Summary An ISIS commander threatened to kidnap Lebanese women and children and end negotiations over the captive servicemen unless his wife and children, detained by authorities last week, are released soon. Shishani denied what he said were claims that the woman was ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife, saying that […]
ROBERT FISK Thursday 04 December 2014 Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man. And so he should be. He says that he and his two colleagues from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera channel – Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed – were imprisoned by the Egyptians to “teach Qatar a lesson” because the emirate […]
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge: How ignoring some basic facts exacerbates our country’s race problem. I remember having to explain to my […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/12/05/pkg-soares-nyc-chokehold-global-reaction.cnn By Ben Brumfield (CNN) — If the color were removed from the boundless images of protests on America’s streets over the last two nights, they might be mistaken for […]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today attended a fundraising dinner marking 10 years of charitable work and disaster relief by Humanity First Canada, a mission of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. All […]
Source: Global News More Ontarians are reporting mental anguish and almost a quarter million have considered killing themselves in the past 12 months, according to a report from the Centre […]
Preet Didbal (centre) sworn in Tuesday among family UPDATED 9:13 AM PST Dec 03, 2014 http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/sikh-woman-makes-history-as-yuba-city-councilmember/30030992 YUBA CITY, Calif. (KCRA) —It’s history in the making as a woman of Sikh descent is the first one elected to City Council, likely not just in California, but in the nation. Preet Didbal, […]
Two female women’s rights activists have been detained by Saudi Arabia at the border from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a protest against the kingdom’s ban on women driving. Saudi celebrity and human rights activist Loujain al-Hathoul, aged 25, attempted to drive a car across the border from the […]
Brother of federal cabinet minister Tim Uppal charged in drug sting CBC News Posted: Dec 03, 2014 2:03 PM MTLast Updated: Dec 03, 2014 2:03 PM MT Tim Uppal, Conservative MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park, is Canada’s minister of state for multiculturalism. Raymanpreet Singh Uppal, the younger brother of Tim Uppal, […]
By Mrs Hajira Mansoora, Sadar Lajna Immillah, Shimoga, Karnataka, India A report on social services (Khidmat-e-Khalq) by Lajna Immailliah (Women’s Wing) of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Shimoga, Karnataka, India. Shimoga 14th Nov: […]
by Qasim Rashid I remember having to explain to my then three-year-old why the Taliban shot Malala. It was a difficult conversation because he loves Malala, but it was easy to explain why killing is wrong and that the Taliban is evil. The world condemned the Taliban and, thankfully, Malala […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘Bring forward your proof if you are truthful.’ (Al Quran 27:65) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times My Exhibit A in favor of […]
Guardian: Is there a place for ethics and morality in the global economy? Should we continue to rely on governments to tweak at the margins of financial regulation, or is […]
Strengthening families is a subject which is one of the core issues of the contemporary world. Hundreds and thousands families are breaking every year around the world. Lack of stable […]
Forbes: by Denise Restuari — What are successful women in their thirties thinking, doing and saying? For my Forbes eBook,Their Roaring Thirties, I interviewed over 100 women who are navigating through a decade that is sandwiched between millennial superstars and women at the top –women who are too old to […]
abc.net: by Ursula Malone — One of the last remaining synagogues in western Sydney could be given a new lease of life as a mosque. PHOTO: Rabbi Samuel Tov-Lev is uncomfortable with the prospect of the synagogue becoming a place of worship for another religion. (ABC) The Strathfield War Memorial […]
By Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent Stephen Hawking: “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories […]
Market watch: MOSCOW — Striking a defiant tone, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of provoking a crisis in Ukraine and using sanctions to try to constrain […]
The Nation: by Zoe Carpenter — Shortly before 2 in the afternoon on Sunday, more than a dozen people walked onto an interstate near the Capitol in Washington and formed a human chain. Eight lanes of traffic came to halt. During rush hour the next morning, protestors closed down the […]
Global Post: It’s been a long year for humanity. There’s been Ebola, the ongoing Syrian civil war, the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Gaza war, Boko Haram, the disappearance and probable murder of 43 students in Mexico, and more. We […]