Chinese Province Bans Islamic Veil, Sparking Rights Concerns
Source: Dawn BEIJING: The capital of China’s far western Xinjiang has banned the wearing of Islamic veils in public, the regional government said on Thursday, in a move experts worry […]
Jihadist violence ‘killed 5,000 in November’
A closer look at the BBC’s investigation on the global cost of jihadist violence More than 5,000 people worldwide died in November as a result of jihadist violence, a BBC […]
Pakistan’s Malala moment
Source: ET Malala Yousufzai on December 10 made history as she became the world’s youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize award. Aged only 17, the teenager from Swat collected the peace prize in Oslo alongside Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, who has worked tirelessly to rescue children […]
Swiss jihadist avoids prison sentence
A 30-year-old man from canton Vaud has been given a suspended sentence of 600 hours of community service for attempting to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria. This […]
UNICEF: ‘Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality’
The Washington Post: by Nick Kirkpatrick — Esther Tokpah, an 11-year-old orphan in Monrovia, Liberia, who lost both parents to Ebola. A new report released on Monday by UNICEF declares 2014 a “devastating” year for children. “Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony […]
Amnesty: Death of Palestinian Minister Highlights Excessive Force By Israeli Army
The death of a Palestinian minister during a protest against land confiscations in the West Bank may have resulted from arbitrary and abusive force by Israeli forces against demonstrators, said […]
It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are the bad guys too The Muslim world has been enraged about these crimes for years
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” […]
The Muslim father behind the Pakistani Nobel Prize winner
BY MANSURA BASHIR MINHASMANSURAB@YAHOO.COM This is the opening line of I am Malala, the compelling memoir that chronicles the struggles of Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 has become the youngest […]
Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
Kailash Satyarthi (L), Indian anti-child labour activist and head of the South Asian Coalition Against Child Servitude,and Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai (r). — File photo by Reuters The […]
UN official calls for prosecution after CIA revelations
.itv.com: A United Nations human rights expert has called for the prosecution of US officials who ordered acts of torture against detainees. Ben Emmerson, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights […]
Reza Aslan on What the New Atheists Get Wrong About Islam
http://nymag.com/: In the recent culture-war flare-ups over Islam, the side arguing that the religion is inherently dangerous and violent has tended to be overrepresented in the media, pulling together an unlikely coalition of right-wingers and otherwise-liberal pundits like Bill Maher, as well as New Atheists such as Sam Harris and […]
Urdu Videos: Blasphemy and then Apology by Junaid Jamshed?
Junaid Jamshed (Urdu: جنید جمشید), is a Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, and singer-songwriter. After graduating with a degree in engineering from the UET Lahore, Jamshed briefly worked as a civilian contractor […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (35) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazakallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Malala and Kailash Satyarthi receive joint Nobel award
BBC: Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards. The Nobel committee described both laureates as “champions of peace”. […]
OPEC cuts 2015 demand forecast for its oil to lowest in a decade
(Reuters) – Global demand for OPEC crude in 2015 is expected to fall to the lowest level in more than a decade and far below current output, the group said on Wednesday, pointing to a hefty supply surplus without OPEC output cuts or a slowdown in the U.S. shale boom. […]
Religious Leaders On Senate Torture Report: ‘Complete Moral Bankruptcy’
Religious leaders have been at the forefront of the fight to end torture, and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 500-page summary on the CIA’s treatment of terrorism suspects seems to have […]
Every Thing the Muslim Times Wants to Share After CIA Torture Report
Epigraph: Now, when you meet in war those who are bent on denying the truth, smite their necks until you overcome them fully, and then tighten their bonds; but thereafter […]
Second wife – A sister’s story
By: A Muslim Sister Source: MuslimVillage.com “Second wife! The words reverberated through my brain. Why? Am I not good enough? Never! I will never accept a second wife! If you […]
Russian billionaire pays $4.1M for James Watson’s Nobel Priz
Russian billionaire pays $4.1M for James Watson’s Nobel Prize, so he can return it to the seller — James Watson Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times | December 9, 2014 | Last Updated: Dec 9 10:37 PM ET More from The New York Times ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images/FileJames Watson with two colleagues […]
1,000 Years of Scientific Texts From The Islamic World Are Now Online
Loonwatch: A massive undertaking by the Qatar Digital Library that preserves a millennium of scientific work. (h/t: S. I.) By Mark Strauss Between the 9th and 19th centuries, Arabic-speaking scholars translated Greek, […]