Source: Time By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is the author of the […]
Source: CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN)All U.S. Navy sailors in Japan are banned from drinking alcohol and restricted to base except for essential trips after several recent alcohol-related incidents […]
Source: BBC By Elizabeth Garone Karl Moore remembers the moment he fell out of favour with his boss. He was working as a manager at IBM in Toronto when a […]
Source: BBC A Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday, Ukrainian officials say. […]
Ottawa, Ontario 5 June 2016 The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Ramadan: “Muslims in Canada and around the world will embark upon a month-long spiritual […]
BEIJING: China has marked the start of Ramazan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the holy month started on Monday.Muslims eat meals as they break fast on the first day of the holy fasting […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan | June 16, 2015 | 3 Comments When the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan begins later this week, some Muslims around the world […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly; @katiemacreilly Former President Bill Clinton will give the eulogy at Muhammad Ali’s funeral, which will take place next Friday in the boxing champion’s hometown of […]
By AFP – Jun 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants sit facing the sea near the former international airport in Athens, currently used as a temporary camp for migrants and refugees on Sunday (AFP photo) VIENNA — Asylum seekers to the European Union should be held on islands rather than […]
Ramadan mubarak! Jun 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The holy month of Ramadan has just begun and the new government is taking measures to help people during the fasting month; it had, for example, made control of prices, which usually go up during Ramadan, one of its early priorities. On […]
By Gaelle Sundelin – Jun 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Haider’s small hands struggle to find the edge of the brown scotch-tape roll. The 12-year old is not putting the final touches to some science project or building a kite. He is taping the window panes of his […]
June 6 — The Ramadan month is here again as it does every year. Every Sunni Muslim knows that fasting is required during the month of Ramadan, it is one of the five pillars of his faith. He knows how to fast, when to break fast and what to do […]
Quran Verses about Ramadan and fasting The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for the people O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous [2:183] [Fasting for] a […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse in Dhaka A Christian was knifed to death after Sunday prayers near a church in northwestBangladesh in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Police said […]
Source: Gulf News Tokyo: A 96-year-old Japanese man has entered the Guinness World Records after becoming the oldest person in the world to receive a university degree, officials said on Sunday. Shigemi Hirata, who lives in Takamatsu, received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and Design from Kyoto University […]
Source: ABC News By CANDACE SMITH Donald Trump, already facing bi-partisan backlash for his comments suggesting a judge of Mexican descent is unfit to preside over a lawsuit filed against Trump University because of “bias,” has gone further, suggesting that a Muslim judge would also not be able to treat […]
Source: ABC News In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone […]
Source: Aljazeera By Mir Ubaid New York, US – Ahmet Kargi, 40, rolls up his sleeves, revealing a tattoo on his right arm – a white crescent and star inside a […]
Source: Aljazeera Israeli police deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem to secure an annual march marking Israel’s 1967 invasion and subsequent occupation of the Palestinian-dominated eastern half of the city, which […]
Source: Tribune A Muslim group has urged the United States Department of Transportation to take action to address the profiling of Muslims, people of colour, and persons perceived to be […]