Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
ISIS Claims Kabul Bombing, 80 Dead
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Munich gunman inspired by rightwing Breivik
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
Ahmadi (Muslim) man gives call to prayer at White House
Tribune: Although the Ahmadi community is one of the most persecuted minorities in Pakistan, they enjoy religious freedom and full rights in the United States. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney and […]
Obama: Trump’s doom-and-gloom doesn’t match reality
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)The deeply pessimistic outlook that Donald Trump offered at this week’s Republican National Convention doesn’t match reality, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday. Noting he didn’t watch […]
Munich shooting: 10 killed in shopping centre attack
A man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the German city of Munich killed himself, and likely acted alone, police have said. At least 10 people, including the possible suspect, were killed in Friday’s attack on the Olympia shopping centre, a police spokesman said early on Saturday. […]
Group says Muslim passenger was removed from American Airlines flight because of bias
Source: The Washington Post By Fredrick Kunkle A Muslim civil rights organization is asking the Department of Transportation to investigate the removal of a passenger from an American Airlines flight […]
US, allies say they’re at key moment in fight against IS
Source: Associated Press By RADLEY KLAPPER WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its anti-Islamic State coalition allies said Thursday they’ve reached a key moment in their campaign to defeat the […]
Justice Department: Bensalem discriminates against Muslims
Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER by Justine McDaniel, Staff Writer Bensalem Township has temples, synagogues, and churches, but in 2014 Bucks County’s largest municipality declined to grant a permit for a mosque. That, said the U.S. Justice Department in a suit filed Thursday, constituted religious discrimination. The suit seeks to have […]
A field of 50,000 illuminated flowers
Source: BBC By Rowena Henley Deep within Australia’s vast desert, a tremendous tower of rock has been forming for some 600 million years. For Aborigines, Uluru is sacred, full of […]
New Gorilla Glass helps prevent phone smashes
Source: BBC By Dave Lee North America technology reporter Dropping your smartphone when taking a selfie could soon be less risky, says specialist glass maker Corning. It has launched its next […]
Tackling the Ever Present Question of Suffering from Agnostics’ and Atheists’ Works
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I recently had dinner with a friend of mine, who is an agnostic and is a professor of […]
5 Common Stereotypes About Muslims, Debunked
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Source: The Huffington Post By Kareeda Kabir Student, Human, Writer Yet another tragedy has fallen upon […]
Jon Stewart Takes Over Colbert’s Late Show Desk to Tackle Republican Convention
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
Discrimination against Muslims an affront of American values: Obama
Source: Reuters President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the contributions of Muslim immigrants to the United States, saying any effort to discriminate against the Islamic faith plays into the hands […]
Kelvin MacKenzie, we’re sick of your toxic propaganda. Fatima Manji is admirable
theguardian: by Ramona Aly — Complaints are pouring in after the Sun’s columnist criticised the headscarf-wearing newsreader. He’s manipulating an already volatile anti-Muslim climate ‘As a British, Asian, Muslim woman who wears a headscarf, it makes me utterly proud to see Manji breaking through stereotypes and glass ceilings to front […]
Another horrible example of herd mentality: The man hired to have sex with children
Source: BBC In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it’s traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a “hyena” once they […]
Mumbai: Zakir Naik aid arrested
Mumbai, July 22: The arrest of Arshi Qureshi in Navi Mumbai is expected to provide more leads into the functioning of the Islamic Research Foundation founded by the controversial Islamic preacher, Dr Zakir Naik. In a joint operation the Kerala and Mumbai Police arrested Qureshi from his residence in Navi […]
BBC: Organisms May be Quantum Machines
Source: BBC By Martha Henriques Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties If there’s any subject […]
Video: Could Donald Trump Pass a Sanity Test?
Keith Olbermann provides his decidedly amateur analysis. Source: Vanity Fair Short answer: probably not. First, several important caveats. There is little worse and nothing cheesier than questioning the psychological stability […]