Dawn: One of the most fascinating characters in the initial saga of the painful birth of Pakistan is Fatima Jinnah, the frail-looking, graceful but gritty sister of the founder of the nation, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She was a passionate political worker, a determined activist for women’s rights and a qualified […]
Lost lands are littered with the homes of those who lived there. Armenian houses in south-eastern Turkey. Abandoned Palestinian homes in Israel. German property in what was the Sudetenland and […]
PM proposes rare change to basic law in response to ‘constant and increasing assault’ on aspects of Israel’s legitimacy Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem theguardian.com, Sunday 4 May 2014 19.03 BST Binyamin Netanyahu will push ahead with a rare change to Israel’s basic laws – which amount to the country’s constitution […]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to hold talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Doha on Monday for the first meeting since their rival movements signed a […]
GUWAHATI: India deployed troops to the state of Assam on Saturday after over 30 Muslims were gunned down in three days of what police said were attacks by tribal militants who resent the presence of immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Police found nine more bodies Saturday, taking the death toll to […]
ASKAR REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank: Suad Abu Fayed and her husband have had no physical contact for more than 11 years. That is how long he has been in an […]
Gunmen shot dead 10 foreign tourists at its base camp last year, but for serious mountaineers, the allure of Pakistan’s “killer mountain” remains irresistible. Militants stormed Nanga Parbat base camp […]
Source: BBC Dismissing the implications of highly intelligent machines could be humankind’s “worst mistake in history”, write astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, computer scientist Stuart Russell, and physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek in […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
111. Satan keeps you back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. But will you keep back? [5:92] Satan desires only to create enmity and hatred among you by means of wine and the game of hazard, and to keep you back from the remembrance of Allah and from […]
Source: ghanaweb.com Ghanaians have been advised to aspire to moral uprightness for their spiritual uplift and national economic growth and development. The Minister of Health, Ms. Sherry Ayittey, gave the advice […]
Epigraph: Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Lead post by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
JERUSALEM: Five times a day, loudspeakers at the top of nearly 200 minarets in this holy city call to Muslims to pray. They blare before dawn and the wailing cry […]
Sikh soldier lays at rest, far from homeland and adopted land Sunta Gouger Singh was among 10 Sikh soldiers who fought with Canada in the Great War, and the first […]
Religion News Service | by Kimberly Winston Posted: 05/03/2014 8:25 am EDT (RNS) A new paper draws an intriguing conclusion to a question scholars have wrestled with […]
Story Summary The Palestinians are in the most difficult position, given their relative weakness militarily, their fragmentation politically, and their vulnerability economically. Yet this moment is also one of opportunity for the Palestinians, on three important fronts: national unity, coordinated political resistance and the mobilization of international support. The PLO […]
Story Summary Tens of thousands of Syrians fled inter-jihadist fighting in the east as rebels Saturday neared a final deal with the government to withdraw from their last besieged strongholds […]
Muslim parliamentarians in Sri Lanka have called for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to intervene in order to stop the continued hate campaign, intimidation and threats perpetrated against Muslims by some Buddist […]
Several Haj and Umrah pilgrimage establishments have stopped accepting applications for Umrah visas from pilgrims over 60, as well as children, following a Health Ministry advisory to that effect as […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — In an interview with Reason magazine, this became clear when the interviewer asked if by “defeating Islam” Hirsi Ali meant, “defeating radical Islam?” She replied: “No. Islam, period.” When the reporter asked her to further elaborate what she meant by “defeat Islam” she replied: “I […]