Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire
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 […]
Outrage as Muslim pupils exempt from shaking female teachers’ hands in Swiss district
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 […]
A Muslim teacher is visiting a D.C. school to share Arabic and his culture
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 […]
Tennessee lawmakers vote for Bible as state’s official book; but have they read it?
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) — […]
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to ‘One Person, One Vote’
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. […]
7 Ways to Boost Your Mental Strength When You Need it the Most
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 […]
The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
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 […]
Strangely in Sync: Scientists Solve 350-Year-Old Pendulum Clock Mystery
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 […]
India cuts interest rates to five-year low
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 […]
Identity 2016: Facebook lets blind people ‘see’ its photos
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 […]
Vitamin D ‘heals damaged hearts’
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 […]
We’re not taking Islamophobia seriously: This cancerous racism is on the rise — and it’s even more dangerous than you think
Source: Salon By QASIM RASHID This glaring fact was on the world stage this week for all to see. Blasts in Ankara and Brussels garnered shockingly different responses—both in terms of […]
Ask a Question and Get Free Henna
Source: Meridian Booster.com LLOYDMINSTER, Alta. – The Ahmadiya Muslim Women’s Auxiliary of Lloydminster hosted an Ask a Question and Get Free Henna event at the Lloyd Mall on Friday, April 1, in order to continue dialogue with Border City residents. President Rizwana Ahmad said the event was a friendly step towards opening dialogues […]
Pakistani soldier from Ahmadiyya community dies fighting militants in Balochistan.
Source: Defence.Pk 24-year-old Qazi Muhammad Shoukat Ghani died during a firefight in Pakistan’s Southern province of Balochistan. Shoukat, an Ahmadiyya Muslim by faith was a resident of Rabwah and was a sepoy in the Kashmir Regiment. He was killed after his post in the Pasni area of Balochistan came under […]
Glasgow’s scandal plagued central mosque
An overhaul of processes and governance arrangements at a scandal-hit mosque could take several years, according to one of its leading reformists. The lawyer, Aamer Anwar, who chaired an event last week bringing together the various factions of Glasgow Central Mosque, said there was a “sense of urgency” about the […]
A World War Has Begun: Break the Silence
telesurtv.net: by John Pilger — I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask,”Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini,” they say, “You mean […]
Real Peace on Earth
Review of Religions: The political, economic and social unrest in the world is indeed the most critical issue of our time. The disturbances in the Middle East, tensions between North […]
Why the British media is responsible for the rise in Islamophobia in Britain
The Muslim Times has the most extensive collection to refute Islamophobia Source: The Independent By Miqdaad Versi Monday 4 April 2016 67 comments Less than 0.5 per cent of journalists […]
Video: How Jesus Became God, by Prof. Bart Ehrman?
On the dates January 29-31, 2016, Bart D. Ehrman gave three separate lectures to attendees, a series that highlighted his book, “How Jesus Became God.” Rev. Megan Smith opened each […]
Intellectual secularism: The sickness of all times
The human nature and its knowledge is entirely and linearly entwined, overlapping each other and inseparable from each other. With the passage of time, social evolution, in a sense, has […]