Introduction to Islam
Source: Labradorian The Big Land has left a big impression on Fazal Malik and Abdul Qureshi. As members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — Malik, based out of Charlottetown, PE, […]
Planned Parenthood Shooting Appears To Have Been Politically Motivated
Source: Huffington Post After he killed 3 people and was arrested, Robert Lewis Dear said, “no more baby parts.” COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man who police say staged […]
Another Christian Terrorist Denied True Labeling
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Did you hear about the man who entered New Orleans’ airport with explosives and a […]
Indian Mulla ‘Women only fit to deliver children’ and a list of female Nobel Prize Laureates
Gender equality against Islam, says Kerala Sunni leader Source: Indian Express A prominent Indian Muslim leader said on Saturday that women could never equal men as “they are only fit to […]
Lessons From The Ancient Chinese Text You Never Knew You Needed
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — What is “the Tao,” exactly? The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text that puts forth a set of practices and guidelines for […]
Geneva Mosque rebuffs French imam charges
Addressing suspicion Geneva Mosque rebuffs French imam charges Nov 19, 2015 – 18:04 The Geneva Mosque is Switzerland’s largest (Keystone) Management at the Geneva Mosque has defended two imams accused of featuring on a French police list of individuals who represent a threat. A local newspaper that made the […]
660. Commandment – Division of inheritance
660. Commandment – Division of inheritance [4:12] Allah commands you concerning your children: a male shall have as much as the share of two females; but if there be females only, numbering more than two, then they shall have two-thirds of what the deceased leaves; and if there be one, she shall have the […]
Sobriety can save the day
Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The shooting of a Russian warplane by Turkey galvanised public opinion attention in our region. Some financial analysts compared it to the events, 100 years ago, of the summer of 1914, when Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the city […]
Storm in a herbal cup: Indonesian elixirs get a modern twist
By AFP – Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Photo courtesy of culinaryblossom.com JAKARTA — The trendy café looks like a typical coffee shop in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, but in fact it sells herb-infused brews promising to fix every ailment from coughs to impotence. Indonesians have for generations taken herbal […]
Putin orders sanctions against Turkey
By AP – Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while listening to a question during a meeting with representatives of ‘Popular Front’ broad movement at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on Friday (AP photo) ANKARA — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for […]
JORDAN:Refugee crisis a grave issue of national resilience — Fakhoury
By JT – Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury attends the 31st session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul last week (Photo courtesy of Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation ) […]
Isis: Britain ‘helping create territory for militant group in Yemen as they take advantage of Saudi-led war’
The Independent: Any military success in Syria will unravel because of new territory Britain is helping to create for Isis who have taken advantage of the instability and wide-spread civilian destruction caused by months of a Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen, according to senior Foreign Office lawyers and former diplomats. In […]
In Pakistan, the conflation of religion and politics threatens the freedom of the press
by Razi Rumi On the run Calling for secular reform in Pakistan’s politics earned me the enmity of the political Islamists, who tried to kill me it was a November night in Islamabad, not too different from thatevening when the assassins came for me. The two nights are inseparable in […]
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE
Newsweek: PAKISTAN’S AHMADIS FACE PERSECUTION, THREATS FROM LOCAL MOBS AND THE STATE. “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family […]
Manufacturing intolerance
The NEWS: Five days after the torching down of the chipboard factory and looting of workers’ houses and offices, about four kilometres from Jhelum on G.T. Road, by a violent mob, the smoke was still billowing from its warehouse and fire-fighting vehicles were still at work. On November 20, some […]
Japan’s newest and largest mosque opens its doors
Aljazeera: Nagoya, Japan – The largest mosque in Japan opened its doors on November 20 near the central Japanese city of Nagoya, heralding a new chapter in the East Asian nation’s relationship with Islam. Islam has never made more than a marginal impact on Japan, although the history of Japanese relations […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Celebrated 547th birthday of Baba Guru Nanak Dev at their Baitur Rahman Mosque
Source: thelinkpaper.ca | By Balwant Sanghera DELTA – This month, Sikhs around the globe are celebrating the birth (Parkash Divas) of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikh faith. Not only that, a […]
Al Jazeera – Japan’s newest and largest mosque opens its doors
Source: en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com Nagoya, Japan – The largest mosque in Japan opened its doors on November 20 near the central Japanese city of Nagoya, heralding a new chapter in the East Asian nation’s relationship with Islam. Islam has never made more than a marginal impact on Japan, although the history of Japanese relations […]
Pakistan: UET Lahore’s secret policy prohibits hiring of Ahmadis | Rabwah Times
Source: rabwah.net An American University Professor has exposed a Pakistani University’s secret hiring policy that prohibits hiring of Ahmadiyya Muslims. The professor is a member of an external committee that reviews applications of faculty […]
Pakistan’s witch-hunt against Ahmadiyya Muslims | Rabwah Times
Source: rabwah.net *Names have been changed where indicated to protect the identity of interviewees. November, 27, 2015 — It was pitch dark at 2:30am in the morning. The only sounds that Imran* could hear were coming from the factory that was set ablaze a kilometer away, and the slogans against Imran […]