Source: CNN (CNN)Was it a coming-out party for atheists or a funeral dirge for the religious right? In an election year full of questions, Super Tuesday raised a few more, as voters in 12 states went to the polls and the GOP’s Donald Trump and Democrats’ Hillary Clinton emerged as […]
Source: The New York Times By Thomas L. Friedman When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet […]
Source: Huffington Post By EHAB AL SHIHABI Media Advisor and Senior Fellow (politics, media and policy) The opinion expressed here are his and do not reflect those of his employer The […]
Source: CNN (CNN)This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare make such utterances about any other religious minority group. Still, in the midst of the vitriol and alarming political rhetoric, […]
Source: BBC European Council President Donald Tusk is due to visit Greece and Turkey as he tries to find a common approach to Europe’s worsening migration crisis. Mr Tusk has […]
Daily Times: LAHORE – Pope Francis has accepted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s invitation to visit Pakistan this year, a media reported said on Thursday. The last pope to have visited […]
ibtimes.co.uk: After nearly a dozen reported attacks on mosques across Sweden in 2015, a mosque was flooded with red paper hearts in a show of solidarity for Muslims. People posted […]
der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-limits-of-humanity-merkel-refugee-policies-have-failed-a-1079455.html#ref=nl-international From today’s perspective, Sept. 5, 2015, feels like an eternity ago. That was the day when the chancellor made the decision to allow refugees who had been detained in Hungary to come to Germany. It was the day when she decided to adopt a humanitarian refugee policy […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I had issued this challenge originally in November of 2015. However, now that Dr. Carson has […]
An Ahmadi believer was stabbed to death near Punjab’s Sheikhupura district on Tuesday. According to details, two unidentified assailants attacked Qamarul Zia, 35, as he came out of his house in Kot Abdul Malik […]
Source: The Washington Post They may not hold the same views on race, but even black and white extremists sometimes agree. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, praised Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday for, as Farrakhan put it, not accepting money from the Jewish community — comments delivered just […]
Source: BBC A haven for expats and loved by locals, Geneva attracts people from around the world for its economic opportunity, lakeside beauty and Mont Blanc views. Home to more […]
Source: The Huffington Post When I made the decision to move to Canada, I was terrified. I feared that I would not be able to get used to life here. […]
Source: BBC Two years ago an astounding new discovery shook up the field of early human evolution. The bones of a new species of extinct hominin called Homo naledi were discovered in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa and unveiled to the world in September 2015. The new species had […]
CNN This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare […]
Source: BBC The European Union is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of euros on humanitarian aid, as Greece struggles to cope with an influx of migrants. Under plans to […]
Source: Reuters The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film “Spotlight”, which took home this year’s Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of […]
Source: The New York Times ROME — When Pope Francis was chosen to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics three years ago, he pledged to reform antiquated and troubledVatican institutions. He formed an inner circle of nine cardinals as his closest advisers, appointed a commission to deal with sexual abuse […]
Source: The New York Times A combat soldier who is Sikh sued the Defense Department on Monday, saying his beard and turban had made him the subject of religious discrimination […]
Source: The Washington Post At a rally in southwest Virginia on Monday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump again told an apocryphal story about a general killing Muslim terrorists with bullets dipped […]