waqarahmedi.wordpress.com: What a roller coaster of a year 2015 was – especially if you teach about religion. The frenzied debate about free speech post-Charlie Hebdo, spate of ISIS terror attacks and, yes, Donald Trump, propelled classroom practitioners like me into relentless action. But these things and more also made us rethink […]
By Irfan Ullah Khan “She believed in me when the whole world refuted me and she attested to my trueness when the whole world accused me of falsehood. She offered me compassion and loyalty with her wealth when everyone else had forsaken me.” [Prophet Muhammad (saws): Narrated by Masnad Ahmad] […]
By CHRIS COONSTHE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER – updated Thursday, December 31, 2015 America is at war with the Islamic State, but we are failing to confront the cost of this war. Deployments of American special operations forces to Syria and Iraq in recent months have rightly revived calls for Congress […]
Bashir Khan December 31, 2015, 11:59 am The Youth Association of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community NZ, will gather its members from across Auckland, and continue its annual tradition of the New Year’s Day clean up. The location chosen for this year’s event, in liaison with City Parks Services, is the […]
By IANS | 1 Jan, 2016, NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims have little fascination for Islamic radical groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, say scholars and Muslim leaders agreeing with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s assertion that Indian Muslims were not attracted to their ideologies. The minister, while speaking at a conference at […]
Harry, who gave up job in the City to join Kurdish forces, says fears of prosecution won’t keep him off the frontline Harry, who uses the pseudonym Macer Gifford, returned to Syria in early December to fight against Isis. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Ben Quinn Friday 1 January […]
Source: BBC By Tharik Hussain Keturiasdesimt Totoriu, Lithuania It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the […]
Source: The Siasat Daily Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama who is also a Nobel Laureate termed the Holy Quran as a Sacred Book which is a priceless Gift of God […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Punjabi, Urdu: فیض احمد فیض , born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) MBE, NI, Lenin Peace […]
Jan 01,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh We in this part of the world welcome all efforts geared towards fighting and then eradicating terrorism, exercised by countries from the region and beyond. While terrorism is primarily ravaging several countries in our region, it is also directly affecting several other countries […]
Jan 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Keep your eyes on the oil-fuelled Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab states in the year ahead, because they are just starting to experience a genuinely novel, almost existential, challenge that will test the quality of their statehood and national integrity as […]
31 December 2015 From the sectionEurope SPIEGEL.DE Image copyrightEPAImage captionMrs Merkel’s pre-recorded speech is to be broadcast on Thursday evening German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to use her New Year’s speech to urge Germans to see the influx of refugees as an opportunity for the future. Warning against support […]
It has certainly been one of the most difficult decisions to elect the top 10 Muslim Women of 2015: with success not far from revolutionary, Muslim women have not failed to prove themselves successful. But I guess 2015 has been the biggest run around for Muslim women. From the depths […]
Françoise Frenkel’s book ‘Rien où poser sa tête’ has been rescued from obscurity. Robert Fisk celebrates an extraordinary writer, and her story which has a mystery at its heart. Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 29 December 2015 German-occupied Paris, 1942. The Jewish population were forced to wear the yellow […]
Religion News Service: Every election cycle an elaborate courtship ritual goes on between political candidates and clergy. Watch for it in 2016. Candidates seek out major clergy (and denominational officials, and activists, etc.) to…help validate their candidacies; (appear to) seek advice; appeal to certain constituencies; reach large in-person audiences; get pictures […]
By Ed Stetzer | December 30, 2015 | 14 Comments (RNS) Americans are overwhelmingly concerned about religious liberty — that’s good. What’s troubling, but perhaps not surprising, is that they […]
New Republic: An Appetite for Wonder: The Makings of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins (Ecco Press) If an autobiography can ever contain a true reflection of the author, it is nearly always found in a throwaway sentence. When the world’s most celebrated atheist writes of the discovery of evolution, Richard […]
Economist: ORHAN OSMANOGLU cradles a French handkerchief embossed with the letter H. “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he says. His family has fallen far since those illustrious days. Abdulhamid II lived in a palace, Yildiz, in the heart of Ottoman Istanbul; Orhan lives in […]
A 63-storey skyscraper in downtown Dubai that was engulfed by fire on Thursday has been evacuated and the blaze is 90 percent under control, authorities in the Gulf emirate said. Large tongues of flame shooting skywards enveloped the luxury hotel and residential block, which lies across a plaza from the […]
Prof Larycia Hawkins, was fired for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Kelly James Clark 29/12/2015 Suppose there is a God who a long, long time ago spoke to Abraham, promising to bless the world through his descendants. Suppose his descendants told their friends who told their […]