It can only get better from here — or at least that’s what economists hope. New data from the government due out Wednesday is expected to show that the economy came close to stalling during the spring quarter, which ran from April through June. But many experts say the latest […]
Business Insider: Rob Wile. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy. It’s taken a while for such a prominent Saudi to acknowledge this fact. But it’s been pretty clear to the rest of the world. In […]
Source: Dawn By Tahir Mehdi: He works with Punjab Lok Sujag, a research and advocacy group that has a primary interest in understanding governance and democracy. Our political discourse is dominated by two competing narratives of the recent history of Pakistan. Each claims to be ideologically rooted. The dominant one describes […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have added the name Muhammad, may peace be on him, to the title as the article is about him. Source: The Telegraph Calcutta: A messiah of […]
The Jakarta Post, Political pragmatism by major political parties, that have long pandered to majority Sunni voters, has prevented the parties from protecting the rights of minority Muslim groups such […]
Huff Post: We’ve been hearing for years that fewer and fewer people are tying the knot, and a new study reveals just how much the marriage rate has declined in the last century. A new report released Thursday by Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Marriage and Family Research found […]
(Reuters) – Traditionally Catholic Ireland has allowed an atheist group to perform weddings this year for the first time, and the few people certified to celebrate them are overwhelmed by hundreds of […]
Huff Post: Faheem Younas: Who can decipher the mind of a terrorist? In the post 9/11 America, there is a dollar-spending, ink-spilling, competition between the government and the academia to […]
The Huffington Post: By Faheem Younus, Who can decipher the mind of a terrorist? In the post 9/11 America, there is a dollar-spending, ink-spilling, competition between the government and the […]
The Jakarta Globe: I’m pretty sure a vast majority of Indonesians would prefer the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) to be put to an end, even though the leaders of the […]
For the first time in nearly three years, Israeli and Palestinian officials resumed peace talks in Washington D.C. on Monday, July 29, 2013 after intense U.S. mediation. The talks will […]
by Khetam Malkawi 29 July 2013 Jordan Times AMMAN — One year after the official opening of the Zaatari Refugee Camp in the northern Governorate of Mafraq, relief organisations see […]
STORY SUMMARY EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held two hours of talks with Egypt’s deposed president Mohammad Morsi, in custody since shortly after the July 3 coup, her spokeswoman […]
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the […]
by JT | Jul 29, 2013 | 23:24 AMMAN — Asharq Alawsat, the Britain-based Arabic newspaper, published an editorial on Monday hailing the ability of Jordan to remain a pillar […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 30 July 2013 The King Abdullah bin Abdualziz Zamzam Water Project has produced more than 48 million cans of Zamzam water since its inception, meeting growing […]
The Muslim Times’ question or food for thought regarding the dilemma between evolution and creationism: What bearing does evolution has on Original Sin? Were Adam and Eve the first human […]
Source: BBC Taliban militants wearing police uniform have launched an assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan. The attack on the jail in the town of Dera Ismail Khan began with several explosions at around midnight on Monday. Gunmen then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns, police chief Sohail […]
Prologue For the Muslim viewers, I suggest three verses of the Holy Quran to be kept in mind as they watch this debate: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Berbice, Guyana, South America held its very first Regional Jalsa Salana on May 26th, 2013. The convention was held at the New Amsterdam, Town Hall, […]