Violence against women worldwide is ‘epidemic’
Epigraph: And when people are brought together, as if they are a part of a family. And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’ And when […]
Deobandi and Wahhabi radicalism is a larger issue than terrorism
Source: LUBP by Ayesha Siddiqa The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. and was a media consultant for NAB from 2011 to 2012 The terrorist attack on the residency in Ziarat, Balochistan, where Muhammad Ali Jinnah spent the last days of his life has created […]
Child labor jars with Islamic tradition
Source: Asia Times: By Ramzy Baroud In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on […]
Taliban hints at Afghan power-sharing
Source: Asia Times By Abubakar Siddique The Taliban have expressed their readiness to share power in Afghanistan a day after the hardline Islamic group opened a political office in Qatar. Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Qatar office, told RFE/RL that the Taliban want to have an inclusive Afghan government. […]
THE TERROR DIASPORA US spreads blowback nightmare
Source: Asia Times: By Nick Turse The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of US Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulf … of Guinea. Never mind that most Americans couldn’t find it on a map and haven’t heard of […]
The journey to documenting Abdus Salam
Source: ET Film-makers Zakir Thaver and Omar Vandal express their love for science through a documentary on Mohammad Abdus Salam. DESIGN: ABEERA KHAN / FAHAD NAVEED LAHORE: It was during a casual conversation over a meal that film-makers Zakir Thaver and Omar Vandal came up with the idea of making a […]
Read the Holy Qur’an – Message to Mankind from the Lord Almighty – In German
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Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia distributed fruit to the immigrants, provided by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Jamaat (Malta)
Source: timesofmalta.com There cannot be a common refugee policy in the EU unless all states acknowledge that some immigrants have to be relocated to other member states, Home Affairs Minister Manuel […]
Pakistani using Canadian-made tools to censor websites
The Toronto Star, Rick Westhead, June 20, 2013 A Toronto research group has found evidence that a Canadian firm is providing Internet surveillance and censorship technology to Pakistan. In a report to be released Thursday, The Citizen Lab Internet research group, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at […]
Bethlehem Unveils World’s Largest Oil Painting
PNN: The activities of unveiling the World’s largest oil painting by the Palestinian artist Dr. Jamal Badwan, launched Thursday morning in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. The painting is […]
Israel will be the first digital state
The Jerusalem Post: Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation, Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Chambers agreed earlier in the […]
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women Signed 18 December 1979 Location New York City Effective 3 September 1981 Condition 20 […]
Video: Religious Teachings about Domestic Violence and Honor Killing
The Muslim speaker, Shanaz Tejani-Butt PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, starts speaking at 48.3 minute mark. Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and […]
Liberal Christianity: That Conservatives Like to Call a Heresy
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Heresy is not a new phenomenon. It has existed for 20 centuries in Christianity. What is different though is the fact that the Heretics cannot be killed any more and so do not go away! Often the “Heretics,” make more sense than the “Orthodox,” especially […]
Naya Pakistan?: PTI MNA calls for Mumtaz Qadri’s release
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA called for the release of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the man who gunned down Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in 2011. PTI MNA from Mardan, Mujahid Ali Khan made the demand during a debate on the budget in the National Assembly. Khan had won the […]
Religious fundamentalism could soon be treated as mental illness
Source: Digital Journal By John Thomas Didymus. The moral-ethical dimension arises from the predictable tendency when acting on the problem, armed with a new technology, to apply to the label […]
Hijab Legal Wars
The Muslim Times’ comment: We have modified the title of the news post Source: The Huffington Post Abercrombie Struggling To Prove Fired Woman’s Hijab Hurt Sales: Report Abercrombie & Fitch […]
8,000 workers deployed to prepare for Ramadan at two holy mosques
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 20 June 2013 Over 8,000 men and women workers have been deployed to prepare for Ramadan at the two holy mosques, said Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, […]
Jordan: Saudi Arabia reduces Hajj pilgrim quota
Petra | Jun 19, 2013 | AMMAN — Saudi Arabia has reduced by 20 per cent the number of pilgrims from Muslim countries who will be allowed to perform the Hajj (the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) this year, in light of expansion work taking place at the Grand Mosque […]
BANK DEAL DEAD: Swiss parliament kills divisive US tax bill
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch June 19, 2013 – 17:42 Parliament has thrown out a draft law enabling Swiss banks to hand over confidential data to the United States for cracking down on suspected tax cheats. However, it called on the cabinet to find legal means to resolve the standoff. For […]