Can Islam and Liberalism Coexist?
Source: Slate By Isaac Chotiner, who is a Slate contributor. Why Islam resists secularization, and how that continues to shape the politics of the Middle East. One of the hopes that […]
Dispute Over Cyrillic Raises Tensions Between Croatia, Serbia
Source: Balkan Insight The announcement by Croatia’s interior minister that ‘false Serb residents’ of the town of Vukovar will be deleted from its population list, thus enabling the Serbian language and Cyrillic script to be abolished as one of its official languages, has sparked yet another rise in tensions between […]
Police arrest ‘Islamist’ terror suspect near Polish border
Source: The Local A police special forces unit arrested a terror suspect in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, on Wednesday, state interior minister Dietmar Woidke said. More:
Why Trump doesn’t have a clue about Germany or Merkel
Source: The Local US presidential candidate Donald Trump has been on the attack against Chancellor Angela Merkel once again. The lies he told about Germany show how dangerous he is. […]
Russia attack: Gunmen killed ‘attacking police’ near Moscow
Source: BBC The attack took place on the Shchelkovskoye highway in Balashikha, 20km (12 miles) from Moscow.Police were investigating whether the men were from the North Caucasus area. Russia has battled an insurgency in the region since two bitter separatist conflicts in its republic of Chechnya.Separately, in St Petersburg on Wednesday, […]
Dangers once posed by the Soviet Union and the more recent peril of Islamic terrorism.
Source: CNN Republican nominee Donald Trump drew an analogy Monday between dangers once posed by the Soviet Union and the more recent peril of Islamic terrorism. “In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism and called the USSR the Evil Empire,” Trump […]
Trump Dumps Campaign Chief for Breitbart Exec
Source: The Daily Beast Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has diminished the role of campaign chairman Paul Manafort and brought on Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon and Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. Bannon has been named the campaign’s new chief executive, and Conway will become campaign manager. According to TheWashington Post, […]
What Modi Wants from Pakistan?
By Zubair K Khan According to International Print Media Reports, Indian Prime Minister Modi earned a unique distinction this weekend as the first prime minister in India’s history to raise human rights violations in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. He took advantage by mentioning some acts, carried out in the […]
4th Quran & Science Symposium on August 27th
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MORE THAN 584,000 PEOPLE JOIN THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY
Press and Media UK 50th Jalsa Salana UK concluded by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The 50th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 14 August 2016 with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the […]
Theresa May to Ahmadi Muslims: Your motto – “love for all, hatred for none” – shines from all you do
We’ll uphold Ahmadis ideal on peace, campaign against extremism— Theresa May Source: Vanguard, August 14, 2016 By Ishola Balogun, London Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa Mary May has said that […]
Tourism of faith in Pakistan
Source: Dawn By Hajra Mumtaz ANOTHER Independence Day celebrated, another round of frenzy that the citizenry has fallen into the habit of indulging in at this time of the year. […]
US refuses to back Modi’s claims
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: The United States continues to view the Kashmir issue as a dispute that needs to be settled by both India and Pakistan, says the US State Department, while distancing itself from India’s claims over Azad Kashmir. In his Independence Day speech on Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
Freudian Conflicts and Slips
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Sigmund Freud remembered all his life the disgust and bitter disappointment he felt as a boy of […]
UK: radical cleric Anjum Choudary guilty of inviting IS support
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37098751 One of the UK’s most notorious radical clerics has been convicted of inviting others to support the so-called Islamic State, it can now be reported. Police said Anjem Choudary, 49, had stayed “just within the law” for years, but was arrested in 2014 after pledging allegiance to the militant […]
Donald Trump’s jihad on Muslims
Source: RNS By Arsalan Iftikhar (RNS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a lengthy address at a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday (Aug. 15) titled “Understanding the Threat: Radical Islam and […]
US Lutherans approve document recognizing agreement with Catholic Church
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Castle Church door, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. has approved […]
What It Takes to Build a Mosque in New Hampshire
Source: Bloomberg After 18 years and $1.5 million, the Islamic Society is still struggling to build its own place of worship. By Bill Donahue | August 16, 2016 Photographs by […]
Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing Imam and Assistant Near Mosque
Source: The New York Times By RICK ROJAS, LIZ ROBBINS, NOAH REMNICK and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers […]
Trump proposes ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung August 15 at 6:57 PM Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against “radical Islamic terror,” repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls — including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrants — and blaming the current […]