Giving Honor to the Dreamer
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Had he lived to see January 15th, 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 85 years-old. He would have witnessed the death of […]
Why plural marriages make sense
Source: CNN I am sure that many marriage equality opponents reading this are shouting “I told you so!” as their predictions that plural marriage would follow same-sex marriage come nightmarishly true. Many grew up as I did, in a time and place where the single-wage-earner nuclear family was the unquestioned […]
Worst yet to come in Australia heatwave
Source: TOI: SYDNEY: Australians sweltering through an extreme heatwave were warned that the worst was yet to come Thursday, with hundreds of fires raging in several states and temperatures nearing record highs. Most of southeast Australia has been in the grips of a scorching heatwave that triggered a devastating wildfire on the west […]
Gulf between rich and poor ‘is biggest global risk’
WEF: Economic, societal and environmental risks dominate list of global risks LONDON: The growing gulf between the rich and the poor represents the biggest global risk this year, the World Economic Forum has declared ahead of this month’s Davos summit. The institution issued the gloomy warning in its annual Global […]
Danish woman gang-raped for 3 hours in heart of Delhi?
NEW DELHI: Less than 13 months after Nirbhaya’s brutal gang-rape had city authorities promising a safer Delhi for women, precious little seems to have changed. Horror and shame revisited the capital on Tuesday, when a 51-year-old Danish tourist was repeatedly raped by eight-nine men in a garden just a stone’s throw away […]
Russia faces serious threats to its stability from Islamic insurgencies?
Source: Asia Times: Russia faces serious threats to its stability from Islamic insurgencies. Recent suicide blasts in Volgograd were a painful reminder of this. Historically, Russia has tried to suppress Islamic movements (also religious activities in general) not only in Russia but also in Central Asian states (especially in the […]
Jerusalem Councilman Urges Muslims: ‘Leave Israel’ Nationalist Aryeh King distributes thousands of fliers to Muslim residents of the capital, explains Torah directives.
By Ari Yashar First Publish: 1/15/2014, 11:23 AM Aryeh King, Jerusalem Councilman of the United Jerusalem faction, has begun a new campaign distributing thousands of fliers to Arab residents of Jerusalem, urging them to leave Israel. “You have many large countries that you can live in. Understand that we returned […]
British premier says no evidence yet of SAS role in Golden Temple attack
ET: LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he had not so far seen any evidence that the English government of Margaret Thatcher had helped India plan a deadly […]
Chimpanzees Bond Over Shared Meals, ‘Love Hormone’ Study Shows
Source: Huffington Post By FRANK JORDANS 01/15/14 BERLIN (AP) — Chimpanzees who share are chimpanzees who care, it seems. A study published Wednesday appears to confirm that friendships are forged […]
Perspective: Muzaffar Ahmad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – The first civilian Pakistani to catch a suicide bomber alive
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Muzaffar Ahmad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is perhaps the first civilian Pakistani who caught the suicide bomber alive without any use of weapon and handed over to the police. […]
Pakistan: A 17 year old Ahmadi boy shot dead in Rawalpindi
Dated: 2014 Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The killings are the direct result of a reckless disregard by Pakistani authorities of the hate-materials routinely published against Ahmadi Muslim which openly provoke and incite public […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chandigarh Distributes Peace leaflets at Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh
Date: Sunday, 12 January 2014 Place: Chandigarh, India Peace leaflets distribution drive was organised by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chandigarh at the country famous Sukhna Lake. After Namaz-e-Asar seven members of Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya […]
Syria conflict: Half population urgently need aid – UN
Source: BBC The UN secretary general says that half of Syria’s population, some 9.3 million people, are in urgent need of aid. Ban Ki-moon was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait promoting the UN’s largest ever appeal for a single issue. The meeting aimed to raise $6.5bn (£4bn) – […]
নবীনেতা-মুহাম্মদ (সা:) এর জীবনী – Holy Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) Biography (Bangla & English)
Promoted posts: A Gem, A Quranic Verse: Is the Ukrainian Blood Holier Than the Middle Eastern? and We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy The […]
eDigest: Qur’an Exhibition at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Epigraph: Will they not, then, meditate upon the Qur’an? Had it been from anyone other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much disagreement and contradictions. (Al Quran 4:83) Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Lead report by Dr. Amtul Q Farhat, The Muslim Times’ Editor for Canada Qur’an Exhibition […]
Muslim World Leader Opens Mosque in Sussex
LONDON, January 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The county of Sussex is to have its first Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque opened in Crawley on Saturday 18th January. It will be inaugurated by His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide […]
Pakistan tops list of countries with most religious hostilities:
Source: ET Globally, acts of religious hostility hit a six-year high in 2012 with Muslims and Jews suffering most hostility. PHOTO: FILE A report placed Pakistan at the top of a list of 198 countries most suffering from social hostilities involving religion, by the end of 2012. The Pew Research Center’s […]
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Task Force Report Urges Municipalities to Stop Hiding Fiscal Troubles
WASHINGTON — After years of painful service cuts and devastating bankruptcies, culminating in the financial collapse of Detroit, state and local governments are being urged to stop using budget gimmicks that obscure the true extent of their money problems. On Tuesday, the State Budget Crisis Task Force released its final […]