Why I Left the Right: How Studying Religion Made Me a Liberal
Source: Huffington Post By Susie Meister PhD in Religious Studies, Host of The Brain Candy Podcast It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush’s inaugural ball. I […]
French special forces waging ‘secret war’ in Libya – report
Reuters International FEB 24, 2016 – 13:18 PARIS (Reuters) – French special forces and intelligence commandos are engaged in covert operations against Islamic State militants in Libya in conjunction with the United States and Britain, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Wednesday. It said President Francois Hollande had authorised […]
Italy blasted over CIA abduction of Imam
In this April 11, 2007 file photo, Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italiancity and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, talks on his mobile phone as he walks in […]
Saudis warned against traveling to Lebanon
•KSA envoy urges Beirut to retain its ‘Arabness’ Lebanese children in battle gear ride a vehicle during the funeral of a Hezbollah militant in south Lebanon in this January 20, 2015 photo. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned their citizens from travel to Lebanon in view of the hostile […]
From child slavery to freedom
Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi It is a blot on the face of humanity that we have yet to eradicate slavery — of children, no less. Not only does child slavery persist; the number of child slaves, 5.5 million, has remained constant in the last two decades. They […]
Short-lived interest in Palestine issue
Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF It has been some time since US Secretary of State John Kerry talked about the two-state solution, illegal Israeli settlements and “tensions” — that should read daily Israeli provocations — at Al Aqsa Mosque compound. This week he met with His […]
Arab summit’s relevance
Feb 23,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The government of Morocco has declined hosting the annual Arab summit due at the end of March in Rabat. The situation in the Arab world and the challenges facing the Arab nation were cited by a Moroccan foreign ministry official as causes of […]
‘Jordan has turned refugee challenge into opportunity’
By Khetam Malkawi – Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Edward Kallon (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) AMMAN — Jordan has been very helpful in facilitating delivery of humanitarian aid to the south of Syria, a UN official has said, as the conflict in the area across the northern border has intensified […]
How Monotheism Is the Mother of All Human Progress
Source: Advancing Rational Faith Academy By Ehsan Butt PhD General Human Consensus That Nature Is Bound To Rules Before the modern era no nation or fair-minded individual denied the idea […]
Toronto native Superwomen Lilly Singh moves to LA
thestar.com By: Bruce DeMara Entertainment, Published on Tue Feb 23 2016 It’s been an unexpected and eventful journey from the Scarborough home where Lilly Singh first became a YouTube star to the bright lights of Los Angeles. Last year, Lilly Singh was listed No. 8 on Forbes list of YouTube millionaires […]
Ted Talk: Dalia Mogahed: What do you think when you look at me?
When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this […]
India: About 60 Deobandi and Sunni Muslim scholars to Meet in Hyderabad, India, To ‘Save’ Youth From ISIS Influence
About 60 Deobandi and Sunni Muslim scholars to Meet in Hyderabad, India, To ‘Save’ Youth From ISIS Influence Feb 23, 2016 For the first time in India, about 60 Muslim scholars, mostly from the Deobandi and Sunni faith from across the country, will be assembling in Hyderabad on Tuesday to […]
5 Muslim Contributions to Modern Society
Source: Huffington Post By Rua Wani; Writer, producer, MAX media lead Coauthored by Danyal Hameed. The inaugural Muslim Awards for Excellence (MAX) Gala, taking place in Toronto, Canada on March […]
Violence Against Women is Contradictory to Islamic Teachings
by Hina Latif – an adjunct professor of sociology. “Muslim men are allowed to rape non-Muslim women to ‘humiliate’ them.” Professor Saud Saleh, from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, […]
New Ahmadiyya Mosque Opened In Leicester by the Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says new Mosque will be a beacon of peace : The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 20 February 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Baitul Ikram Mosque […]
PM Trudeau’s statement on Islam
Islam is not incompatible with Western secular society There s much of criticism to Prime Minster Justin Trudeau’s recent statement about Islam. The video of this statement is given here […]
Ken Ham of Noah’s Ark, Key to Understand Trump’s Lure
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Donald Trump had a sweeping victory in Nevada, last night, despite his spat with the Pope, his […]
First foreign-funded imam thrown out of Austria
Source: The Local Imam Yakup Aynagoz, whose salary is paid by Turkey and who was until now an imam at the Ahi Evran mosque in St Veit an der Gölsen in Lower Austria, was ordered to leave the country within seven days after his visa was not extended. The controversial […]
These 3 German cities are in the world top 10 for expats
Source: The Local The survey by Mercer put together a list of the 230 world cities with the best standard of living and rated Munich (4), Düsseldorf (6) and Frankfurt (7) all worthy of a place in the top ten. With Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Nuremberg all also ranked in […]
Why does China have women-only mosques?
Source: BBC The Islamic world is wide and various, its points of view almost as numerous as its people. And Islam in China, with its long tradition of women-only mosques, provides a good illustration, says Michael Wood. In the middle of the plain of the Yellow River in Henan province […]