Anti-IS war being led by a woman
BEIRUT: A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State militants in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani, a monitoring group and activists said Sunday. “Mayssa Abdo, known […]
The Nobel winner Pakistan won’t celebrate
Hindustan Times: The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai has been officially welcomed in Pakistan, but there is one Pakistani Nobel Prize winner the country continues to ignore and scorn: Abdus Salam, an Ahmadiya Muslim, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. The Ahmadiya community reportedly […]
Bill Maher’s horrible excuse: Why his defense of Islamophobia just doesn’t make any sense
Salon: Her words seem particularly apt this week in light of Bill Maher’s recent opening of the Islamophobic floodgates during his “Last Word” interview with Sam Harris and Ben Affleck. In the now infamous segment, Harris argues “Islam is the mother load of bad ideas” and that “We are misled to […]
Robert Fisk on Isis: Beware of the role of the laptop in our addiction to politics and war. – It is the internet not Isis that radicalises. The ‘virtual’ has dropped out of ‘virtual reality’
Ever since the Pentagon started talking about Isis as apocalyptic, I’ve suspected that websites and blogs and YouTube are taking over from reality. I’m even wondering whether “Isis” – or […]
Both Pakistan’s Nobel winners are united by the tragedy of forced exile
Scroll In: There is no escaping the irony that the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 has gone jointly to two child rights advocates from Pakistan and India – 17-year old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year old Kailash Satyarthi – while the armies of their countries trade bullets and kill innocents across […]
Islamic Scholars are Failing the Muslim World- Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan: ‘ISIL’s acts are un-Islamic’ The prominent Muslim academic on the threat of the Islamic State group and how scholars are failing the Muslim world. An ‘Islamic Caliphate’, a […]
A Muslim’s invitation to the new atheists: Dawkins, Ali, and Harris
Daily Caller: With Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an uproar over her unvitation from Brandeis University, and Richard Dawkins beginning his American tour, what better time to invite them to work together to […]
Our Favorite Christian Prayer by Saint Francis
Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d’Assisi); nicknamed Francesco; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226)[1][3] was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor and the women’s Order […]
eDigest: First Ebola transmission in U.S.: Texas healthcare worker tests positive
The Muslim Times Tagline: Ebola is here to show the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others that we are all one and in same boat. May God keep us safe. Ameen! First Ebola transmission in U.S.: Texas healthcare worker tests positive The Muslim Times Tagline: Ebola is here to show the Muslims, […]
Malaysia: “Islamic conservatism spells bad news for Muslims” says banned Indonesian scholar
Source: themalaymailonline.com He has spoken out against the religious edicts issued by Indonesia’s top Islamic council of clerics, including a prohibition for Muslims to offer Christmas greetings to Christians, and his […]
India and Africa: How Africa shaped India’s History
When Black Was No Bar: How Africans Shaped India’s History By Manimugdha S Sharma, Times of India Oct 10, 2014 Behind the high walls of a lost fortress in what is today south Delhi blossomed the love story of Delhi’s first woman ruler and her Abyssinian general. Historians are divided […]
First Ebola transmission in U.S.: Texas healthcare worker tests positive
The Muslim Times Tagline: Ebola is here to show the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others that we are all one and in same boat. May God keep us safe. Ameen! (CNN) — […]
Science and fundamentalism are tearing religion apart
Science is playing a steadily larger and more personal role in helping us tell the difference between what is and what ain’t. In that capacity it has undermined what many of us once expected religion to provide, inspiring an increasingly angry and violent reaction from those who feel their very […]
UN: Ebola outbreak could be controlled in three months
The UN special envoy on Ebola says he hopes that the outbreak can be brought under control within three months. David Nabarro told the BBC the number of Ebola cases was currently increasing exponentially, but greater community awareness would help contain the virus. People were becoming aware that isolating those infected was […]
Cameroon flies freed Boko Haram hostages to capital
Twenty-seven people including 10 Chinese workers held for months by suspected Boko Haram militants have arrived in Cameroon’s capital. The hostages were flown to Yaounde from the country’s far northern region after being freed early on Saturday. They include the wife of Cameroon’s Vice-Prime Minister, Amadou Ali. READ MORE…
UN chief calls for peace in Libya during surprise visit
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has called for peace in Libya during a surprise visit to Tripoli as part of a UN-brokered reconciliation process. On his first visit since 2011, when Col Muammar Gaddafi was ousted, he told MPs meeting at a hotel in the city there was “no […]
Malala to get Honorary Canadian Citizenship Oct 22
By Agencies Published a day ago BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousufzai piictured with mother Tor Pekai (right), brothers Khushal (left) and Atal, and father Ziauddin here on Friday.—AFP OTTAWA: Many world leaders paid tribute to Malala Yousufzai on Friday after it was announced that she had been awarded Nobel Peace Prize, but […]
A letter from Dr Abdus Salam to Malala
Dawn.com: by Faraz Talat — You were mocked and alienated by your countrymen, when you did nothing wrong. I know something of that. Disclaimer: the blog post below is an imagining of what Dr Abdus Salam would convey to Malala today Dear Malala, Despite all that occurred, I’d always lugged […]
SWISS PRESS REVIEW: Is education the answer? Swiss look to Nobel winners
OCT 11, 2014 – 13:30 Newspapers in Switzerland took their lead from Friday’s announcement of the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi, […]
How Not to Run a War Coalition: The (US) Administration blames Turkey for the catastrophe in Syria.
President Obama likes to list “our friends and partners” who have signed up for his military campaign in Iraq and Syria. If only he knew how to lead such a wartime coalition. This week’s handling of the crisis on the Syrian-Turkish border is a case study in mismanagement. True to […]