Weird weather brings warm welcome to 2016
By AFP – Jan 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A producer from the Perigord region checks her ripe strawberries, due to the unusual warm temperatures, on December 29, in Cendrieux, southwestern […]
Shiite cleric’s execution in S. Arabia exposes Mideast divisions
By AP – Jan 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – TEHRAN, Iran — The execution of a Shiite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has laid bare the divisions now gripping the Middle East, as protesters set fire Sunday to the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran and demonstrators took to the streets […]
Reconising the symptoms
Jan 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The 31-year-old Arab Israeli suspected of having killed two people and injured eight others outside a pub in Tel Aviv on Friday might be yet another Palestinian fed up with the treatment of his people by Israelis. If that is the case, his act […]
Step towards a political solution in Syria
Jan 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that outlines a peace process for Syria, and puts aside the dispute over the fate of Bashar Assad. The resolution aims at destroying Daesh’s and other terrorist groups’ sources of income. There is […]
Sweden begins border ID controls to halt refugee influx
Sweden has begun ID controls as part of the government’s efforts to limit the number of refugees entering the country. Everyone entering Sweden from midnight on Sunday by bus, train or ferry from Denmark will be checked and those lacking valid ID documents will be turned back. Sweden, which until […]
The ‘road to righteousness’ at Qadian
Tribune India: You wouldn’t know where Qadian is unless you know what it stands for. For the record, the town’s streetlights are switched off because the Municipal Committee owes Rs 26 lakh to the power utility. It has irregular water supply for its over 40,000 residents. And its lone government […]
The Year 2016 and our Responsibilities by Khalifa Of Islam
Alislam.org: Today is the first day of the New Year and the year is starting with the blessed day of Friday. It is tradition to wish each other a Happy New Year, as such people are sending messages of good wishes to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih and they would be wishing […]
The blasphemy law, Islam and the state
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani The blasphemy law, as enacted in Pakistan in 1986, militates first and foremost against the Islamic principles of justice and here is why: if it is conceived as an Islamic law, is it subject to hadd? Five years ago today, Salmaan Taseer, the […]
Interfaith Marriages
Source: Muslim Sunrise, winter 2015 volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It was meant to be the happiest day of their lives […]
Science in the Service of the Scriptures
Source: Muslim Sunrise 2015 winter volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Are science and religion at odds with each other? Cary […]
Book Review: Can Religion and Science Coexist?
Source: The Atlantic Reviewed by JEFFREY TAYLER A new book by the evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne tackles arguments that the two institutions are compatible. In May 1988, a 13-year-old girl […]
Saudi Arabia Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Foreign Minister Says
Source: Huffington Post RIYADH, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a […]
Sweden’s Real Lessons: It’s Not Only All Welfare and Social Justice
By Munir Varraich, Sweden The year 2015 has come to a close with so many of the beastly memories buried in its bosom. Mankind is stepping into the New Year […]
Guest Column: Islam vs. ‘demonic cults’ The distinctions between orthodox Islam and its heretical offshoots
By Abdul Cader Asmal Posted Jan. 2, 2016 at 2:51 PM Sandwiched between demonic terrorists on the one side and malicious Islamophobes on the other, the overwhelming majority of decent American citizens who include their law-abiding Muslim counterparts are askance as to what to make of Islam and the […]
Muslims Spread Truth About Islam in Time’s Square on New Year’s Eve
by Selena Hill (staff@latinpost.com) In effort to combat misconceptions about Islam, a group of Muslim men hit the streets to spread a message of love and peace in the heart of New York City on New Year’s Eve. Salaam Bhatti, a 29-year-old estate planning attorney from Queens, NY, spent Thursday […]
No helmet no problem
Source: BBC In 2006, Lund University industrial design students Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin decided to invent a better helmet as a class project. The first obstacle to overcome was aesthetic; people (notably the two students) simply don’t like to wear helmets. But their research also found that traditional plastic […]
Islamic State video ‘shows killing of five men it says spied for UK’
Source: BBC Islamic State militants have released a video, featuring a man and young boy speaking with British accents, purportedly showing the killing of five men who it says were […]
Video: Richard Dawkins on Islam, Jews, science and the burka
Evan Davis speaks to Richard Dawkins. Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English[4][5] ethologist, evolutionary biologist,[6] and writer. He is anemeritus fellow of New College, Oxford,[7] […]
New Zealand Police Rescue Drowning Woman From Car (PHOTOS)
Source: Huffington Post By Simon McCormack Posted: 02/18/2015 10:07 am EST Two police officers pulled a woman from her sinking car a minute before, they say, she would have drowned. […]
Hawaii Sees Fewer Humpback Whales Returning for Winter
Source: Time But it might not be bad news for the whales Humpback whales are one of Hawaii’s many tourist draws, but this year experts say fewer of them than […]