Who Speaks For the 1.6 Billion Muslims?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we have countless experts in the West, in almost […]
Bangladesh Court Rejects Removing Islam as State Religion
By JULHAS ALAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS, abcnews.go.com DHAKA, Bangladesh — Mar 28, 2016, 7:58 AM ET Bangladesh’s top court rejected a 28-year-old petition Monday to remove Islam as the official religion of the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. The decision by the three-judge High Court panel had been widely expected. The court said the 15-member group […]
Children say: ‘Extremism and Terrorism are Satanic Religions’
Terrorists are Satanists, psychopath, inhuman and corrupt people, follow no religion. “We feel sad and gloomy for heartbroken families of Brussels terrorist’s attacks”, say young children, Moorside and Heaton Manor schools, Newcastle, at AMAN’s forum. Report by Nabeela Ali, Bureau Chief Newcastle Anti radicalization Mentoring and Awareness Network has organized […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chicago celebrates Maseeh-e-Moud Day – A Report
Messiah has come to promote peace. -Imam Shamshad. Report by: Nadeem Raza Chicago Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chicago West (North & South) celebrated Masih Moud Day on March 20th 2016. A good gathering of the people from the community attended this event. The program comprised of recitation and English translation […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chicago condemnS Brussels attack
“The religion of Islam which doesn’t permit to waste water, how that religion can permit shedding blood?” -Imam Shamshad A. Nasir (Chicgo) Belgium, a symbol of love, respect and peace in the European world, has been attacked by ISIS. Death toll has reached 31 while 300 people got injured. Such […]
How Would Muhammad Treat the Christian Brethren and Sisters?
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Pakistanis Hunt For Militants Behind Lahore Easter Bombing
Source: Huffington Post LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities launched a hunt on Monday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that […]
Where the US presidential candidates stand on foreign policy
Source: Aljazeera The 2016 presidential election in the United States may lead to a sea change in foreign policy. Each of the five main Republican and Democratic candidates have their own opinions on how to handle issues from Israel/Palestine to relations with Russia. The way the next US president […]
Pakistan army called in to quell blasphemy law protest
Source: Aljazeera Thousands of protesters have clashed with police near parliament in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the execution of a man charged with murdering a governor for his criticism […]
American, Muslim, and under constant watch: the emotional toll of surveillance
Source: The Guardian By Rose Hackman Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward […]
Prominent Muslims call for unity after Glasgow shopkeeper’s killing
Source: The Guardian Prominent members of Glasgow’s Muslim community have called for calm and solidarity following the fatal stabbing of a shopkeeper whose messages of interfaith harmony united his multicultural […]
These Tory messages show us why faith has no place in politics
Source: The Guardian Britain is a Christian country, David Cameron has taken to asserting each Easter. In terms of sheer numbers, this is not true. There are more people who […]
“This is not the radicalization of Islam, but the Islamization of radicalism”
France’s Oedipal Islamist Complex http://foreignpolicy.com/: France is at war! Perhaps. But against whom or what? Last November, when the Islamic State staged the shootings that killed 130 in Paris, it did not send Syrians. A year ago, when al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula purportedly ordered the deadly attack on […]
Muslim Leader Condemns West’s Regime Change Policies, Supports Russia’s Approach to Islamic World
Russia-Insider.com: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 address to a number of high profile members of the UK government including cabinet minister Justine Greening, London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and former attorney general […]
The west’s Islamophobia is only helping the Islamic State
Washington Post: The promise of the “global war on terror” was that “it was better to fight them there than here.” That promise brought mass violence to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and Somalia — in the name of peace in the West. That formula has clearly failed. Tuesday’s bombings in […]
What does Saudi Arabia want for Yemen and Syria?
Aljazeera: A year on from the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in Yemen and five years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, what is Saudi Arabia’s endgame? In this week’s UpFront, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations, to […]
Modern films—like the Gospels—both write and interpret Jesus’s life
Economist: THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least 39 movies had already taken on the subject. Many treat Jesus specifically as Christ, […]
Lahore: Taliban’s attack on Easter targets Christians; 67 people killed
By Sophia Saifi, CNN Updated 6:51 PM ET, Sun March 27, 2016 | Video Source: CNN (CNN)A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Easter Sunday, saying it intentionally targeted Christians. The suicide blast in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 67 […]
Video Debate that May Have Triggered Pope Benedict’s Resignation
Intelligence Squared Debate The Catholic Church Is A Force For Good In The World Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an author, essayist, orator, religious and […]