By Omar Obeidat , Khetam Malkawi – Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour and several members of his Cabinet hold a press conference at the Royal Cultural Centre in Amman on Sunday (Photo by Sahem Rababah) AMMAN – Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Sunday said […]
City Desk The Daily Star The three-day 92nd annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Bangladesh ended peacefully at its National Headquarters in the capital’s Bakshibazar yesterday with a message of serving people irrespective of religion, race or creed. The concluding address was delivered by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the […]
(RNS) Republicans and Democrats divide sharply over views on Islam, Muslims and how a U.S. president should label violent extremists. But Americans overall agree there’s “a lot” of discrimination against Muslims living in the United States — and it’s rising — a new Pew Research survey finds. RELATED STORY: Obama pleads […]
Scientific American: Three murders, a suicide and a rash of political appointments at universities have thrown Indian academia into an uproar against the conservative (right-wing) government. Prominent artists, writers, historians and scientists are speaking out against an intensifying climate of religious intolerance and political interference in academic affairs. “What’s going on […]
Huff Post: by Nina Gulgowsky — “As far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men.” Archaeologists say they have discovered the cremated remains of 14 women, believed to have been of high status, buried beneath Stonehenge. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 14 women, believed to […]
Dawn: When my mother first announced that we would be going to the mosque for taraweeh, I was scandalised, to say the least. I must have been around 12 or 13 years old. It was Ramazan and there was a flurry of activity in the house right after iftaar. Her […]
It is a losing proposition for liberals to engage the clergy, especially given that there are no liberal scholars of Islam grounded in Islamic history and jurisprudence, at least in Pakistan, who can challenge the established sectarian narratives of Barelvis and Deobandis Justice A R Cornelius, being a liberal catholic […]
Source: Aljazeera The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is ready to send ground troops to Syria as part of an international coalition to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and […]
Source:BBC Every day, more data about our lives is being generated than ever before. When it comes to saving lives, the bigger the data the better – but what to […]
Source: BBC Witnessing any dolphin or whale stranding live is a deeply moving experience; particularly when you end up accompanying an individual to the end of its life. My stomach […]
Source: BBC Algerian MPs have passed a package of reforms that include reinstating a limit on presidential terms and giving the Berber language official status. The language can now appear […]
Source: AJC.com The disqualification of a high school runner because he wore a head band with a Bible verse has triggered legislation about religious expression on sports uniforms. The Georgia High School Association opposes House Bill 870, saying that if it becomes law, the organization would be compelled to break […]
Source: RT When failure to embrace what the scientific establishment currently believes in cases where it can produce no conclusive evidence results in a witch-hunt, the cause of true science […]
Source: Tribune By Shahid Javed Burki The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank The drama surrounding the American election has reached the political stage. There are still nine months left before the country’s citizens cast their votes to elect the successor […]
Source: Sowetan Live New age churches have become healing centres that sell water and oil with promises of curing people of ailments. This was the submission of the commission investigating […]
Source: RNS RESDEN, Germany – Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA movement staged rallies in several cities across Europe on Saturday to protest against the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, who faced termination from her tenured post at the evangelical school for publicly saying Christians and Muslims worship the “same God,” has announced […]
Source: Time The church said Germany can’t “take in all the world’s needy” The German Catholic church has asked for a reduction in the number of refugees entering the country […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran Forty Hadiths or Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad about Compassionate Living The […]
By CARLOTTA GALLFEB. 6, 2016 The funeral of Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul in January. Credit Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TUNIS — PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan […]