Source: Salon If the vague, yet oft-touted, religiosity of presidential wannabes remains a factor in elections these days, there may be a good historical explanation for why that is, beyond […]
Source: Independent It’s not only massive oil companies Shell and BP that have been forced to cut jobs because of low oil prices. Now even Isis fighters are feeling the […]
Source: Daily Mail Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of German Muslims, said that immediate changes need to be made to the asylum system to protect children and […]
Source: CNN Yunnan, China (CNN)If there’s a downside to visiting Yunnan, it’s that one trip simply isn’t going to be enough. China’s southwestern province is its most ethnically diverse. It’s […]
Source: BBC Ehud Olmert has begun a 19-month jail sentence, becoming the first former Israeli prime minister to go to prison. Olmert was handed a six-year sentence in 2014 after […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II’s close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been […]
Thousands of pamphlets and leaflets were distributed in many languages by the Ahmadiyya members from the three main wings of the community, MajlisAusarullah (Ahmadi elders), LajnaImaillah (Ahmadi ladies), and Khuddamul […]
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS UROZHAYNE, Crimea — Feb 15, 2016 Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken […]
Following the death of Lord Eric Avebury on Sunday the 14th of February 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February, meaning it […]
By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 12, 2016 – 10:52 Asylum seekers outside a welcome centre for migrants in canton Vaud on February 11 (Keystone) An initiative to deport criminal foreigners will not result in more asylum seekers being sent home – the current law already authorises their expulsion for serious […]
Plans to turn a vacant church in a Chicago suburb into a mosque have been the target of anonymous flyers. Ray Hanania | 12 Feb 2016 In a Chicago suburb, a Muslim society wants to turn a vacant church into a mosque [Ray Hania/Al Jazeera] Proposals to convert an abandoned […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Construction started on 1,800 units for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last year, 265 of them in wildcat outposts, settlements watchdog Peace Now said Sunday in its annual report. The overall number of starts was down […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish forces’ armoured vehicles patrol at the southeastern town of Nusaybin, Turkey, near the border with Syria, where Turkish security forces are battling militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), on Sunday, a day after Turkish media reports said a […]
Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL In his Friday speech to the 52nd Munich Security Conference, His Majesty King Abdullah outlined his views on the manner in which terrorism can be fought, which should be holistic and global. “Failed states, conflict zones and sectarian divisions are fertile grounds for terrorism,” […]
In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate Executive Summary of the Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities 25th-27th January 2016 WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle […]
01/19/2016 Kabir Helminski; Sufi shaikh and author A kind Rabbi, interested in building bridges between Islam and Judaism, recently wrote to me and suggested that I would be destroying my credibility by “trying to whitewash Islam.” I thanked him for taking the time to write and for offering his opinion. […]
February 11, 2016 – News Code : 734443 Source : Agencies A blind school teacher from India’s Jharkhand state surprised everyone by writing the Holy Qur’an in Braille language. A blind school teacher from India’s Jharkhand state surprised everyone by writing the Holy Qur’an in Braille language. While pursuing her […]
02/08/2016 John BartonProfessor (Pepperdine University), African development partner (Kibo Group), interfaith activist Recently, a teenage Muslim in Pakistan cut off his own hand because he believed it caused him to commit blasphemy. At the local mosque, the imam asked for a show of hands of those who do NOT love […]
02/12/2016 Michael A. MoodianWriter, educator, nonprofit leader, Southern California native Southern California has a thriving and eclectic fine arts scene, and the husband-wife team of painter Sandow Birk and ceramicist Elyse Pignolet are two of the region’s finest visual artists. Birk and Pignolet are notable for capturing the zeitgeist of […]