Source: The Guardian By Jason Wilson On the topic of Parisian massacres, consider this. On 24 August 1572, Charles IX of France ordered the assassination of prominent Huguenot Protestants […]
Source: The Guardian BY Masuma Rahim I have despaired at much of what I have seen and heard over the past 15 years. There was a time when people asked […]
Source: BBC Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth’s crust for the first time. They […]
Source: BBC India’s government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple. Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not […]
Source: BBC The lightning rise of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since 2014, has sent shockwaves around the Middle […]
Source: BBC The German cabinet has backed plans for military support in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200-strong […]
Source: BBC Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS). “If you […]
Mumbai, Dec 1: After a long debate and controversy, Aamir Khan finally received support from the King Khan of Bollywood — Shahrukh Khan (SRK). The superstar of Hindi cinema finally broke his silence on the controversy related to Aamir Khan and his statement on growing intolerance in the country. Shahrukh, […]
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 1 December 2015 Israeli commentators, Yaron Friedman, of “Ynet News” and Haviv Rettig Gur, of the “Times of Israel” are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilization and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to […]
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby The roots of our nation’s current descent into madness can be traced back to a series of unresolved catastrophic traumas Americans experienced during the Bush administration. In the short span of eight years, we suffered a collective loss of confidence in American […]
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It is encouraging to see that Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped short of taking military action against Ankara, which could have escalated into a much larger confrontation, a fear expressed by many these past days. To be sure, the punitive measures Moscow is […]
By JT – Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah delivers an address at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday, attended by several world leaders (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday said the war of “our […]
Source: Huffington Post In a recent statement to CNN Arabic, Morocco’s minister of tourism Lahcen Haddad affirmed that he opposes the decriminalization of extramarital relations and that he is open […]
Source: yourhoustonnews.com | By Petrina J. Johnson The recent terrorist attacks in Paris are bringing people from different religions together for united prayer. During a Thanksgiving Interfaith Service on Thursday, Nov. 19, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Houston, victims of the attacks were remembered. The annual Thanksgiving meeting and dinner was sponsored […]
Source: uscirf.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous attack on an Ahmadi […]
Businessinsider.com: A year after his 700-page opus“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” stormed to the top of America’s best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circles. The new […]
Source: Islam for the West By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times An honest study of the causes of the Dark Ages and European renaissance will lead […]
wearing full-body garment in public Photo: Switzerland bans the burqua, imposes £6,500 fine on Muslim women wearing full-body garment in public Pregnant Muslim woman branded ‘terrorist’ on London bus while passengers looked on 27 November 2015 Women in many parts of the Middle East are prohibited from being seen […]
Faiths come together to say Peace for All. Crossing boundaries of ethnicity, race and religion, Faith is building bridges in Montreal, Quebec On November 29, 2015 Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association […]
No parliament has the right, no matter how sovereign, to determine the faith of an individual citizen. This is not the job of a parliament. It is God’s job Yasser […]