Royal Court: Eid Al-Fitr falls on Sunday
Friday 17 August 2012 ARABNEWS Makkah: The Royal Court issued the following statement: ‘According to the two Royal Orders No. 7311/MB dated 24/9/1429 H. and No. 6605/B dated 15/6/1430 H. […]
Ramadan 2012 in Photos as Interpreted by The Atlantic
Source: The Atlantic Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, will come to a close this weekend…Throughout this ninth month on the Islamic calendar, devout Muslims must abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn until sunset. The fast, one of the five pillars of Islam, is seen as a time […]
MDGs: Commonwealth Education Ministers To Meet In Mauritius
Commonwealth education ministers will meet in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 29 to 31 August 2012 to discuss priorities for the next three years and the Commonwealth’s contribution to the post-2015 development goals framework. Under the theme ‘Education in the Commonwealth: bridging the gap as we accelerate towards achieving internationally […]
U.S. Reliance on Saudi Oil Heads Back Up
HOUSTON — The United States is increasing its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia, raising its imports from the kingdom by more than 20 percent this year, even as fears of military conflict in the tinderbox Persian Gulf region grow. The increase in Saudi oil exports to the United States […]
Immigration in Germany – Young Turks Increasingly Favor Integration and Religion
Hardly a year goes by in Germany without a shrill debate on immigration and Islam. Despite the public hand-wringing, however, those in the country with a Turkish background are increasingly […]
But, where is everybody?
Credit: TOI If it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space – Carl Sagan In May 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues were walking down for lunch from their lab at Los Alamos when they got to discussing flying saucers because there had been […]
Live: Muslim Times Moon-sighting Committee (i.e. Ruet-e-Hilal)
When is Eid? Saturday? Sunday? or Monday? Refresh this page after Iftar to find out. Editors of the Muslim Times from across the globe will update this page as news […]
Dutch Eritreans forced to pay ‘war tax’
The Eritrean Consulate in The Hague has been extorting money from Eritreans in the Netherlands for almost twenty years. A report in Dutch daily de Volkskant claims people are being forced to hand over two percent of their monthly income to support the regime of President Issayas Afewerki. According to de Volkskrant, those […]
Islam as a Progressive Force
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide In the United States, freedom of expression is a fundamental right, guaranteed by the constitution. That’s great, of course, but when everyone’s free to speak their […]
Dutch and Moroccan colleagues in Mars mission
Millions of people around the world are following the progress of NASA’s Curiosity rover since it landed on Mars last week. Years of hard work and cooperation were needed to ensure that the roving laboratory, the size of a compact car, would survive undamaged both the 566 million kilometre journey […]
UN leader ‘appalled’ by Mansehra sectarian killing
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: August 17, 2012 UNITED NATIONS: UN leader Ban Ki-moon was “appalled” by the sectarian killing of 20 Shias who […]
Julian Assange: Ecuador asylum decision criticised
Credit: BBC The UK and Sweden have criticised Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange as the diplomatic row over what to do with him intensifies. The Wikileaks founder took refuge at Ecuador’s London embassy in June as he faced extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he […]
UN monitors quit, saying Syrians choose “path of war“
Reuters Friday 17 August 2012 BEIRUT/ALEPPO: Syria’s government and rebels have “chosen the path of war,” a UN peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict. Two weeks after former UN […]
Anger Over Mine Massacre in South Africa
Credit:Allafrica.com Police have shot dead more than 30 striking miners after a series of violent protests at one of the world’s largest platinum-producing mines. More:
King voices Jordan’s rejection of Israeli attempts to Judaise Jerusalem
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday asserted Jordan’s rejection of Israel’s “repeated attempts to Judaise the history and heritage of the Holy City of Jerusalem” as well as […]
China treating Barack Obama as a doormat: Paul Ryan
Credit:TOI WASHINGTON: Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has accused President Barack Obama of allowing China to treat him like a “doormat” and failing to stop its economic cheating. “They (China) steal our intellectual property rights. They block access to their markets. They manipulate their currency. President Obama promised he would […]
What Potatoes Say about the State of US Democracy?
The debate in the US Congress last winter over whether potatoes should be curbed in school lunches is emblematic of the modern-day crisis in US governance. Lobbyists and other powerful interest groups dominate the tenor of the debate. Unsurprisingly, most Americans have lost confidence in their leaders. More:
Israel preparing to attack Iran: Report
Credit: TOI LONDON: Israel is preparing for a ground attack on Iran before Christmas, after conducting commando dry runs in the Iraq desert, a media report said. Top military officials in Tel Aviv believe they have until the end of the year to strike at Iran’s nuclear programme, The Sun […]
The sad story of an IT powerhouse called Bangalore
Credit: TOI Students of northeast coming out after the community leaders having peace talk at Jasma Mandir Austin Town, in Bangalore on August 16, 2012. (TOI photo) If you decide to move to Bangalore, you should ask the state’s political bosses a few questions. 1. Will you welcome me even […]
A Saudi overture to Iran
Credit: Asia Times: The US conclusion that the recent summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation delivered a “strong signal” to Syria missed the point. As always in Muslim politics, the subtext of the conference – the increasing threat of sectarian rivalry to the Middle Eastern regimes – was more […]