Why Tensions are Soaring in Mother (in law) India, Toronto Star February 17, 2014 Hamida Ghafour, Forein Affairs Correspondent Arti learned the rules of her marriage when she moved in with husband Vishal’s parents the day after their wedding. She was not allowed to sit on a sofa, chair or […]
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Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Those of us, who have seen the Message movie, about the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and most of the Muslims […]
Salon.com: Susan Patton wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion column that is so intentionally terrible and goading that I kind of want to pinch its cheeks. It really is that adorable. “Smarten up, ladies,” the Princeton Mom begins. And by “smarten up,” Patton means land a man while you are still in college, because […]
Russia Today: Following decades of a heavily subdued program, Germany is planning to resume counter-espionage against both the US and other Western allies in response to ongoing revelations surrounding NSA’s […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani Muslim rulers through the 14 centuries have kept a tight control over the clergy, ceding them some space here and there but in the main disallowing them from imposing their will on the people Maulana Abdul Aziz — of the burka fame — has been […]
Dear readers of The Muslim Times, We notice that News from the African Muslim World is still under-represented in The Muslim Times. Readers from Africa or readers familiar with Africa […]
Source: The Nation By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid As Pakistan mulls over rewinding the clock back a millennia-and-a-half by imposing Sharia under the Taliban gun, Tunisia is celebrating arguably the most […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies February 17, 2014 – 09:16 The European Union has halted talks to include Switzerland in multi-billion euro research and education schemes in retaliation of last week’s Swiss […]
Source: New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNERFEB RAMALLAH, West Bank — A decade ago, after the suicide bombings of the second Palestinian uprising, Israelis mostly came to Ramallah and the […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The world cannot turn a blind eye to America’s drone attacks in Pakistan – Why was Karim Khan prevented from speaking out against drone warfare? […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent A test for readers: name the British Prime Minister described here, shortly after he used a dishonest excuse to invade an Arab country: “His […]
By: Sarah Weiss (Scroll down for video) Three people fell into an icy river while trying to retrieve a cellphone. Two people have lost their lives and one is hospitalized, […]
Source: EMU via Muhamed Jusic Strasbourg (EMU) – Following riots and attacks on a Mosque in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, European Muslims reacted with apprehension towards this new outburst of anti-Muslim hatred in this member-state of the European Union. On Friday, 14th February 2014, hundreds of nationalists, fascists and […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection. It would avoid emails and other data automatically passing through the United States. […]
Source: BBC Australian spies tapped a US law firm representing Indonesia in a trade dispute with the US, new leaks say. The 2013 document obtained by the New York Times does not […]
By Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) Several months ago when I wrote about the looming danger of the growing strength of Salafist-takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria, I focused on the threats that thousands of their fighters, bombers and terrorists posed to those countries and also to […]
Source: gbcghana.com The spiritual head of the Ahmadiya Muslim Community Worldwide, Hadzrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has called on world leaders to act with justice based on divine instructions. This he said would […]
Epigraph: Those who believe and do good deeds — the Gracious God will create love in their hearts. So We have made it (the Qur’an) easy in thy tongue that thou mayest give thereby good tidings to the righteous, and warn thereby a people given to contention. (Al Quran 19:97-98) […]