Can We Stop Talking About ‘Radical Islam’ and Get To The Elephant in The Room?
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: Huffington Post […]
The Hollow Alliance
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer The historic concord between the U.S. and Europe made the West safe and rich. Now it’s in danger of collapse For decades, the transatlantic partnership has been crucial tointernational security and the stability of the global economy. Through organizations like NATO, U.S. and European leaders have […]
5 Cheap and Easy Father’s Day Gifts That Dads Actually Want
Source: Money By Brad Tuttle Over the years, I’ve taken it upon myself to speak for dads everywhere around this time of year by ranting about what’s wrong with Father’s Day […]
Apple won’t aid GOP convention over Trump
Source: Politico By TONY ROMM Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it’s done in the past, […]
Canada Legalizes Physician-Assisted Dying
Source: NPR By MERRIT KENNEDY After weeks of debate, Canadian lawmakers have passed legislation to legalize physician-assisted death. That makes Canada “one of the few nations where doctors can legally help […]
Exclusive: Meet the World’s First Baby Born With an Assist from Stem Cells
Source: Time By Alice Park This newborn is the first baby in the world born using a breakthrough IVF treatment Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected to be born this summer through a technique that some […]
Domestic Violence Permitted by the so called Islamic Scholars
By Dr. Lutf ur Rehman, Nashville, USA Recently in Pakistan, the Punjab Assembly passed a law which would make it easier for the women to report domestic violence, abuse and […]
If Hamza Ali Abbasi deserves to die then why didn’t anyone kill Jinnah?
As much as Jinnah is revered now even by religious groups, what many people don’t know or overlook is that throughout his political life Jinnah shared a close affinity with […]
Orlando: the trials of identity
Source. ET Tornados can wreak plenty of havoc though they can be predicted. But what do you do when deadly weather patterns become wholly unpredictable. One moment you’re lying on a beach, next moment you’re running for your life. This seems more like the case now with religion-inspired terrorism. Calm […]
Ramadan support group a ‘very Toronto type of community’
Ramadan support group a ‘very Toronto type of community’ | Toronto Star Pacinthe Mattar can’t forget about her “worst Ramadan on record.”Ramadan support group a ‘very Toronto type of community’ | Toronto Star Pacinthe Mattar (right), says that during Ramadan in “Muslim majority countries . . . you feel like […]
Greed and desire: The new face of Ramazan?
Source.Dawn.Com Remember everything your parents, grandparents, maulvi sahab and Islamiyat teacher taught you about Ramazan? Now try and forget it please because there seems to be no room for those teachings anymore in this country. Tune in to one of our many local Ramazan transmissions on television and learn everything […]
The Woman Who Might Change The Future Of Sports
Source. Mvslim.com Leader. Professional basketball player. Inspirer. Motivational speaker. President of Global Aktivne. Humble and admirable human being. These are merely some of the many influential and resilient titles Indira […]
“Muslim Sounding Names”
Source.MVSLIM.COM Multiple sources have now confirmed that Omar Mateen, the shooter of the Orlando massacre, was himself gay. He often visited Pulse, the popular gay nightclub that he committed the massacre in. Eyewitness reports suggest that Mateen would get so drunk at the bar that bouncers would have to kick […]
Here’s how Twitter reacted to PEMRA’s ban on Hamza Ali Abbasi
By Life&Style Published: June 18, 2016 As the ineffable media policing continues. PHOTO: FASHIONCENTRAL Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) surprised the Pakistani audience yesterday by banning actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Ramazan transmission. The ban was imposed over violation of the media regulator’s code of conduct as Pemra found Hamza […]
Hamza Ali Abbasi and the issue of Ahmadis
By Saqib Gul | ثاقب گل @SaqibGul01 The moment Hamza Ali Abbasi announced to conduct a program for Ahmadis he has been subject to fury from Muslims. Such a reaction is […]
Switzerland: The national football team’s broken spell
OPINION By Luca Geisseler JUN 17, 2016 – 17:48 (Marina Lutz) It was ages ago. Yet it could have been yesterday. In 2008, to prepare for the Euro football championships that Switzerland would co-host, the national football team trained in Lugano. Just like they did eight years later. Their final […]
80% of hotel rooms in Makkah reserved
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 18 June 2016 Paid reservations reached 124,000 rooms, of a total of 155,000 rooms in the central area for the first 10 days of Ramadan. (SPA) MAKKAH: Reservations at hotels in the central area in Makkah registered their highest operational capacity this year, […]
Federal plan for northern Syria advances with US-backed forces
By Reuters – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February11, file photo, school boys play in a street in Aleppo, Syria. After four years of grinding battles, Aleppo divided residents face a common fear as the prospect of a total siege looms. Syria’s largest city used to be […]
Is a new plot against Iraq being hatched?
Sat June 18, 2016 By Hassan Lasjerdi June 18, 2016 As Iraqi forces along Popular Mobilization Forces also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi are engaged in fierce clash with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group and have so far been able to deal major blows to […]
Michigan Muslims move toward Clinton
Source: Politico By KATIE GLUECK 06/16/16 09:37 AM EDT Hillary Clinton wasn’t the first choice of Dearborn’s Muslims. But thanks to Donald Trump’s escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric she’s quickly moving into […]