A global fight against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants will likely take years to fully succeed, but nations are prepared to engage “for as long as it takes” to defeat the bloody insurgency, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. Nearly a year after […]
IBN SINA ABU ‘ALI AL-HUSAYN (980-1037) Ibn Sina (Avicenna) is one of the foremost philosophers in the Medieval Hellenistic Islamic tradition that also includes al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd His philosophical […]
Turkish youths know about foreign scientists and pop stars but they are not informed when it comes to Muslim scholars and local musicians, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during an address at an education conference. Erdoğan said a main objective of the education system should be to instill self-confidence in […]
Epigraph: He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book; in it there are verses that are decisive in meaning — they are the basis of the Book — and there are others that are susceptible of different interpretations. But those in whose hearts is perversity pursue such […]
Source: CNN New York (CNN) — A black man dies after a confrontation with a white policeman. Crowds take to the streets incensed, decrying police brutality. And a grand jury is called to hear the case. The place is not Ferguson, and the case is not Michael Brown’s. It’s Staten […]
Source: CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — New elections will likely be held on March 17, the speaker of Israel’s parliament said Wednesday, a day after the Prime Minister sacked two senior members of his coalition Cabinet for criticizing government policy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also called for Parliament to be dissolved, […]
Spirit, Science and Metaphysics: by Steven Bankarz — We are becoming literal gods, and we are going to explore some of the hard peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support this claim. In 1000 years from now, we will look like petty cavemen in our current physical and mental state compared to […]
Source: CNN Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — A car packed with explosives sped into a United Nations convoy near Mogadishu airport Wednesday morning, claiming at least four lives in the ensuing explosion, police said. Three of the dead were civilians; one was a security force member, said Police Col. Mohamed Hassan. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If anyone was not conviced completely about the paramount need for Separation of Mosque-Church and State, […]
Huff Post: by Guilia Belardelli — Empathy, love, respect, equality: these are the common denominators which caused the leaders of the world’s major religions to sign a declaration committed to the elimination of slavery and human trafficking by the year 2020 today at the Vatican. The catalyst behind this meeting, […]
Genesis of the Jamaat By Tahir Ali, November 30, 2014 Does Munawwar Hasan know the implications of his views? Addressing last week’s Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) annual gathering in Lahore, former JI Ameer Munawwar Hasan said that it was beyond the system based on elections to […]
Junaid Jamshaid, Islamic preacher accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Latest uproar targets prominent former rock star’s comments about one of Muhammad’s wives A sign at a rally in Karachi on Monday denounces prominent Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed for making allegedly blasphemous remarks. ucanews.com reporter, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2, 2014 Hundreds of […]
Dawn: “I assure you all that I am hurt but not out. I am shocked, but more determined. I felt injured, but stronger than ever,” said Indian television personality and actor Gauhar Khan, who was recently slapped by an audience member while hosting a television show, in a statement she […]
Guardian: The Muhammad myth is a popular one. For at least four years there have been numerous news reports declaring that Mohammed is the most popular boy’s name in the country. […]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 Perspective: Wahhabism to ISIS – how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism By Karen Armstrong ________________________________________ Although IS is certainly an Islamic movement, it is neither typical nor mired in the distant past, because its roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam […]
Agence France Presse CAIRO: The head of Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious centers of Sunni learning, Wednesday condemned “barbaric crimes” committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Militants are acting “under the guise of this holy religion and have given themselves the name ‘Islamic State’ in an attempt to […]
AMMAN — Minister of Interior Hussein Majali emphasised at a meeting with Japan’s Ambassador to Jordan Shunichi Sakurai on Monday that Jordan and Japan are bound by strategic and distinguished relations that should be built on in the best interests of the two countries, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. […]
Wednesday, 3 December 2014 Chris Doyle Two brothers faced each other in wheelchairs. Only by sheer accident of fate did these two Syrian refugees find themselves reunited in a small center in central Amman. Every refugee there had a story, each one enough to scar for a lifetime. Many at […]
We love the wives of our favourite monsters. And the rumours which surround them. Fresh from spitting out our hatred of Madame Asma al-Assad and making fun of the late […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Just after midnight on December 2, about 20 gunmen from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab rousted awake miners sleeping in a tented camp at a quarry near the border town of Mandera. According to witnesses, the attackers separated the Muslims from the non-Muslims. Those unable to […]