Dear North America, You’re Not As Great As You Think
Last week, Iranian-American scholar Reza Aslan taught all North Americans a lesson: don’t generalize when it comes to regions of the world you know nothing about. In an interview with […]
If great architecture belongs to humanity, do we have a responsibility to save it in wartimes?
The lands of Syria and Iraq gave rise to some the oldest societies we know: the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Parthians, the Romans and many others. […]
Don’t Sell Consumer Spending Short, a Report Says
The encouraging September jobs report, which showed unemployment dipping below 6 percent, stole the limelight on Friday, but it is the quiet release of another government report that has presented economists with unexpected fodder for debate. An article, published in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Monthly Labor Review, dismissed warnings […]
White House jabs Netanyahu over ‘American values’ critique
Yahoo.com: Washington (AFP) – The White House delivered an extraordinary public rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after he said US criticism of Israeli settlement building ran counter to “American values.” It was another turn for the worse in the tense relationship between President Barack Obama’s administration and […]
Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources
Guardian: Eleven Nobel laureates will pool their clout to sound a warning, declaring that mankind is living beyond its means and darkening its future. At a conference in Hong Kong […]
Qatar and Saudi Arabia ‘have ignited time bomb by funding global spread of radical Islam’
Telegraph: Qatar and Saudi Arabia have ignited a “time bomb” by funding the global spread of radical Islam, according to a former commander of British forces in Iraq. General Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia […]
Ebola outbreak: Spain investigates new case
Investigations are under way at a hospital in Madrid after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside West Africa. The nurse had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of the disease after being flown home from the region. Three other people, […]
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics: Invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, of Meijo University in Nagoya and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled […]
Nobel Prize for the brain’s GPS discovery
BBC.com: by James Gallagher — Edvard Moser, John O’Keefe and May-Britt Moser share the Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain’s “GPS system”. UK-based researcher Prof John O’Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the […]
Doctors warn of a Royal Commission into detention abuse
by Sarah Whyte — Christmas Island: A report has shown 80 per cent of paediatricians believe offshore processing of children constitutes abuse. Christmas Island: A report has shown 80 per cent of paediatricians believe offshore processing of children constitutes abuse. Photo: James Brickwood Doctors have warned that a royal commission […]
ISIS’ Ammunition Is Shown to Have Origins in U.S. and China
The New York Times: by C. J. CHIVERS — In its campaign across northern Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State has been using ammunition from the United States and other countries that have been supporting the regional security forces fighting the group, according to new field data gathered by a […]
Africa: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community donated £10,000 to Liberia to fight Ebola
Source: allafrica.com The Headquarters of the AHMADIYYA community in the United Kingdom donated 10,000 pounds to Liberia’s Ambassador in the UK on behalf of the AHMADIYYA community around the world as […]
Nominating Karen Armstrong for Literature Nobel Prize
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A […]
Lebanon faces Isis and Nusra incursions – and an influx of refugees
Arab compatriots show little sympathy for Syrian families fleeing violence ROBERT FISK Author Biography BEIRUT Monday 06 October 2014 The shooting went on for hours, heard even in the centre of ancient Baalbek as Hezbollah and the Jabhat al-Nusra/Isis insurgents from Syria fought it out on the ridgeline above the […]
Tuvalu: Eid-ul-Adha and 1st Meeting of Majlis Amla Khuddam by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: ahmadiyyatuvalu.wordpress.com Tuvaluan Ahmadis have celebrated Eidul Adha on 5thOctober, 2014. The celebration was begun with Eid prayer at 08.00 am at Tuvalu Mosque. The Imam of Tuvalu Mosque,Mr. Muhammad Idrees […]
Physics Nobel prize goes to scientists who perfected LED light
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN October 7, 2014 (CNN) — Two scientists in Japan and one at the University of California at Santa Barbara were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for […]
HUMAN RIGHTS Israel refuses to renew travel documents for Jerusalemite in Canada
Charlotte Silver The Electronic Intifada 6 October 2014 In May of this year, Tamam Zubaidi received deeply disturbing word from the Israeli consulate in Toronto. Her travel documents would not be renewed and her permanent residency status in Jerusalem had expired. Tamam, a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem, had moved […]
Eid: binding celebration
Summary Perhaps no time in recent memory has seen such international attention focused on Islam and Muslims, while sectarian tension, pitting Sunnis against Shiites, is rife in several critically-important areas of the Middle East. Islam itself has been hijacked by a group of ultra-extremists who have distorted centrally-important aspects of […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 257. Commandment not to hide the truth knowingly
257. Commandment not to hide the truth knowingly [2:43] And confound not truth with falsehoodnor hide the truth, knowingly. [3:72] O People of the Book! why do you confound truth with falsehood and hide the truth knowingly?
Somali troops in ‘full control’ of Barawe
Somali government and African Union (AU) forces have taken full control of the last port city held by militant Islamists, officials say. Heavy gunfire could be heard as the AU and Somali forces entered Barawe, 220km (135 miles) south-west of the capital Mogadishu, on Monday, residents said. READ MORE…