Source: Associated Press By SAM McNEIL and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has banned a performance by a popular Lebanese rock band on religious grounds, spurring criticism of […]
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) While Germany’s politicians are loudly debating whether Islam is compatible with democracy, five of its state universities are quietly developing pioneering new Islamic theology […]
Source: Reuters BY HNIN YADANA ZAW AND TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN Hundreds of demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, denounced the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar’s stateless Muslim community during a protest outside of the U.S. embassy in Yangon on Thursday. The Rohingya, most of whom live […]
Source: Yahoo News New Delhi (AFP) – A group of hardline Hindu activists and police stormed a church in central India and stopped a wedding midway after accusing the pastor […]
Source: The Guardian Heather Stewart Political editor Jeremy Corbyn has caved in to pressure and suspended Naz Shah, the Bradford West MP, over remarks she made about Israel on Facebook. Shortly before he faced David Cameron in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon Corbyn had issued a statement saying […]
Source: BBC At least 14 patients and three doctors have been killed in an air strike on a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the charity Medecins sans Frontieres […]
Source: BBC It’s a sight that tends to draw mixed responses. For some people, a rugged, windswept farmland scattered with scores of giant wind turbines is beautiful, futuristic spectacle. To […]
Source: Time By Mark Thompson GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump strode from a domestic political campaign to the international stage Wednesday where he declaredhe would restore what he sees as America’s diminished standing in the world. But he offered no details on how he would do it. He insisted his deal-making […]
Source: iPolitics By Amira Elghawaby Social media was buzzing this week over a new Environics poll of Canadian Muslims. It should have served to dismiss a lot of poisonous misperceptions […]
During the financial crisis, the central banks of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan created $3.7 trillion in order to buy assets and encourage investors to do the same. […]
Source: Rabwah Times. ©TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD (Fair usage under educational & non-profit purposes ) Leader of the Scottish National Party in UK Parliament, Angus Robertson met with the leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the community’s headquarters in London on Wednesday, April 27th. During a Parliament session on April, 20th […]
When Ameera Harouda hears the sounds of bombs or shells, she heads straight towards them. “I want to be there first because these stories should be told,” says Gaza’s first […]
Source: Zero Hedge Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2014 THE WORLD’S UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE Houston…We have a problem!…Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on […]
Huff Post: by Ian Mevorack – Theologian, minister, ethicist, and activist; co-founder of Common Street Spiritual Center (www.commonstreet.org). Part 1: The time has come for Christians and Muslims to make peace between our communities. Christians and Muslims already make up more than half of the global population, and these numbers […]
THE PHENOMENON of Islamist terrorism has received considerable attention in recent times. Pointing to a trend of increasing radicalisation of Indian Muslims, Indian intelligence has expressed concern that it is becoming a paramount national security issue. However, in looking at Islamist fundamentalism as one of the causes for communal polarisation […]
Alaa Murabit’s family moved from Canada to Libya when she was 15. Before, she’d felt equal to her brothers, but in this new environment she sensed big prohibitions on what […]
A headstrong grandee had obtained from the Sultan the rights of share-cropping on the land occupied by Nasrudin. When the Court clerk asked him what crop he wanted to share, he merely said: ‘Just put in “whatever is above the ground”.’ He presented himself at the Mulla’s house with the […]
By Reuters – Apr 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UN Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria Staffan de Mistura gestures prior to a round of negotiations between the Syria’s regime-tolerated opposition (Moscow-Cairo group) and the UN, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on […]
Varied views on whether Quran should influence laws in countries BY JACOB POUSHTER As strife in the Middle East continues to make headlines, from the militant group ISIS to Syrian refugees, the Muslim world is sharply divided on what the relationship should be between the tenets of Islam and the […]
Source: CBC Findings of Environics Institute survey reveal a community that’s not so different from other Canadians The cover page of a new study on Muslims in Canada features six […]