Guardian: There are 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide, and Muhammad, or one of its variants, is the most common name in the world. In America, 3.3 million people identify as Muslim, according to a recent Pew study. While former GOP contender Ben Carson would “absolutely not agree” with the US being […]
NY Times: As the military and political battle against the Islamic State escalates, Muslim imams and scholars in the West are fighting on another front — through theology. Imam Suhaib Webb, a Muslim leader in Washington, has held live monthly video chats to refute the religious claims of the Islamic […]
KARACHI: Names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies have surfaced in one of the world’s biggest ever data leaks through an online searchable database made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) late Monday evening. http://www.dawn.com/news/1257275/259-pakistanis-named-in-fresh-panama-papers-leak The names in the latest release of documents on the websiteoffshoreleaks.icij.org include: Abdul […]
By Matt Atherton May 9, 2016 17:59 BST ibtimes.co.uk An artificial ‘second skin’ that reduces the appearance of wrinkles has been created by scientists. The synthetic skin has been shown to restore the youthful appearance of skin by temporarily tightening and protecting it − a discovery that has implications for both […]
Report by: Mirza Mashhood “Islam Teaches Love, Respect, Harmony and tolerance in the society”, said Imam shamshad Friday, May 6th, 2016: Imam Shamshad and few members from Ahmadiyya Mosque “Baitul Jaamay” in Glen Ellyn Chicago area, were invited by a local Synagogue in Lombard “Congregation ETZ Chaim” located at 1710 […]
Source: Aljazeera By Angela Singh Couffo, Benin – As the hazy morning air lifts, a group of villagers dance into focus, kicking up dust as they make their way down a […]
Reuters International May 10, 2016 – 02:45 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, suggested on Monday he would make an exception for London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, the New York Times reported. “There will always […]
Family trusts US tax havens – the new Switzerland? By Kara Scannell and Vanessa Houlder May 9, 2016 – 09:14 What would the former US presidents have made of South Dakota’s status as a booming tax haven? (Keystone) After pursuing Swiss banks for helping Americans hide money, the United States […]
By AFP – May 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES People wait to board a bus as they are transferred to a different location, at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek border village of Idomeni, on Monday (Reuters photo) UNITED NATIONS — A new UN plan to tackle […]
By Reuters – May 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems are seen during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia rolled out an air defence missile system of the kind used to […]
May 09,2016 – Jordan Times – Yanis Varoufakis The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would […]
May 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY In some of my writings, I observed the way the US has, for centuries, absorbed countless waves of immigrants from many continents, transforming them, in short order, into Americans — comparing this to the situation in Europe, which does not, as a […]
Source: Jordan Times AMMAN — Human dignity must be the highest priority above all else, HRH Prince Hassan, the chairman of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies’ (RIIFS) board of […]
Source: Guardian London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said he will visit the US before this year’s presidential elections “in case Donald Trump wins”, in a reference to the presumptive […]
Source: BBC By Nick Triggle, Health correspondent When it comes to understanding the challenge facing the nation on obesity, yoghurt is a good place to start. It’s one of the most […]
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN RANDALL ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Dalai Lama, who tirelessly preaches inner peace while chiding people for their selfish, materialistic ways, has commissioned scientists […]
Source: Reuters BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA | BY GORDANA KATANA AND MAJA ZUVELA Thousands of Muslims flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb region on Saturday for the reopening of a historic mosque destroyed during wartime, a ceremony seen as encouraging religious tolerance among deeply divided communities. Twenty years after the […]
Source: Associated Press By SHAWN POGATCHNIK DUBLIN (AP) — London’s newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public […]
Source: The Washington Post By Niraj Chokshi Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore already lost his job once. Now he’s at risk of losing it again. A state commission on Friday suspended Moore from […]
Source: Chicago Tribune By Manya Brachear Pashman Contact Reporter On the bucolic Mundelein campus that houses a theological university and the largest Roman Catholic seminary in the U.S., there are 220 […]