Source: Faizan Ijaz, Head of Human Resources and Counsel AMJ Germany. Note by the Editor. Readers of Muslim Times were keen to know what Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany will get […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Until now, much of the debate swirling around Obamacare has focused on the cost of premiums in the state-based health insurance exchanges. But what will enrollees actually get for that monthly charge? States are starting to roll out details about the exchanges, providing a look at just […]
Huff Post: by Charles Redfern. Someone picked up scissors and snipped our mentalities. Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like preacher in an empty comedy club. Such imagery comes […]
Credit: Outlookindia.com REZAUL H LASKAR | ISLAMABAD | JUN 13, 2013 Former President Pervez Musharraf was today formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the 2006 killing […]
Epigraph: Blessed is He in whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things. It is He who has created death and life that He might try […]
by Stefania Summermatter and Peter Siegenthaler, swissinfo.ch June 11, 2013 – 11:00 Illegally imprisoned for eight years, three former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have found refuge in […]
STORY SUMMARY Israel is seeking approval for hundreds of settler homes in the northern West Bank settlements of Itamar and Bruchin, Israel media reported on Thursday. The latest moves come […]
The world has grown more hostile in recent years, according to the Global Peace Index. Hopes that we can all just march toward ever-greater peace and equality saw a serious […]
ET: For a journalist, perhaps nothing is a greater violation of human rights than the denial of access to information. In the case of Pakistan versus YouTube, I think the nine-month banon Google’s video-sharing website is really the limit of regressive and, in the eyes of any global citizen who accepts the […]
theguardian: by Michele Catanzaro. There is much evidence that public views on nanotechnology will be shaped by religious beliefs. If synthetic bacon has never been part of a living pig. Is it still forbidden under Islam’s halal laws? In the science fiction short story Halo, a panel of Muslim scholars discuss a […]
CNN: Editor’s note: Ronald Deibert is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he is director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He is author of “Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace” (Signal/McClelland & […]
Amnesty International: Criminal “defamation of religion” charges must be dropped in a number of cases across Egypt, Amnesty International said today after a teacher was convicted for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom. A Luxor court on Tuesday fined Coptic Christian teacher Dimyana Obeid Abd Al Nour […]
Aljazeera: There has been a disturbing increase in anti-Muslim attacks in the UK after the murder of a soldier in May. A number of mosques and Islamic institutions in the […]
Source: BBC The EU’s Justice Commissioner has written to the US attorney general, questioning him about America’s data surveillance programme, Prism. Viviane Reding wrote that she was concerned America’s efforts […]
Source: The Daily Beast. So, it seems there really are gay priests in the upper echelons of the Vatican hierarchy. At least that’s what Pope Francis reportedly told a group of Latin American prelates in a private audience June 6. Pope Francis presides over a meeting at the Vatican on […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the federal budget for the year 2013-2014 in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Express News reported. The first litmus test of the newly sworn-in government began when Dar presented a Rs3.5 trillion federal budget in a bid to revive the country’s ailing economy. Designed […]
Dr Ikram Malik, 75, of Nelson, Lancashire, was on his way to local mosque Clothes became entangled in Vauxhall Astra driven by Caroline Schofield He fell and hit his head […]
Source: Lost Islamic History Much like previous Muslim Empires, the Ottomans showed great toleration and acceptance of non-Muslim communities in their empire. This is based on existing Muslim laws regarding […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com By Craig Considine: Ph.D. candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Film director, ‘Journey into America’; Interfaith activist Cathie Adams, former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, stated recently in her speech “Radical Islam […]
Source: debate.org | Asked by: IslamAhmadiyya #1: The Original Islam, Modernized: Ahmadis consider themselves to be part of the universal religion of Islam. They believe that a man, by the name of Hazrat Mirza […]