Huff Post: Lauren Markoe. WASHINGTON (RNS) It’s an idea that feels particularly poignant this Thanksgiving: American Jews and Muslims banding together to help the homeless and other needy people. The interfaith collaboration has been going on for five years, but the recent exchange of rockets between Gaza and Israel is […]
Daily Times: D Asghar. Our problem is that most of us Muslims see the issue of the Palestine-Israel conflict as a purely religious issue. We often ignore that this is a territorial conflict When I came to the US, and went for the Friday prayers, I use to cringe at […]
Pope Benedict: Jewish people not guilty for Jesus death Editor’s Comments: This is a republication of an old news from BBC, from 2011. We applaud Pope Benedict’s just and reasonable stance about […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com Agencies and DAWN.COM | 5 hours ago People run away after a blast in Karachi on Wednesday. – Photo by AP ISLAMABAD: A suicide attack […]
Prof John Moffat (80), professor emeritus University of Toronto, is a former student of Dr Abdus Salam. He did his Ph.D under Dr. Salam in 1959 in Cambridge. He has written a book Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics. There is a chapter on Dr. Abdus Salam in the book, where he is described as […]
Source: ABC News / Yahoo News By COLLEEN CURRY The rockets and missiles fell silent over Gaza for the first time in eight days today, but gunfire erupted in the crowded streets […]
November 21, 2012 Yesterday, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Canada conducted a very successful symposium in Roy Thomson Hall, in downtown Toronto, attended by 2000 non-Muslims or n0n-Ahmadi Muslims. The function was […]
Over the last half-decade, as federal authorities secured dozens of insider trading convictions against hedge fund traders, they have tried doggedly to build a case against one of Wall Street’s most influential players: the billionaire stock picker Steven A. Cohen. On Tuesday, the government appeared to inch closer to that […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar On the face of it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a perfect hit by launching the assault on Gaza. The score sheet for the weeklong operation codenamed “Operation Pillar of Defense” may seem to stand at 10 out of 10. More:
Russian TV: The Grand Mufti of Russia Ravil Gainutdin has categorically denied allegations that the country is “the number one enemy” of Islam and Muslims. The allegation was made by Sheikh […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Pakistan has puts its newly secured trade concessions package with the European Union in jeopardy by breaking a four-year moratorium on the death penalty with the execution of a former army serviceman. More:
Dubai: In the presence of scores of senior officials and prominent international figures from around the world, the international centre for inter-religious dialogue will be opened in Vienna next Monday. Read more
Dawn: Credit Rueters: ISLAMABAD: A new British-based Islamic group plans to meet in Islamabad to issue a religious decree against a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Pakistani Taliban, accusing her of supporting “occupying” US forces. The move against Malala Yousufzai, 15, is likely to provoke outrage. In the days following […]
Source: ET A screen grab from the movie 2012 based on the Mayan calendar. PHOTO: PUBLICITY MEXICO CITY: Relax doomsayers, the Maya people did not really mark their calendar for the end of the world on December 21, 2012. As tourists book hotels rooms in Mexico’s Maya Riviera and Guatemalan resorts […]
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald AS MIDDLE East leaders work with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker a ceasefire agreement acceptable to both Israel and Hamas, United Nations ambassadors in New York said the Security Council would hold an open debate on the […]
By Yusuf Walker Pardon me if I have not been myself recently, but I have been racked with inner grief at the plight of the oh so poor Israel. Every day they are terrorized by the glorified fireworks being fired at them from Palestine. To have to bear the noise […]
One day, it happened that someone said something to someone, who said something to someone else, who somehow formed the impression I was an important person. The result of this […]
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ajmal-Kasab-hanged-and-buried-in-Punes-Yerwada-Jail/articleshow/17303820.cms? TNN | Nov 21, 2012, 08.22 AM IST NEW DELHI: In a secret operation, LeT terrorist and 26/11 attacks accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in the high-security Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7:30am today after a four-year-long trial. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said he was […]
CAIRO: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he feared that the militarization of the conflict in Syria could turn the country into a “regional battleground.” “We are deeply concerned […]
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s central government and the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region have each sent troops to reinforce their internal border as tension builds between them in a feud over land and oil. The second military build-up this year illustrates how far relations between Baghdad’s Arab-led central government and ethnic Kurds […]