Credit: Newyorker via Wasim Sroya In the south of Pakistan, where Hindus have lately been kidnapped for ransom and their daughters forcibly converted to Islam, Hindu families have started fleeing to India in trains. As they waved to their relatives from train windows, possibly for the last time, many Hindu […]
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Spate of attacks near Ramadan trouble U.S. Muslims By Yasmin Amer and Moni Basu, CNN updated 6:30 PM EDT, Sat August 18, 2012 The ruins of a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, smolder after a fire on August 6. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Attacks on Islamic centers spiked across America during the holy month of Ramadan […]
Egypt President To Visit Iran, A First In Decades by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS text size A A A CAIRO August 18, 2012, 05:18 pm ET CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader […]
Filipino Muslims organise four-hour Islamic quiz bee Ramona Ruiz Aug 19, 2012 Save this article https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&size=medium&count=false&callback=plusoneCallback&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fuae-news%2Ffilipino-muslims-organise-four-hour-islamic-quiz-bee&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DI5V0PLgEMWQ.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!YLz4zcRjznaA2Lb5GQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOZFeBWoUW9R3WD-JeCrvEkHSfOUQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1345348006939&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D10%23cb%3Df306bea97%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thenational.ae%252Ffc44835%26domain%3Dwww.thenational.ae%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fuae-news%2Ffilipino-muslims-organise-four-hour-islamic-quiz-bee&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=130 DUBAI // Abdullah Puentespina will have new clothes and gifts and is also excited about his prospects in a quiz bee this Eid Al Fitr. Topic Eid Al Fitr Islamic holidays http://s0.2mdn.net/2655172/eReader_300x250.swf “I […]
Huff Post: An instruction from the prophet Muhammad is to “eat together, and do not separate, for the blessing is in the company.” After a month of fasting during Ramadan, Muslims will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, a three-day festival with family, friends and food. We asked the HuffPost Religion community what […]
RT: The US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy when carrying cell phones, allowing police to track GPS signals without a warrant or probable cause. The decision came the court ruled in United States v. Skinner that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) abided by the […]
If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before […]
University celebrates graduation Tevita Vuibau Saturday, August 18, 2012 THE University of Fiji celebrated a milestone yesterday when its first batch of law graduateswas admitted to the Bar at the High Court in Suva. In his address to the 12 new lawyers, Chief Justice Anthony Gates said as newcomers to the […]
Around one in five rioters jailed after last year’s summer rampages have been tagged and let out of prison early, it has emerged. Figures released under the Freedom of Information […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Shamsul Islam Published: August 18, 2012 FAISALABAD: A heavy police contingent on Friday, on the demand of a banned organisation, removed […]
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Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I just googled and searched in Encyclopedia Britannica to find the definition of the terms, Jew, Christian, […]
PNN Palestine News Network Canada’s largest Protestant church looks set to vote today, Friday 17th August, to approve a boycott of products made in Israeli settlements. On Wednesday, the United Church of Canada’s General Council supported a resolution to boycott Israeli goods produced in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, […]
Reuters | Aug 17, 2012 | 00:07 Updated: Aug 17, 2012 | 00:07 WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require tens of thousands of ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of […]
Credit: NPR via Wasim Sroya. Courtesy of Geo TVAamir Liaquat, 41, is one of Pakistan’s most famous and controversial TV hosts. During the holy month of Ramadan, he broadcasts live for 11 hours a day while fasting and drawing record audiences. Back in 2008, remarks he made about a religious […]
Charity is not just recommended by Islam, it is required of every financially stable Muslim. Giving charity to those who deserve it is part of Muslim character and one of […]
ALEPPO – A fighter returns to a Free Syrian Army safe house after a shift on the Aleppo frontline, cranks up the volume of the television, lights a cigarette and looks at himself in a broken mirror. “Anyone got hair gel? I look a mess.” Meet Abu Zeid Al Tunsi, […]
MAKKAH/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 August 2012 More than 3 million worshippers offered Juma prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s […]
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