Women In India Are Now Legally Allowed To Be Head Of Their Households
Source: Huffington Post India is slowly giving women the recognition they deserve. The Delhi high court ruled that the eldest female member of a family can now act as the […]
Google Looks to Divert Extremists With Anti-Radicalization Ads
Source: Time A pilot initiative is aimed at stopping people coming under the influence of extremist groups online Google is experimenting with a program that would direct British users searching for words linked to religious extremism to content designed to counter radicalization, a company executive has said. Anthony House, Google’s […]
Does Nigeria Have What It Takes to Defeat Boko Haram?
Source: Time The Islamist terror group massacres dozens in the northeast as the country is frozen by corruption and economic malaise Organized assaults from multiple directions. Check. An arsenal of […]
Dear Trump Supporters: Hear Me Out Before You Vote. Yours, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Source: NDTV By Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, is a former cultural ambassador for the United States and the author of several bestselling books. His latest novel is “Mycroft […]
Hardtalk – What is Islamism? – Maajid Nawaz, Quilliam
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Hundreds protest against Islamophobic movement
ANTI-PEGIDA DEMO By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 3, 2016 – 21:36 Police and anti-fascist demonstrators outside Basel’s cantonal parliament (Keystone) Some 350 people gathered without permission in front of Basel cantonal parliament on Wednesday to protest against Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA movement. A sizeable and heavily armed police presence monitored the […]
Friendship redefined by Saudi with a golden heart
ARAB NEWS Published — Thursday 4 February 2016 AL-JOUF: Want to know the real meaning of friendship? Meet Salman bin Musleh Al-Sharari, a Saudi, who didn’t hesitate to sell his prized possession to send home his injured Turkish friend Mohammad Ali Arsalan. Al-Sharari became friends with Arsalan during his visits […]
Syrian army and allies break rebel siege of Shiite towns — army
By Reuters – Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises after air strikes by pro-Syrian government forces in Anadan city, about 10 kilometres away from the towns of Nubul and Zahraa, Northern Aleppo countryside, Syria, Wednesday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — The Syrian army and its allies have broken a three-year […]
King (of Jordan) urges int’l community to invest in peace, hope
By JT – Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has urged the world to invest in peace by giving refugees a future and assist host communities through a feasible approach that focuses on development and long-term planning. In an op-ed in The Independent published […]
To help solve the complex problems facing Syria
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – PHILIP HAMMOND Today, the UK will co-host the conference “Supporting Syria and the region 2016”, with Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the United Nations. It will take an ambitious new approach to provide longer-term support for refugees through concrete action on livelihoods and jobs, and […]
Timely counsel
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL HH Prince Zeid, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, has just issued a warning to all parties involved in the peace talks on the Syrian conflict, to not even think of granting amnesty to any person implicated in the commission of […]
Vivid End-Of-Life Dreams May Help Comfort People Facing Death
Emotionally charged dreams that lessen the fear of death are surprisingly common. 10/26/2015 Carolyn GregoireSenior Health & Science Writer, The Huffington Post THOMAS BARWICK/GETTY IMAGES Barry, an 88-year-old patient in a hospice in upstate New York, had an extremely vivid dream one night in which he was driving somewhere unknown. […]
Why give to charity? What Muslims and Catholics have in common.
Source: Washington Post Organized religions have traditionally played a major role in charitable works — Christian and Muslim organizations have long established schools, hospitals and social service organizations. Catholic Charities […]
Video: Obama condemns anti-Muslim rhetoric in first US mosque visit
Source: BBC Barack Obama has condemned what he called “inexcusable political rhetoric” about Islam, an apparent reference to recent remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In his first visit […]
Mini black holes from LHC are not going to bring about the collapse of the universe
By Hannah Osborne August 5, 2015 15:30 BST IBTimes.co.uk Stephen Hawking has said that mini black holes could potentially provide enough energy to supply the world’s electricity demands – but could also destroy the planet. He made these comments as part of the BBC’s Reith lectures. The special series on black holes […]
12 Famous Scientists On The Possibility Of God
The Muslim Times has the most extensive and the best collection on the theme of Religion & Science Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla, Religion Associate Editor When President Barack […]
Obama Visits Mosque In U.S. For First Time During His Presidency
Source: NPR President Obama is delivering remarks at a mosque in Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, in the first visit to an American mosque he’s made during his presidency. His visit, […]
Indian Muslim Women Seek Supreme Court for Entry in All Mosques
Women at SC door for mosque gate-pass Source: Telegraph India New Delhi, Jan. 30: A group of Muslim women has decided to move the Supreme Court demanding entry into all […]
Seminar: Missionary Islam and Humanitarian Engagement: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Movement
ascleiden.nl: The religious movement of the Ahmadiyya was founded by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian Muslim scholar (1835-1908). It reached West Africa in the 1920s, but its importance in the West African public space only grew in the 1990s. Its followers combine the will for the restoration of true […]
Latino Muslims are part of US religious landscape
Al Jazeera: On January 30, Latino Muslim leaders from around the United States gathered in Houston, Texas, for the opening of IslamInSpanish, a spacious, state-of-the-art community centre. As children bounced around […]