Confessions of A Muslim American Teenager, Post-9/11
Source: Huffington Post By Sumaia Masoom; Editor-in-Chief, ReadCONTRA Magazine I don’t remember where I was during the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001. I was 4, and I did not lose […]
Bridging the Divides: Muslims in Europe
By Raza Rumi; Writer, journalist and international development practitioner. C.Editor at The Friday Times, Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy, Washington D.C. Huff Post: Islam is ‘incompatible’ with Western civilization is […]
Saudi Arabia offers Germany 200 mosques – one for every 100 refugees who arrived last weekend
independent.co.uk: Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany. Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and […]
Palestinian request to fly flag at UN passes General Assembly vote by landslide majority
Source: Jerusalem Post UNITED NATIONS – The Palestinian flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian resolution, infuriating Israel with a move that […]
Trying to Set Pakistan on a Secular Course; Away from Being a Theocracy
Epigraph: I asked the Messenger of Allah: “Who is the most excellent among the Muslims?” He said, “One from whose tongue and hands the other Muslims are secure.” [Al-Bukhari] Addressing […]
India: Daesh female recruiter arrested at Hyderabad airport
ISIS lady recruiter: What was the extent of indoctrination? Posted by: Vicky Nanjappa Updated: Saturday, September 12, 2015, 8:22 [IST] Mail Investigations that are being conducted following the arrest of a lady alleged to be an ISIS recruiter will look to unravel a major recruitment drive for the terrorist outfit. […]
Addressing Constitutional Takfir in Pakistan
Epigraph: I asked the Messenger of Allah: “Who is the most excellent among the Muslims?” He said, “One from whose tongue and hands the other Muslims are secure.” [Al-Bukhari] Source: […]
Teachers at Islamic school jailed for 12 months for beating 10-year-old pupil
Source: The Independent Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for “brutally” beating a young boy with a stick. The 10-year-old victim was […]
The German designer behind the Queen’s dress
Source: The Local The new portrait released to mark the day is appropriately British, featuring the Queen sitting at her desk in Buckingham Palace, opening one of her official red boxes, looking off to the side while Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney snaps the photo. But aside from Her […]
The Ugly Nationalist Politics of Human Origins
Source: The Daily Beast By Candida Moss The world was abuzz this week over a new human ancestor species found in South Africa. It is just the latest in a race […]
The women taking on Isis: on the ground with Iraq’s female fighters
theguardian: by Sarah Moroz — After their families were disappeared, tortured and murdered by Islamic State militants last year, young Yazidi women have armed themselves. Photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh joins them A survivalist coalition … Yazidi fighters at their lookout point in Sinjar, Iraq, only two kilometres from the Isis […]
Influential Pro-Israel Group Suffers Stinging Political Defeat
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISSEPT. 10, 2015 WASHINGTON — Officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee knew the odds were against them in the fight to block President Obama’s nuclear […]
At least 65 Dead in Grand Mosque in Mecca from Falling Crane
At Least 65 Dead in Grand Mosque in Mecca from Falling Crane by Reuters RIYADH — At least 65 people were killed when a crane crashed in Mecca’s Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense authority said, in an accident that came just weeks before Islam’s annual hajj pilgrimage. […]
Canadian elections – web history catches candidates
Conservative candidate shares advice on drunk women, latent homosexuality and “being a man” courtesy: pressprogress.ca Looking for an MP who understands the characters of drunk women, can spot signs of latent homosexuality and knows what “being a man” is all about? The Conservative Party of Canada could have just the […]
Marriage and Annulment: When Will the Catholic Church Leave the Catholics Alone?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many in the contemporary world think of marriage and divorce as a personal matter between the husband […]
9/11 anniversary – nature pays beautiful tribute with a rainbow
9/11 anniversary: Nature pays beautiful tribute as rainbow appears at World Trade Centre Posted by: Jagriti Kumari Published: Friday, September 11, 2015, 14:32 [IST] Mail New York, Sept 11: A beautiful rainbow appeared at the iconic World Trade Centre shattered by the terrorists on September 11, 2001. The rainbow appeared […]
September 11: Our Response 14 Years Later
Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like among kindreds; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
The Myth of Muslim Unity
It happened 41 years ago today, September 7, 1974: Muslim unity. And then it disappeared. And despite the sectarian violence, fatwas of infidelity, and state sanctioned terrorism, the myth of Muslim unity pervades the Muslim “Ummah.” I call it a myth because in every spectrum where it truly matters, Muslim […]
Vicious attack at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Association centre in Langwarrin
heraldsun.com.au: A VICIOUS attack has rocked members of a Langwarrin Muslim community centre. Police are appealing for witnesses after a man entered the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Association centre on September […]
INDIAN MUSLIM LEADER WARNS OF UNREST OVER ‘FAKE’ QURANIC TEXT
Source: Newsweek Pakistan AS PART OF COW PROTECTION PUSH, GUJARAT GOVERNMENT HAS ERECTED BILLBOARDS CLAIMING TO SHOW THE QURAN DISCOURAGES CONSUMPTION OF BEEF. By Punit Paranjpe—AFP A Muslim leader in India warned Wednesday of communal unrest after a state government claimed the Quran discourages eating beef, the latest contentious effort to […]