King Henry’s Wives and Family Values: Catherine of Aragon
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Epigraph: “O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom […]
It’s the End of the World……….
Source: The daily Beast: It might seem improbable that ancient stories could teach us about modern problems like global warming. But contemporary schemes to arrest global warming by geoengineering the earth’s atmosphere often contain echoes of classical myth. First there’s Phaëton, who drives the sun’s chariot across the sky for one day, loses […]
Radical Islam is the Problem – Moderate Islam is the Solution.
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have changed the title. By Daniel Pipes – Published May 14, 2013 – FoxNews.com We who focus on Islamism see World War II and the […]
US: Suburban poverty soars
Source: CNN Money By Tami Luhby Poverty is growing faster in the suburbs than anywhere else in the United States, soaring 64% over the past decade. That was more than twice the growth rate of the urban poor population, according to the Brookings Institution, which released a book Monday titled […]
Three Hifazat leaders remanded
Source: BDNews 24 A Dhaka court has remanded three Hifazat-e Islam activists for four days to police custody in two cases filed over the May 5 violence in capital Dhaka’s Motijheel. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Erfanullah also rejected bail petitions of the detainees on Monday. Police on Sunday detained Hifazat’s […]
Police Terminates Investigation Into Attack on Ahmadiyah in E. Java
By Camelia Pasandaran, The Jakarta Globe: Police have halted an investigation into last week’s attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, citing an agreement by the victims to […]
Twenty Ahmadis Supposedly embrace Sunni Islam in West Java
The Jakarta Globe: About 20 members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect in Tasikmalaya, West Java, supposedly embraced Sunni Islam on Monday and declared their devotion to Indonesia’s most popular religious […]
Islam:Children are born believers in God, Academic claims
Telegraph: Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being […]
It’s Time for a New New Testament
Epigraph: “Indeed, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation (the Quran), and most surely We will be its Guardian.” (Al Quran 15:10) Source: The Huffington Post By Hal Taussig: Author, […]
The Link Between Islamophobes And Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik?
the electronic intifida: Peder Egenaes. (Berit Roald / AFP/Getty Images) Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamophobes who inspired mass killer Anders Breivik by Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, New York City 14 May […]
TED Talk: What the Western World Can Learn from the Prophet Muhammad: Haroon Moghul
Youtube: TED Talks by Haroon Moghul: The Huge Overlapp between the Idea of America and the Idea of Islam Watch in Youtube.
For the record: Woman climber makes Pakistan proud- climbs Everest
ISLAMABAD / GILGIT-BALTISTAN: Two young siblings achieved rare mountaineering glory for themselves on Saturday by becoming the first Pakistani woman and only the third Pakistani man to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Through their feats, 21-year-old Samina Baig and her 29-year-old brother Mirza Ali ensured that […]
برطانوی پولیس نے الطاف حسین کو گھر میں ’نظر بند‘ کردیا
لندن ( مرزا نعیم الرحمان سے ) میٹروپولیٹن پولیس نے متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کے قائدالطاف حسین کی موومنٹ محدود کردی ہے ۔ ذمہ دار ذرائع کے مطابق برطانوی پولیس […]
Exile and the Prophetic: Joseph Massad strikes again
by Marc H. Ellis on May 17, 2013 Joseph Massad is at it again. He never seems to go away. Good for him! Massad is a Jordanian-born, Palestinian and a professor at Columbia University. He gained notoriety in a tenure battle that featured a ferocious below the belt campaign against […]
Why Westerners are joing the Jihad?
Africa’s ‘Arc of Instability’ From Markham to Mogadishu and London to Nouakchott: A Toronto Star investigation into Africa’s “Arc of Instability” and why westerners are joining the jihad. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent. Double agents within Al Shabab had warned Somalia’s security services that something spectacular […]
‘A Military Solution Won’t Yield Lasting Peace in Syria’
Source: Spiegel In a SPIEGEL interview, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, 51, discusses the search for a political solution to the Syrian civil war, controversial German arms exports and how his family’s experiences in World War II inform his positions today. More:
Merkel policy like Nazi invasion
Source: The Local. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn deepened diplomatic tensions with Germany after comparing the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Nazi military invasion of his country ordered by Adolf Hitler. More:
Police warn against high-tech Islamist attacks
Source:The Local. The Federal Criminal Police Office is warning of a new type of Islamist terrorist threat from the air that could attack both passenger and cargo planes as well as airport facilities, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported. More:
US denies Christian homeschoolers asylum
Source: The Local An American appeals court has denied a fundamentalist Christian family from Germany the right to asylum in the US. The family claimed they were being persecuted for not being allowed to homeschool their children. More:
Hanging Gardens Of Babylon Discovered 300 Miles Away In Nineveh May 6, 2013
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have long been regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, although not without […]