‘Let’s All Make a Conscious Choice to Rise Above Gender Bias’
Source: Motto By Jody Greenstone Miller | Amelia Miller Every few years, there’s a new crop of theories that purport to explain why women aren’t as professionally successful as men. […]
Early Iran Election Results Point to Gains by Moderates
Source: Time Reformists and moderates favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West (TEHRAN, Iran) — Partial election results in Iran on Saturday point to major gains by reformists and moderates who favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West, and who defended the recently implemented nuclear deal with world […]
Muslims need a new definition of Islam in order to survive
Quartz: A few weeks back I was in a mosque, decrying the scourge of sectarianism. (I’d been invited to speak, to be clear: I wasn’t just monologuing uninvited.) In too many places, I noted, Sunni and Shia Muslims are not just at odds with each other, they’re at war. To […]
Pastor in China Who Resisted Cross Removal Gets 14 Years in Prison
Source: The New York Times By Edward Wong A court in southeastern China has sentenced a Protestant pastor to 14 years in prison and his wife to 12 years after […]
3 young Muslim Americans killed in mysterious ‘execution-style’ murders
Early on Wednesday evening, as the sun began to set and the air cooled to just below freezing, police arrived at a unremarkable white home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a few blocks from the campus of Indiana Tech. We do not yet know who called them or what they expected. […]
50 sacred destinations you need to experience in your lifetime
Kaaba: The very first house of God according to the Holy Quran The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: The Huffington post authors did not include Kaaba, perhaps because Saudi Arabia Government […]
Iran election: Reformists win all 30 Tehran seats
Source: BBC Allies of Iran’s reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, have won a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first elections since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers. With […]
South Carolina primary: Huge win for Clinton over Sanders
Source: BBC Hillary Clinton has secured a big win over Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary, the latest battleground in the race to be Democratic presidential nominee. Victory for […]
Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets
Source: Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found […]
On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Sharia Councils
Source: Princeton Press Book written by John R. Bowen, who is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include A New Anthropology […]
Buffalo Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Promoting Secularism and Freedom of Speech
Watch the proceedings online today, March 20, 2016 Source: Nasir Khan; President, Buffalo Chapter Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Buffalo Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold its next conference […]
Reflections of a Muslim American
Source: Huffington Post As a Muslim American for the last two decades, my belief in my adopted homeland has grown stronger and stronger with each trial that has tested the […]
“Good” Muslim, “Evil” Islam Dichotomy
Source: Huffington Post Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is […]
Syria: US, Russia-brokered ceasefire goes into effect; ISIS, Nusra Front excluded
Source: Indian Express A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country’s […]
Watch A Little Girl’s Heart Break When She Learns Obama Won’t Be President Forever
Source: Huffington Post No one is taking the end of Barack Obama’s presidency harder than this little girl. Caprina D. Harris posted a video of her granddaughter on Facebook on Monday, showing the child sobbing uncontrollably over the news that there is an election coming up, and Obama is not […]
Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals
Source: The Guardian The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs. The […]
The Sentencing of a Toddler Shows How Out of Control Egypt’s Security State Has Become
Source: Time The three-year-old boy erroneously sentenced to jail is only the worst in a series of atrocities by Egypt’s security officials A military court mistakenly sentences a toddler to […]
6 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christianity And Sex
Christianity’s history with sex is much more complicated than you might think. By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that […]
Punjab in Pakistan: Fundamentalist Tableeghi Jamaat Banned
Source: Daily Times Do you not think the Tableeghi Jamaat (TJ) is elusive? Ask any common person to name the top five leaders of the organisation. They will not know. […]
Good Morning America Oscar Predictions Panel, Adnan Virk’s 2016 Oscar Predictions
https://twitter.com/GMA The work of Virk: Predicting the real Oscars and the ESPN version By Emily Pfeffer 2 days ago Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter <!– –> Since 2013, College Football analyst and Baseball Tonight studio host Adnan Virk is a known movie buff. He has shared his yearly Oscar […]