Clashes between TTP, Ansarul Islam enter day four DAWN.COM and Zahir Shah Sherazi | 8 hours ago 0 The image shows militants. — Photo by Reuters/File LANDI KOTAL: The clashes between Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Ansarul Islam (AI) militant groups in Khyber tribal region’s Tirah valley area entered their fourth day as the […]
Nasruddin rode his little grey donkey, Karakacan, sitting backward as usual, facing his students. As he was about to make a point, suddenly there was a series of loud pops […]
Russian TV: US Federal Reserve is reporting a major deposit withdrawal from the nation’s bank accounts. The financial system has not seen such a massive fund outflow since 9/11 attacks. The first week of January 2013 has seen $114 billion withdrawn from 25 of the US’ biggest banks, pushing deposits […]
Russian TV: Israel is using lethal force on unarmed Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, according to the latest report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. It says 56 people were killed in the clashes, with an average age of 18. In the 31-page report, B’Tselem accused Israeli security […]
Source: BD News 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Bangladesh was pursuing a foreign policy with the principle of being ‘friend of all, and enmity with none’. She told the visiting delegation of the US House of Representatives that 5,409 elections had taken place under her government without […]
By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus […]
>The 17th edition of Fajr International Poetry Festival has announced the list of jury members selected for different sections of the event. The selected jurors are slated to judge at […]
A group of the Jerusalem-based Beitar fans have lashed out at the club’s boss’s decision to bring two Muslims from the Russian Chechen republic into the squad. At the latest […]
A Polish investigation into secret CIA jails is being suppressed because it will embarrass the top echelon of the country’s government, lawyers of two men held illegally in one of […]
by Areej Abuqudairi JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — An international human rights group has called on the government to amend the Citizenship Law, which prohibits Jordanian women married to foreigners from passing on citizenship to their spouses and children. In a report published earlier this month, the London-based group Equality Now […]
AMMAN — JORDAN TIMES. Iran on Sunday praised Jordan’s position regarding the Syrian crisis as rational and logical. Speaking at a press conference at the Iranian embassy in Amman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian commended the Kingdom’s calls for a political and peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, noting […]
In these days of Sunni – Shiah tension we should all study a bit more both the historical and present day reasons for the Sunni – Shiah ‘split’. I have therefore taken the liberty to draw your attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi’a%E2%80%93Sunni_relations and encourage all readers of The Muslim Times to study […]
Huff Post: Catherine Hochman. Maybe religion is the result of our neurons firing chemical signals at one another. Maybe it is a mistake caused by natural selection. Or maybe it is the by-product of society’s effort to impose authority. On the other hand, maybe not. Has science explained religion […]
Huff Post: Lesley Hazleton. Everyone knows his name. He was, and still is, one of the most influential figures of all time, yet most of us have little real sense […]
Epigraph The Romans have been defeated, In the land nearby, and they, after their defeat, will be victorious. In a few years — Allah’s is the command before and after […]
Peter Worthington, The Toronto Sun Moderate Muslims show courage speaking out against extremists TORONTO – It’s somewhat misleading to compare Farzana Hassan to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the extraordinary woman from Somalia who fled to escape an arranged marriage to a Toronto man, and became an MP in Holland and a […]
Religious affairs office tells schools to close for refusing to provide Islamic teaching to their Muslim children Blitar, NU Online: The Religious Affairs Ministry’s office in Blitar, East Java, has […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission January 25, 2013 (Hong Kong, 25 January 2013) The Supreme Court of Pakistan, in its effort to gain popularity […]
Syria has called on those of its citizens who have left the country due to the unrest that began nearly two years ago to return home. The Syrian Interior Ministry […]
A new survey suggests that the majority of individuals in Turkey believe the government should abandon efforts for a full membership in the European Union. The poll, conducted by TNS […]