Muslim Community Looks Back at 125 Years of Changing the World
Alislam: Today marks the 125th anniversary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian – The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi Today, 23 March 2014, marks the […]
Pakistan erased Int. NYT cover story
Pakistan erased an entire International New York Times cover story By Chris Welch on March 22, 2014 12:53 pm Email 191Comments Don’t miss stories Follow The Verge 71 inShare Today’s edition of The International New York Times was stripped of its cover story in Pakistan. Instead of seeing a lengthy report on […]
Lahore Resolution and Pakistani minorities
During the closing stages of the independence movement, the ulema were used by Congress to bring down the Muslim League and its leadership. There are a few points that are never considered when the Lahore Resolution is discussed. Foremost is the fact that there is no reference to Islam or a […]
Special Message by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V on 23rd March 2014 (Arabic)
Alislam.org: Khalifa of Islam speaking to Arabs on this historical day directly as a part live transmission from Qadian. May Allah bless our Arab friends with the acceptance of Ahmadiyya […]
Rejecting the Myth of Sanctioned Child Marriage in Islam
Source: The Huffington Post By Dr. David Liepert, Muslim Author, Leader, Spokesperson, Host of “The Optimistic Muslim” on webtalkradio.net Name one thing Muslims and Christians share? Their level effort pointing fingers elsewhere […]
8 Ancient Beliefs Now Backed By Modern Science
Huff Post: by Aleena Hall — The Earth may not be flat nor is it the center of the universe, but that doesn’t mean old-world intellectuals got everything wrong. In fact, in recent years, modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, […]
‘Cloth’ Video Art Piece By LSE Students Will Make You Question Your Assumptions About The Veil
Huff Post — A veil is just a piece of cloth, but it often takes on enormous political and social implications that can fail to take the agency of the wearer into account. “cloth,” a video art piece by London School of Economics students in the MSc. Gender, Media and Culture program, seeks to start […]
As U.S. war ends, Russia returns to Afghanistan with series of investment projects
Source: The Washington Post KABUL — To the white-bearded Afghan machinists, it felt like the Cold War era had suddenly returned. After 25 years of working in a sprawling Soviet-built factory […]
Video: Special Message, in Arabic, by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V, on 23rd March 2014
Message in Arabic with Urdu subtitles: To mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, its World Head, the Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has delivered […]
eDigest: Women’s World Congress – Hyderabad INDIA
Epigraph Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful women, and men steadfast in their faith and steadfast women, and men who are humble and women who are humble, […]
The 10 Best Weather Places in the World
Weatherwise: by Ed Darack — Splintering gale force winds, stabbing cold, blistering heat, blinding fog, pitiless rain … the sky can foul our lives in endless ways to all degrees, from the mild sting of an icy breeze on our ears to the lethal crush of a hurricane’s storm surge. […]
23rd March 1889: The Birth of Ahmadiyya- Revival of True Islam by Promised Messiah
Alislam.org: He it is Who has raised among the unlettered people a Messenger from among themselves who recites unto them His Signs, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book […]
Religious Police Go Far Beyond Saudi Arabia, Found In Nearly One-In-Ten Countries
Huff Post — While Saudi Arabia is well-known for its “religious police” that enforce government-approved religious moral codes, from gender-segregation and the ban of alcohol to rules against women driving, a Pew Research Center analysishas found that similar religious police exist in nearly one-in-ten countries. Pew’s findings on religious police, part […]
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology has been in overdrive
Khaled Ahmed | March 21, 2014 9:53 am, Indian Express CII has become aggressive with Talibanisation and the capacity of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to target-kill people supporting modern or “liberal” views. (Reuters) Summary In Pakistan, the Council of Islamic Ideology has been in overdrive. It could be a portent. […]
Islamic law is adopted by British legal chiefs
Telegraph: Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under guidelines for solicitors on drawing up “Sharia compliant” wills. Under ground-breaking guidance, […]
‘Noah’ Film Receives Praise From Christian Evangelicals Unfazed By ‘Creative Interpretation’
Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming Biblical drama “Noah” may be “the least biblical biblical film ever made,” as the director said, but it turns out quite a few Christian leaders enjoy the […]
Qutb, Maududi and the military
ET: If you can’t win the game, change the rules. This has been the cornerstone of the political ideology of religious groups from Egypt to Pakistan. It all started from Syed Qutb in Egypt and his mentor Maulana Maududi in Pakistan. Qutb, upon his return from the United States, became increasingly disturbed […]
The Politics of Witchcraft Studies
Suppressed Histories: by Max Dashu I would like to offer an alternative to the locked-in polarity between some of the more uninformed Wiccan takes on history and the denial by many academic historians that repression of social and cultural groups played any role in the witch hunts. Of course, the […]
When one New Zealand school tossed its playground rules and let students risk injury, the results were surprising
National Post: by Sarah Boesveld — AUCKLAND, New Zealand — It was a meeting Principal Bruce McLachlan awaited with dread. One of the 500 students at Swanson School in a northwest borough of Auckland had just broken his arm on the playground, and surely the boy’s parent, who had requested […]
President Obama To Meet Pope Francis On March 27: What To Expect
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Comment: I hope President Obama openly acknowledges some of his Islamic background, to the Pope and presents him a new book by Prof. Bart Ehrman, coming […]