When Sherlock Holmes was Taken for a Ride
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fell for the childish hoax of the Cottingley Fairies. I am borrowing the details of […]
Syrian Businesses Take Refuge in Jordan As War Ravages Aleppo
The Media Line Staff Amman, Jordan (Adam Nicky The Media Lin – Street noises mix with a call to prayer coming from the King Hussein Mosque in downtown Amman, the city’s commercial center, while on a nearby street corner, Issam, a Syrian businessman, calmly answers a steady flow of phone […]
Vast Mysterious Ribbon At Edge Of The Solar System Finally Explained?
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Physicists say they are closer than ever to understanding a vast mysterious ribbon of particles at the edge of the Solar System. Nasa’s […]
Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Summit: Muslim Leaders Divided On Syria, Mali Crises Solution
By HAMZA HENDAWI HUFFINGTON POST CAIRO — Egypt’s presidential spokesman says an end to Syrian crisis is a condition to restore relations with Iran and that his country supports the […]
All Religious Reformers Day Conference at 37th International Kolkata Book Fair, India
Kolkata (West Bengal, India): At present the whole world is involved in religious conflict. At some places people are dissenting against their government and in some places the authorities are […]
Chinese Premier Wen wishes Islamic summit a success
Source: China Daily CAIRO – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sent a congratulatory message to the 12th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference upon its opening on Wednesday in Cairo, Egypt. […]
Imams visit Holocaust site to show tolerant Islam – Muslim leaders from all over France gather at Drancy memorial, site of former detention camp
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 DRANCY, France (AP) — Dozens of French imams have visited a Holocaust memorial in Drancy in an effort to show that Islam is a tolerant religion. […]
Suicide attack against Syria intel building in Palmyra: NGO
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Wednesday 6 February 2013 BEIRUT: A suicide bomber on Wednesday attacked a military intelligence headquarters in the south-central Syria city of Palmyra, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “A powerful explosion rocked Palmyra this morning and according […]
Abbas hopes Obama visit will usher new US policy: spokesman
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Wednesday 6 February 2013 RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinian presidency hopes US President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit will mark the beginning of a new US policy in […]
Invitations for the Zonal Conference & Peace Symposium Chennai, India
Assalamualaikum Warehmatullah-e-Wabarakatahu, I cordially invite you to the Zonal Conference and Peace Symposium to be Held at Chennai on the 10th of February. Guest speakers from various religions are attending […]
Paris women finally allowed to wear trousers – Would Hijab be allowed Next?
Editor’s note: The title of the news is modified by the Muslim Times Source: BBC The French government has overturned a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers. The Minister of Women’s Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said that the ban was incompatible with modern French values and laws. She said the law, […]
Breaking News: Shoe thrown at Iranian President in Cairo Egypt
Source: TOI Details still emerging. Any one can update.
German Federal Education Minister Schavan won’t resign, fights for doctorate
Source: The Local Education Minister Annette Schavan has defied those calling for her resignation after her old university withdrew her doctorate for plagiarism. She said she would challenge the decision. The Local’s media roundup looks at the reaction. More:
The sound of Munich
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The (geopolitical) hills are alive with the sound of … well, not music; rather that post-industrial noise, more Kraftwerk than Schubert, oozing from the recently completed 49th edition of the Munich Security Conference. Who wouldn’t give a Goldman Sachs bonus to be briefed on […]
Health Insurance Companies Get in Shape for 2014
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Since Patrick J. Geraghty arrived here a year and a half ago to lead the state’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, he has expanded its operations in Medicare and Medicaid, entered arrangements with hospitals and doctors, bought a medical group, and dabbled with a new private sector […]
Government of Pakistan to get the interior minister mentally checked!
Source ET A file photo of interior minister Rehman Malik. PHOTO: PID / FILE KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minority MPA Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved an adjournment motion in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday against interior minister Rehman Malik, who reportedly declared non-Muslims as terrorists. Khokhar said that Malik had […]
CIA operating drone base in Saudi Arabia, US media reveal
Source: BBC The US Central Intelligence Agency has been operating a secret airbase for unmanned drones in Saudi Arabia for the past two years. The facility was established to hunt for members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen. A drone flown from there was used […]
Islam in France: An Omen of things to Come?
Collected by Dr. Zia H Shah and Dr. Falak Rehman Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could […]
Islam in France
Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?” (Alphonse de Lamartine, Foreign Minister of France in 1849) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Grande Mosquée in Paris. […]
Video: Ahmadyya Muslims Scientists (AMRA) members on BBC Evolution Debate
thebeerrevelation: On the 13th of January 2012 a group of young Ahmadi Muslim scientists appeared on the BBC discussion programme “The Big Questions,” to try and give a voice to […]