kerry said the future of Syria was “hanging by […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Mirza […]
Source: Motto By Elizabeth Lesser My younger sister Maggie was a renaissance woman—a no-nonsense nurse practitioner in a rural Vermont community, an accomplished artist, a mother and farmer and beekeeper […]
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan President Obama announced Tuesday the U.S. will accept 110,000 refugees from around the world in the coming year, a nearly 60% increase in the number of refugees that were welcomed over the past year. Obama called the global refugee crisis a “test of our common humanity” […]
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller Republican nominee Donald Trump called first presidential debate moderator, NBC News anchor Lester Holt, “a Democrat” Monday, despite public records that indicate otherwise. New York State voter registration documents show that Holt has been a registered Republican in the state since 2003. Trump’s comments to […]
Source: BBC Cigarette and alcohol use among 15- and 16-year-olds is declining across Europe but the numbers using cannabis are growing, an EU survey shows. The Espad report for 2015 […]
Source: BBC The 193 countries of the United Nations have agreed a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections or “superbugs”. Six years in the making, the international […]
Source: RNS By Tahir Nasser (RNS) After last month’s spectacle of armed policemen forcibly undressing a Muslim woman on a beach in Nice, France, I wrote a column titled “When did modesty become a dirty word?,” arguing the positive, Islamic case for modesty of dress and behavior for men and […]
Source: The Islamic Monthly By KASHIF CHAUDHRY On July 8, 2016, prominent American Muslim cleric Imam Omar Suleiman gave a brilliant speech at the Dallas Police memorial: “We ask that the […]
Source: BuzzFeed By Zaina Arafat Salam Alaikum, everyone!” Yasemin Kanar, known to her fans as YazTheSpaz, uses the traditional Muslim welcome to greet her 68,000 subscribers at the start of almost […]
Mayor Bonnie Crombie cut this huge cake on this occasion, celebrating 50 years of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Canada Lal Khan Malik, president AMJ Canada, and Mirza Nasim Baig discussing a point Missionary Mirza Muhammad Afzal, Ameer Jama’at Canada, Mayor Bonnie Crombie Newly arrived Syrian Hasham al-Kurdi speaking in Mississauga […]
Source: Independent By Maya Oppenheim @mayaoppenheim ‘Any person who wants to indulge in violence is no longer a genuine Buddhist or genuine Muslim,’ says Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader The Dalai Lama has […]
Source: http://www.thegazellenews.com/2016/09/19/international-ngo-feeds-prison-inmates-in-nigeria/ International NGO Feeds Prison Inmates In Nigeria September 19, 2016 | Metro0 124 By Jumu’ah Abiodun A non-governmental Organization (NGO), Humanity First International Canada on behalf of its Nigerian counterpart Humanity First International Nigeria feed prison inmates in Badagry Prison, Lagos. The NGO fed the inmates before, during and after Eid-El-Kabir […]
Source: http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/electorate-call-for-continuity-in-governance.html Sharing their views, 50-year-old Mr Suleiman Adam Sakyi, Abura Circuit President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, 66-year-old Mr Issah Yankson Mensah Abura Circuit Secretary of the Mission, and 75-year-old Adam Saed Nyarko, also an elder of the mission, were of the strong opinion that “for the sake of the […]