Source: Asia Times: By Mikhail A Molchanov After Ukraine’s pro-European protesters took to the streets to denounce the government’s backtracking on the European Union Association Agreement, things went south for both the protesters and the government. While protesters were beaten up by the police, the government endured a siege of […]
Source: Asia Times: By Mikhail A Molchanov After Ukraine’s pro-European protesters took to the streets to denounce the government’s backtracking on the European Union Association Agreement, things went south for both the protesters and the government. While protesters were beaten up by the police, the government endured a siege of […]
Source: Asia Times: GENEVA – As the Syrian crisis is poised to enter into its third year, it is estimated that 25% of the country’s inhabitants have been uprooted, including more than 2 million refugees abroad and about 4.5 million internally displaced people. With the conflict showing no sign of […]
Vatican City: Where the First and the Second Vatican Councils were held Lead article written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A Journey from Christianity to Islam: First Ecumenical Council to Vatican II (325 CE – 1965 CE) Written and collected by Zia […]
posted by Zia Shah Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of their imagination, […]
November 23, 2013 Goshen News Jesus is central to Christianity, likely more so than Mohammed is to Islam or the Buddha to Buddhism, and this importance of Jesus seems to have produced claims about him beyond the story in the canonical Gospels. Recently Karen L. King, a professor at Harvard, […]
As this brown, bearded Muslim was getting ready to pick up his Thanksgiving turkey order from a local Boston Market, news broke of racist graffiti in New York city. Dr. Faheem YounusMuslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist HUFFPOST RELIGION Gap had recently launched a holiday ad campaign featuring diverse models. One […]
Source: BBC By Tim Mansel News of a secret police register in Sweden containing the names of 4,000 people, most of them Roma, has tarnished the Swedish reputation for tolerance and resulted in anti-Roma prejudice being described as the last “acceptable racism” in the country. “When I saw this I […]
by Omar Shahid Omar Shahid is a freelance journalist specialising in religious affairs. He blogs at: omarshahid.co.uk Ten years ago, a young and unassuming British-Azerbaijani, who’d recently had a spiritual […]
Source: Spiegel Germany launched a new push to outlaw the NPD party on Tuesday amid doubts whether the legal bid will succeed, and whether a ban would significantly curb the […]
Source: Spiegel Germany launched a new push to outlaw the NPD party on Tuesday amid doubts whether the legal bid will succeed, and whether a ban would significantly curb the […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Wednesday 4 December 2013 ARABNEWS The top two prizes of the King Abdul Aziz International Qur’an contest, which was held at the Grand Mosque […]
BERLIN: Five Arab countries are ranked among the top 10 most corrupt nations, according to Transparency International’s newly released annual Corruption Perceptions Index, as instability in the region has profound […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch December 3, 2013 – 11:00 Forty years after Japanese quartz watches brought the Swiss watch industry to its knees, the sector faces a new challenge in […]
Source: Dawn An imam from a tiny hamlet on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has run into trouble with the country’s powerful religious authorities — for his other life as a rock musician. Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer told AFP he is being investigated by the Diyanet, the […]
Source: Dawn An imam from a tiny hamlet on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has run into trouble with the country’s powerful religious authorities — for his other life as a rock musician. Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer told AFP he is being investigated by the Diyanet, the […]
Huff Post — VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library have put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize some of the most important works of their collections of Hebrew manuscripts, […]
Huff Post: by Deepak Chopra — To summarize the situation, we have three mysteries that we do not understand: the unpredictable movements of atoms, the existence of our own consciousness, and the friendliness of the universe to life and mind. I am only saying that the three mysteries are probably […]
Reuters) – U.S. small businesses boosted borrowing in October to its highest level in over six years, an index showed on Tuesday, fresh evidence that the budget battle that shut the federal government for 16 days did little to derail underlying economic growth. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, […]
Source: Spiegel: German jihadists are heading to Syria in ever greater numbers, with some 230 having already traveled to join the opposition in battle. A German politician wants to create an early warning system to prevent young men from making the trip. More: