kashifmd.com: The 25th of December is an important day for Pakistan. It was this day, that our founder – the Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah – was born. Officially dubbed Jinnah’s day, many celebrate this day by remembering Jinnah’s enduring struggle for the freedom and equal rights for the minority Muslim community within United India. Jinnah’s selfless […]
Huff Post: It has been a difficult year around the world with wars, conflicts and disease afflicting far too many people. Religion has too often played an unhelpful or even harmful role. However, throughout the year there have been stories of people of all different religions standing up for what […]
Time: Sohaib N. Sultan — The attitude has led to a quietism in the face of intolerable crimes as political Islam is left to extremists Last Tuesday morning we awoke to the horrific news that Taliban gunmen mercilessly attacked and killed more than 140 people, mostly children and their […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman, Founding Director, Sinai and Synapses During my seven years in the congregational rabbinate, I had so many people say to me, “I don’t believe […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor As of 7th of June, 2013, the Muslim Times has been banned in parts of Pakistan. When the readers try to log in, […]
Saudi Arabia Appoints Woman to Position in Two Holiest Mosques The head of the General Presidency of the Two Mosques, appointed Fatimah Al-Rashoud as head of the Women Guidance Committee. Wed, December 24, 2014 The Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the two holy mosques. (Photo: © Wikipedia) […]
Source: Bushra Mahmood of Germany Note by Editor: Video is in Urdu and after 15 minutes Moulvi talks against Ahmadiyya. Watch in Youtube
Part 1 – Hijab in Christian Denominations By Aisha Stacey- The literal meaning of hijab is to veil, to cover or to screen. It encompasses more than just a dress […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler housing units in two areas of annexed East Jerusalem, a local official said. “The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa,” Yosef Pepe Alalu, […]
The Washington Post: by Abby Phillip — Anna Stoehr, 114, uses her iPad at her retirement home in Plainview, Minn. Stoehr made headlines for needing to lie about her age to set up an account on Facebook. Anna Stoehr was 113 years young when she decided it was time for […]
Source. ET The MQM chief argued that if a non-democratic way has to be adopted in the country, it is better that martial law is imposed. More:
The New York Times — Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar last week, Pakistan persists in its duplicitous and self-defeating response to the extremism that is threatening the country. Immediately after the attack, Prime […]
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will go on to become egg and sperm – using human […]
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online Our brains are adapting to touchscreen smartphone technology say researchers who have carried out a study on human volunteers. The scientists […]
Source: Graphic On Line: LINK “Irrespective of their political and religious affiliations, the rich and well-to-do will be contributing to peaceful co-existence if they support the poor and weak in society,’’ the Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Alhaji Mohammed Bin Salih, said this […]
Source: Arab News It is highly unfortunate that so many feel at ease to kill innocent and defenseless civilians all in the name of revenge and of a great religion that should not have to suffer such indignities in its name. It is long overdue for all of us fair-minded […]
Source: Arab News Several Saudi writers and intellectuals have called on the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance to monitor its summer camps held to propagate religious teachings, to root out extremists advocating subversive ideologies. They say the dawa camps are organized under the banner of the ministry […]
Epigraph: And thou (Muhammad) shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — ISIS militants claim to have captured a Jordanian pilot after shooting down a coalition warplane over Syria on Wednesday, according to a statement posted on an ISIS-affiliated Twitter account. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had reported earlier Wednesday that ISIS had shot down an […]