Source: Religion News Service By Bruce B. Lawrence | May 6, 2015 | 35 Comments (RNS) Can poetry be an antidote to poison? Can it provide an alternative to the jihad of Pamela Geller? A life without His love is nothing but slow death. The sum total of love is but three […]
Epigraph: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Brandenburg-Gate in Berlin, Germany The Muslim Times has the most extensive collection of articles to […]
By Ishaan Tharoor May 7 at 5:00 AM THE WASHINGTON POST The official American institution memorializing the Holocaust sounded the alarm this week of the threat of a new genocide facing the beleaguered Rohingya of Burma, one of the world’s most neglected communities. A report published by the Simon-Skjodt […]
Texas Gunmen Honored as Martyrs in Pakistan Nadir Soofi and Elton Simpson were honored for their ‘martyrdom’ after they were killed attacking a ‘Draw Mohammed’ event in Garland, Texas. Nasir Soofie was Mr. Elvis & ladies man while studying in Islamabad Thu, May 7, 2015 Students at the Ghausia Madrassa […]
Vatican City The Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper blasted a series of cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad as “blasphemous” but also condemned the “mad and bloodthirsty” extremists who opened fire at a […]
Vatican City The Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper blasted a series of cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad as “blasphemous” but also condemned the “mad and bloodthirsty” extremists who opened fire at a […]
Source; New York Times By The Editorial Board There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the […]
British Home Secretary Visits Baitul Futuh Mosque In Latest News, Press Releases, May 6, 2015 Home Secretary Rt Hon Theresa May made her first ever visit to the landmark Baitul Futuh Mosque in south London on Saturday 2nd May and paid tribute to the work of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK […]
CBC: The federal government’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons. The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third reading by […]
Washington (CNN) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency’s controversial collection of Americans’ phone records, first revealed by Edward Snowden, is not legal under the Patriot […]
India: UP Girls Take a Stand, Say ‘No’ To Unfit Grooms and Mismatched Marriages 04 May, 2015 Minutes before solemnizing her wedding vows, Kanpur’s Lavli Kushwaha discovered to her horror that the man she was about to exchange garlands with was not the one she had agreed to marry – […]
India: UP Girls Take a Stand, Say ‘No’ To Unfit Grooms and Mismatched Marriages 04 May, 2015 Minutes before solemnizing her wedding vows, Kanpur’s Lavli Kushwaha discovered to her horror that the man she was about to exchange garlands with was not the one she had agreed to marry – […]
Commandment – Start every task with the name of Allah [27:30] The Queen said, “Ye chiefs, there has been delivered to me a noble letter. [27:31] “It is from Solomon, and it is: ‘In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful; [27:32] ‘Behave not proudly towards me, but come to me in […]
HuffPost Germany | By Susanne Klaiber Posted: 05/06/2015 The speech is touching, in a way. Sometimes, it’s even astonishing. But in the end, it’s not as revealing as we might […]
The Electronic Intifada 6 May 2015 150414-yarmouk-boys.jpg Children walk inside a school in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus on 14 April. (Moayad Zaghmout / Reuters) Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during the month of April. The first Palestinian child to be killed by […]
By Nicola Abé, Christiane Hoffmann, Horand Knaup, René Pfister and Christoph Schult AFP Relations between Germany and Israel are at a crossroads. Is it possible for the German government to continue to steadfastly support the country even as Jerusalem continues to refuse to allow the Palestinians to establish their own […]
By Nicola Abé, Christiane Hoffmann, Horand Knaup, René Pfister and Christoph Schult AFP Relations between Germany and Israel are at a crossroads. Is it possible for the German government to continue to steadfastly support the country even as Jerusalem continues to refuse to allow the Palestinians to establish their own […]
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere speaks during a press conference to present politically-motivated crime rate in Germany on Wednesday in Berlin. German police arrested four people Wednesday accused of belonging to a far-right “terror” organization that acquired explosives for attacks on Muslims and refugee homes. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon It is tempting but difficult to identify a single dynamic at the level of state and society that explains the many different conflicts across the Arab world. Shiite-Sunni and Iranian-Saudi confrontations? These are all elements of the many complex political, social […]
REFUGEE CRISIS Increase in illegal immigrants crossing Italian border By swissinfo.ch and agencies MAY 6, 2015 – 21:45 Last week 240 people tried to cross the Italian border into Switzerland illegally, with 120 migrants reaching Switzerland over the weekend alone. Ten additional guards have been sent to the Ticino border. […]