By AFP Singapore Malaysia has been rated the world’s top Muslim-friendly holiday destination in a survey released Wednesday that listed Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Singapore as […]
Source: The Local. Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out sending combat troops to fight Islamist rebels in Mali alongside France, but warned the northern African nation should not be allowed to become a failed state. More:
Source: The Local President Joachim Gauck has called on Germans to see refugees and immigrants as a chance for the country’s future, saying they should be welcomed with open arms as they could help maintain living standards for coming generations. More:
Source: The Independent The European Court of Human Rights gets a regular kicking in the British press, often unfairly. So it’s good to see that the judges in Strasbourg have […]
Huff Post: by Charles Negy: One of the things that has always struck me about many Christians in the United States is the disconnect between their faith in Jesus and their personal behavior. One obvious example that rears its ugly head once a year is the whole enterprise of Christmas […]
Amnesty International: After a decade of insurgency, Pakistan’s Tribal areas remain in a state of crisis. In the Tribal areas, the courts are barred from upholding the fundamental rights protections guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution. This document summarizes the report by Amnesty International which shows that, rather than investigating and prosecuting […]
Epigraph: “Blessed is He (Allah) Who has sent down the Discrimination (the Quran) to His servant (Muhammad), that he may be a Warner to all the worlds.” (Al Quran 25:1) […]
CBCnews: ‘I think it’s probably just a random incident,’ says organization A welcome sign belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been ripped down the middle in Sydney, but the organization says it’s hoping it was a random act. The group discovered the vandalism of their sign, across from the […]
Source: The Hindu In an inspired moment, the street in Alwarpet was named after two giants of the legal field, K. Bhashyam Iyengar and Basheer Ahmed Sayeed Fellow heritage enthusiast and writer, Dr G. Sundaram, wondered as to the origins of Bashyam Basheer Ahmed Street in Alwarpet. Have the signboard […]
Source: Mizzima olar power for off-grid rural populations is to be set up by SPCG Public Company Ltd., The Bangkok Post reported last week. “Electricity supply in Myanmar is falling short of demand that has grown rapidly.” said the Thai energy company’s chairwoman Wandee Khunchornyakong to the newspaper. “The country’s […]
Source: Dawn Author: Murtaza Haider While the Hazaras sat with the coffins of their children who died in targeted bomb attacks on January 10, 2013, millions in Pakistan joined the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Harris Zafar While many celebrated the winter holidays, news broke of the arrest in Saudi Arabia of liberal writer Turki Al Hamad for allegedly insulting […]
CA Muslim Community Makes Political History 28 Muslim Delegates Elected to CA Dem Party By Farrah KhanThis past weekend, California Muslims made political history when 28 Muslim candidates were elected by Democrats as delegates and alternate delegates to the California Democratic Party (CDP). This constitutes the largest number of Muslims […]
by Rita Emch in New York, swissinfo.ch and agencies Jan 15, 2013 – 11:06 More than 50 countries led by Switzerland have called on the United Nations Security Council to refer the Syria crisis to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes genocide and war crimes. “We are firmly of […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Short answer to the ‘when,’ question is as soon as they read this article carefully and share it with […]
Source: BBC By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A pioneering team from IBM in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published […]
The insurgents vow to make conflict ‘worse than Afghanistan’ Thousands of French troops were preparing to join the anti-terrorist war in Mali today as British army chiefs warned against getting sucked […]
Fertility rate among Jewish women in Israel increases while rate in Muslim sector drops, according to demographics report BY Yaron Druckman According to a demographics report released by the Central […]
JERUSALEM — A batch of 1,000-year-old manuscripts from the mountainous northern reaches of war-torn Afghanistan, reportedly found in a cave inhabited by foxes, has revealed previously unknown details about the […]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations, raising fears of a political crisis just months ahead of an election. […]