Source: Britbrat, London By Liam Deacon Spanish schools plan to “tackle extremism” by segregating Muslim students and teaching them more about the Koran and Islam, according to new government guidelines. Critics […]
CBC Manitoba revealed another ten Future 40 finalists today, including a video game developer, a former United Nations delegate, an Indigenous artist and seven others. CBC Manitoba’s Future 40 highlights […]
Source: CBC History was made in Monday night’s provincial election, according to Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. For the first time, a candidate who is Muslim has been elected to the […]
Source: Pakistantoday.com.pk By Ayesha Khalid; who is pursuing an Mphil in Public Policy and Governance from FCC. She is a graduate of Kinnaird College, with a degree in Economics. Whether […]
FP: ISIS’ declaration of an Islamic State begs a fundamental question: When and how did that concept become a part of the political vocabulary of Muslim societies? After all, the idea hasn’t been around forever, and its popularity has waxed and waned over time. In fact, its emergence and popularity […]
Muslims have been coming to the US for centuries, but you wouldn’t know it by the intense debates that continue to surround the movement of Muslims across international borders. Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have called for the US to effectively ban Syrian refugees from entering […]
From film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to corporates including DLF owner K P Singh and nine members of his family, and the promoters of Apollo Tyres and Indiabulls to Gautam Adani’s elder brother Vinod Adani. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/panama-papers-list-amitabh-bachchan-kp-singh-aishwarya-rai-iqbal-mirchi-adani-brother/ More than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack […]
A Muslim private school in the UK distributed leaflets condemning British society and reproducing anti-Semitic libels, according to an exclusive expose by Sky News. Mufti Zubair Dudha, the founder and head of the Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury in northen England, produced the leaflets. One quotes the famous anti-Semitic forgery ‘The Protocols […]
What if? What if you hadn’t taken a class with the stranger who became your partner? Or gotten that career-altering job? Or met the mentor who shepherded you through […]
Source: Pew Forum More countries restrict women’s ability to wear religious symbols or attire than require women to dress a certain way In many countries around the world, women’s choices […]
Source: Yahoo News GENEVA (AFP) – Male Muslim students at a school in northern Switzerland will no longer have to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that […]
Source: The Washington Post By Perry Stein Hallie Martinez stood in front of a large easel reading foreign letters that, a few months ago, would have looked like just a […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Tennessee lawmakers vote for Bible as state’s official book Source: Associated Press By ERIK SCHELZIG NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — […]
Source: Time By Mark Sherman / AP (WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts. […]
Source: Motto By Amy Morin When faced with tough circumstances, you may think that you’re unprepared to deal with life’s inevitable challenges. But you don’t have to wave the white flag just yet. Throughout my 14 years as a psychotherapist and while researching my book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People […]
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar It’s hard to know where to start in tallying up the explosive revelations in the Panama Papers, an analysis of leaked documentsfrom global law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Yes, we’ve known for a while now that the shadow […]
Source: Yahoo News By Charles Q. Choi The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more […]
Source: BBC India’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the first time this year. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate to 6.5% from […]
Source: BBC By David Baker Technology journalist As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can “read” photos and tell visually impaired people what appears […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Vitamin D supplements may help people with diseased hearts, a study suggests. A trial on 163 heart failure patients found […]