How MLK Day Became a Holiday
Source: Time Legislation designating the national holiday was passed in 1983 Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no long-standing tradition. The holiday is a little more than three decades […]
Video: Who is the Most Influential Person of All Times?
Muhammad (pbuh) – Most Influential of All Times … London is shocked! The Review of Religions team traveled around London asking the general public who they thought was the most […]
Vancouver mosques opened its doors to dispel the myths about Islam
Source: Globe and Mail While Vancouver police continue to investigate a possible hate crime, the Muslim Association of Canada opened its doors again to dispel the myths about Islam. The […]
Muslim women’s art exhibit celebrates diversity
Source: CBC We’re more alike than we are different — that’s the message behind a new art exhibit in Surrey which features the work of nine female Ismaili Muslim artists. […]
The diverse origins of Britain’s Muslims
Source: BBC The government estimates there are 190,000 Muslim women in England who speak little or no English. Ministers are determined to tackle some of what they see as the […]
Muslim women’s segregation in UK communities must end – Cameron
Source: BBC A £20m fund to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English will tackle segregation and help them resist the lure of extremism, David Cameron says. While […]
5 radical Islamists jailed in Bangladesh over 2005 blasts
Source: Fox News NEW DELHI – A court in Bangladesh has sentenced five alleged radical Islamists to 10 years in jail after finding them guilty of carrying out a series of explosions in 2005 to demand Shariah law in the Muslim-majority nation. Police Inspector Mominul Islam said the court sentenced […]
Why do you get eye floaters?
Source: BBC You might not know their official name, but you’ve no doubt seen eye floaters. The perception of these floating apparitions, sometimes also called vitreous floaters or Muscae volitantes(Latin […]
Religious freedom and America
Source: The Economist THIS weekend, some Americans, at least, have been pondering the meaning of religious liberty. January 16th has been designated Religious Freedom Day because it is the anniversary […]
Iran condemns new US sanctions over missile test
Source: BBC Iran has denounced new sanctions imposed by the US over its ballistic missile programme. The sanctions had “no legal or moral legitimacy”, a foreign ministry spokesman said. In […]
Cancer treatment for MS patients gives ‘remarkable’ results
Source: BBC UK doctors in Sheffield say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing “remarkable” improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer. About 20 patients have received bone […]
Oxfam says wealth of richest 1% equal to other 99%
Source: BBC The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October for the […]
More Chinese parents sending children to boarding schools in the US
Source: China Daily This holiday season was a little hectic for me as I was hosting three family friends from China. Entrepreneurs, scholars and physicians, no matter what the parents do for a living, they share something in common: They’ve sent their teenagers to boarding schools in the US. It […]
College established to fight terrorism
Source: China Daily China’s first educational institute of its kind focusing on counterterrorism law has been created at a university in Northwest China, which aims to build a pool of legal experts to help China combat terrorism.The institute was set up by the Northwest University of Political Science and Law […]
Parade, numerous celebrations to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Source: Los Angeles Times By Cindy Carcamo; Contact Reporter A replica of the Montgomery, Ala., bus that Rosa Parks was riding in when she was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give […]
Reason and religion need not always be in violent opposition
Guardian: Contrary to Nick Cohen’s assertion that “civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment”, the initial spin-off of the latter was the horror of the French Revolution. A more positive development of the time was England’s free press, praised by Voltaire. In fact, Christianity has a […]
Mullahs: Our ‘United Global Muslim Alliance’ defeated by Ahmadiyya.
http://kashifmd.com: Mullahs (clergy) from all sects have been opposing the Ahmadi Muslims since the inception of the community by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) in 1889. Many leading clerics of United India called for a complete boycott of Ahmadis and incited attacks on them. They boasted that Ahmadiyyat would die in a […]
Was Jinnah confused?
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani As a Congressman, Jinnah viewed with suspicion the creation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and was trenchantly opposed to the […]
Muslims ‘impossible to integrate’ in Europe, says Czech leader
Source: Dawn.Com PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant comments, said on Sunday that it was almost impossible to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is […]
Israel licks wounds as Iran sanctions end, looks to future US aid
By Reuters – Jan 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel bristled on Sunday at the lifting of international sanctions on Iran and vowed to flag up any violations of its archfoe’s nuclear restrictions while drawing on US defence aid to prepare for a possible military face-off in […]