Source: RNS HOUSTON (RNS) For the last 12 years I have worked as an election clerk in my precinct, which has about 4,300 registered voters. I greet voters, confirm their registration status and send them to the booth. My precinct is about 4 square miles in size, so the […]
Source: RNS (Reuters) Governor Mike Pence signed a bill into law making Indiana only the second state to prohibit abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome. The bill, which was approved by the state Republican-led legislature, bans any disability-related abortion along with terminations of pregnancy […]
Source: RNS The Qur’an opens not with the story of creation, but with the opening. The beginning of the Qur’an is not: “In the beginning Allah created the heavens and […]
Source: Toronto Sun By Luqman Ahmed An imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada. He currently works with the Muslim Community in Quebec. We woke up Tuesday morning to yet another horrific terrorist attack at the hands of ISIS radicals — this time the target was the airport and a […]
Source: Time An understanding of true Islam can help stop terrorist acts ISIS extremists and anti-Islam activists fundamentally ignore and misrepresent the Qur’an. It should come as no surprise that after suffering beatings for nearly a year as a ISIS hostage, freed French journalist Didier Francois reported: There was never […]
Source: Time TIME columnist Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is also a celebrated author, filmmaker and education ambassador whose life and career are […]
By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 23:51 GMT, 24 March 2016 She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a beacon of saintly integrity in the West who remained under house arrest for 15 years in her native Burma. However, there is another side to Burmese politician Aung […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local): 10.00 p.m. A spokesman for the Punjab government says that a bomb attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed 60 people and injured 300. Zaeem […]
Source. Mirror Detectives probing the murder of a popular shopkeeper believe his killer may have travelled from 200 miles away to launch a premeditated attack. They are investigating the theory the attacker became enraged over faith-related posts 40-year-old Asad Shah had made on social media. Asad was a member of […]
Morgan Freeman visits the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the old city of Jerusalem where the tomb of Jesus is believed to be located. The Muslim Times has the […]
By Reuters Published: March 27, 2016 MEXICO CITY: Mexicans celebrating an Easter ritual late on Saturday burnt effigies of U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant views have sparked outrage south of the American border. Craftsman Felipe Linares puts the final touch to an effigy depicting Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald […]
Murdered by fellow Muslims, Asad Shah was a shopkeeper in Glasgow PHOTO: BBC A British-Pakistani shopkeeper in Glasgow succumbed to his wounds after being stabbed by a fellow Muslim on Thursday for posting social media messages wishing his customers a Happy Easter. Asad Shah, 40, was stabbed 30 times by […]
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees on Thursday and declared them all children of the same God Pope Washes Feet of Muslim Migrants, Says ‘We Are Brothers’ Castelnuovo Di Porto Mar 24, 2016) Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, […]
In the words of Blaise Pascal, mathematician and Catholic, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” Does religion breed intolerance, […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection to refute Islamophobia Source: Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr. An open letter to American Muslims: In April 1944, a Cpl. Rupert Trimmingham […]
Exclusive by Peter Swindon, Group Investigations Writer Sunday 27 March 2016 / News The family of a Pakistan-born man who died following a suspected “religiously prejudiced” attack linked to sectarian tensions within the Scottish Muslim community have spoken of their fears for their own safety. Shopkeeper Asad Shah, 40, […]
PNN/ Jerusalem/ The chief of the Yisrael Beytenu right-wing party, Avigdor Liberman, has requested to visit the Israeli soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian in Hebron on Thursday. According to […]
SULTAN AL-SUGHAIR Published — Sunday 27 March 2016 ALKHOBAR: When a Middle Eastern man falls in love with an American woman, not only do their cultures clash, but they also embark on a whirlwind adventure that spans continents and countries. If their relationship ultimately fails, a custody battle over the […]
Reuters International MAR 27, 2016 – SWISSINFO.CH By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group said, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamic State group which seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. Syrian television quoted […]
ONLINE ACTIVISM A Swiss call to action on refugees MAR 26, 2016 – 17:15 (Keystone) Some Swiss politicians and personalities pressured the government on Saturday to accommodate 50,000 refugees to help ease a crisis in Europe inflamed by the five-year-old war in Syria. In an online petition posted at change.org, […]