Getting Ready for Easter
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Allah but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:104) Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of […]
Dementia hits women hardest – study
theguardian: by Robin McKie — Research finds disease now leading cause of death in British women; many are also carers before succumbing themselves An MRI scan of a human brain. Women over 60 are now twice as likely to get dementia as breast cancer. Women are bearing the brunt of the […]
‘Skunk-like cannabis’ increases risk of psychosis, study suggests
Editor’s pick: Pregnancy, Alcohol and Islam Former skunk user Liaquat Zaman: “It brought me to a very dark place in my life” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Warning over ‘skunk’ cannabisListen Skunk dangers prompt health fearsWatch Cannabis and psychosis: Your stories Smoking potent cannabis was linked to […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 383. Commandment – Consort with them (wife’s) in kindness
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President Obama’s aversion to naming Islamic extremism as the focus of a summit this week has drawn anger & confusion
Washington (CNN)At this week’s summit on combating violent extremists, President Barack Obama hopes to concoct ways to battle a threat made newly relevant by attacks in Western Europe, Canada and Australia. But in planning and describing the event, starting Tuesday in Washington, the White House has consistently avoided naming Islamic […]
Tens of thousands of Muslims flee Christian militias in Central African Republic
BANGUI, Central African Republic – Tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as Christian militias stage brutal attacks, shattering the social fabric of this war-ravaged nation. In towns and villages as well as here in the capital, Christian vigilantes wielding machetes have killed […]
Muslim NGOs could help counter violent extremism
Washington Post: On Feb. 18, the White House plans to host a “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.” The Obama administration should use this summit to ask why, so many years after Sept. 11, 2001, policymakers have failed to effectively manage the growing global trend toward violent extremism. Theexisting strategies, overly […]
Breaking news: Muslims to protect Oslo synagogue
hopenothate.org.uk: A group of Norwegian Muslims will be forming a circle around Oslo synagogue after the celebration of Shabat this Saturday in a solidarity gesture called the Ring of Peace. […]
Indian prime minister claims genetic science existed in ancient times
Source: The Guardian Maseeh Rahman in Delhi, Tuesday 28 October 2014 Narendra Modi gives examples of Karna and Ganesha to support view that cosmetic surgery and reproductive genetics used thousands of […]
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest By Maximilian Popp spiegel.de REUTERS Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there […]
ANTI-EXTREMISM: Breaking the radicalisation cycle
ANTI-EXTREMISM Breaking the radicalisation cycle By Simon Bradley FEB 18, 2015 – 10:20 Global efforts to counter violent extremism continue to intensify with a high-level summit in Washington this week. Outside of international talks, are grassroots approaches the answer? A new Geneva-based agency thinks so. On Wednesday, civil society and […]
Divers find record trove of gold coins in Mediterranean
JERUSALEM: Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel’s Mediterranean coast — about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country’s antiquities […]
Russian researchers expose breakthrough US spying programme
SAN FRANCISCO — The US National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former […]
Ash Wednesday: 46 Days to Easter, Let us Study Resurrection
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity. It occurs 46 days (40 fasting days, if the 6 […]
Women Less Welcome Than Men in Fields Demanding Brilliance
Biosciencetechnology.com: by Cynthia Fox — Women are less welcome than men in fields—including philosophy, physics, math, and music composition—where brilliance is viewed as more important than effort, says a co-ed Princeton University/University of Illinois group in a recent Science. The team “noticed a pattern I had never heard of: that certain […]
Terrorism: Is Islam to Blame?
Epigraph: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32) Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Collection of […]
The Middle East is red with the blood of Christians
Source: NewAge Islam.com The beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by forces sympathetic to Islamic State over recent days is sadly not an isolated case. On the contrary, it is the latest of countless outrages perpetrated against Christians in or near the Church’s Biblical heartlands over many years. The […]
Militarised society
Source:Dawn But there is one particular path that can already be identified and on which the country has already set foot that will without a shadow of doubt lead to an even more violent future: that of further militarising the population. More:
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at On Gambia’s Independence Anniversary
Source: allafrica.com | Baba F. Trawally, Amir The Gambia, by the grace of Allah Almighty, will be celebrating her golden jubilee independence anniversary on Wednesday 18th February 2015. This will be fifty years since […]
Fear, Inc. 2.0: As Anti-Muslim Incidents Continue, Report Exposes Funders, Pundits of Islamophobia
http://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2015/2/16/fear_inc_20_as_anti_muslim Additional Reading Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps”