Source: The Nation By Usman Ahmad is a British freelance writer and photographer based in Pakistan. His portfolio can be seen on his website http://www.usman-ahmad.com. Follow him on Twitter If Pakistanis want equality […]
Source: RT.com The Greek parliament has unanimously voted to recognize Palestine as an independent state. It comes amid an official visit to Greece by the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The […]
Source: Global News Premier Brad Wall gathered with members of Saskatoon’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community Monday in a meeting that covered several topics. The premier requested the gathering during the nationwide […]
So much of the recent debate in the US over Syrian refugees and Islamophobia has tended to assume that Muslim Americans are mostly migrants and that Islam is a new […]
Source: The Daily Siasat I never knew chemistry could be a source of happiness, excitement and create positively critical citizens until I heard it from Collin College Professor Dr. Amina […]
Reuters International swissinfo.ch DEC 22, 2015 – By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said […]
Reuters International DEC 22, 2015 – SWISSINFO.CH By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition’s military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a “disproportionate amount” of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking […]
Source: BBC An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools […]
Source: BBC Iraqi government forces are advancing into the centre of the city of Ramadi, which is controlled by jihadist group Islamic State (IS), officials say. Security sources told the […]
Could ‘resurrection plants’ be the future of food? Source: BBC When she was a child, Jill Farrant, a molecular physiologist based at the University of Cape Town, came across an […]
Source: Yahoo News Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006. But since […]
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
Source: CNN (CNN) We can blame the Internet for plenty: the proliferation of porn, our obsession with cat videos, the alleged rise of teen trends like – brace yourself – […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: We all pray to and believe in God the Father in the Christian tradition and so did Jesus. Source: CNN (CNN) – Pope Francis surprised […]
Source: BBC Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been released from detention after receiving a suspended jail sentence. Mr Pu was found guilty by a Beijing court earlier […]
Source: Tribune Mumtaz Qadri appealed to the courts recently to spare his life after he was sentenced to death for taking the life of Punjab governor, Salmaan Taseer in 2011. […]
Source: The Globe and Mail For writer Raihan Abir and his pregnant wife, Samia Hossain, the morning commute by motorcycle meant weaving through the clogged roads and crawling traffic of […]
theguardian: by Joe Williams, Tshepo Mokoena, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Homa Khaleeli and Nosheen Iqbal Chi Onwurah Chi Onwurah. Photograph: James Drew Turner The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central joined the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory: she had nominated him for the Labour leadership, but you wouldn’t call her […]
Epigraph: “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters, and we must act as such.” Pope Francis Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
Salon: Has World War III begun? Some world leaders and journalists seem to think so. For example, Jordan’s King Abdullah recently said at a news conference that “we are facing a Third World War against humanity,” and that we must “act fast to tackle the response to interconnected threats.” Similarly, […]