To deter designs on holy sites

Mar 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The minister of awqaf and Islamic affairs stressed on Sunday that 55 surveillance cameras will be installed in and around Al Haram Al Sharif compound, which houses Al Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem, to record Israeli violations and excesses against the Islamic holy sites. […]

AIPAC’s anti-BDS campaign

Mar 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) comes to town this week for its annual policy conference, high on the agenda of issues it will be pushing Congress to support are bills designed to “fight the boycott of Israel”. This campaign […]

Al-Azhar University

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Al-Azhar” redirects here. For other uses, see Al-Azhar (disambiguation). Al-Azhar University جامعة الأزهر (الشريف) Jāmiʻat al-Azhar (al-Sharīf) Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo Egypt Type Public […]

Islamic world had extraordinary effect on medieval philosophers: Charles Taliaferro

Islamic world had extraordinary effect on medieval philosophers: Charles Taliaferro Tehran Times Social Desk TEHRAN —“Muslim world had made such extraordinary headway in mathematics, algebra, medicine, and the sciences in general, it was inevitable that its philosophical contribution needed to be taken seriously by medieval philosophers,” Charles Taliaferro tells the […]

Being Muslim Is Not a Political Statement

Source: Huffington Post By Sabrina Sultana; Student, Bard College It is becoming increasingly common in anti-Muslim rhetoric to claim Islam as a political ideology, instead of a Muslim faith. The increase in suspicion and fear towards Muslims fuels this idea as people begin to immediately associate Islam with violence. As […]