Ultra-Orthodox Jews Blur Women With Modesty Glasses
JERUSALEM — It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women […]
New Mauritius Hotels Expects Trading Conditions To Worsen
New Mauritius Hotels Ltd. (NMH), the Indian Ocean island nation’s biggest leisure operator by market value, said its loss widened in the third quarter and expects trading conditions to worsen. The loss increased 33 percent to 177 million rupees ($6 million) in the three months through June from the previous […]
Girl accuses father of waterboarding her
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&contentId=bestoftv/2012/08/09/nr-doctor-dad-accused-of-waterboarding.cnn (CNN) — A Delaware doctor and his wife were arrested this week after their daughter told authorities that she was punished by “waterboarding,” police said. The 11-year-old girl told police that her father, pediatrician Melvin Morse, would hold her face under a running faucet causing the water to shoot […]
Pakistan All set to celebrate Minorities Day: Paul Bhatii
Source: Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD – Minister Incharge for National Harmony Dr. Paul Bhatti has said that arrangements have been finalized to mark Minorities’ Day officially here on Thursday (August 9). He said three to four hundred people of different faiths including parliamentarians, diplomats, religious leaders and general public would participate in the […]
Replace circumcision with symbolic ritual, says Norwegian children’s watchdog
Haaretz: Circumcising boys violates their right to decide over their own body, says children’s watchdog Dr. Anne Lindboe. Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual. Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcising boys […]
Proposal: Jews, Muslims to Split Temple Mount Prayer
MK proposes setting aside time for Jews to pray on Temple Mount, allowing religious freedom without security risk. MK Aryeh Eldad (Ichud Leumi) believes he has found a way for […]
Two faiths, one God
“Islam is the perfect religion for Muslims. Christianity is the perfect religion for Christians. Judaism is the perfect religion for Jews,” said Rabbi Jim Mirel at “Two Faiths, One God,” […]
Die Broke — on Purpose: An Unconventional Retirement Plan
Source: Daily Finance This will probably come as a shocker to most people: Three economists from leading universities have found that “a substantial fraction of persons die with virtually no financial assets — 46.1% with less than $10,000 — and many of these households also have no housing wealth and […]
Religious freedom office in final set-up stages: Government
Mr. Baird has sought input from the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya community, the Aga Khan, a Holy See representative, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, and the US religious freedoms […]
French military sends mobile medical unit to Syrian border amid new refugee influx
By Associated Press, PARIS — A team of French military doctors headed to the Syria-Jordan border on Thursday to set up a mobile hospital to treat refugees fleeing Syrian violence by the thousands. The medics aim to be operative by the end of the week and to perform up to […]
Miraj physical or spiritual important perspective
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page In the month of Ramadan Muslims around the world struggle to deal with the Miraj – the accession to heaven by the Holy Prophet of Islam that to us Ahmadi Muslim is pretty clear was […]
CIA secret army seeks destruction of Syria: American author
An American author and historian says the secret army of the CIA has a goal of destroying the Syrian state, Press TV reports. “It’s a secret army of the CIA if you will and the goal… is to destroy the Syrian state,” said Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley in an interview […]
Iftikhar Chaudhry: The Chief of Injustice!
Credit: LUBP Iftikhar Chaudhry has distorted the very concept of democracy by ousting a prime minister from his office. This is similar to what armed forces do when they bring in a coup. If an intellectually weak person is given unrestricted power, he or she can wreak havoc of the […]
Israel hampers diplomacy on Iran
By Richard Javad Heydarian Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. As hopes for a speedy resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis fade, potentially postponed until the conclusion of upcoming American presidential […]
Quotable: “As long as countries wave checkbooks over our heads, we cannot be equal.”
Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rwanda. Quoted by DEVEX
FIJI NEWS – New Fiji constitution submission hears return to 1997
SDL submission wants return of 1997 constitution Publish date/time: 08/08/2012 [17:05] Print this page Email this page Reinstate the Great Council of Chiefs, bring back the 1997 constitution with amendments, Fiji to be a Christian state and the name Fijian should only be for the i-taukei. These were the main […]
Russia: Underground sect charged with abuse
Russia: Underground sect charged with abuse By MANSUR MIROVALEV, Associated Press – 18 hours ago https://plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Farticle%2FALeqM5jmZlwuTNu5DA-WlymUiYAPesNQEA%3FdocId%3Dea63df5bdf1d48b8a33bac8bcf59d427&size=small&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&hl=en&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fabc-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DQjqA6j1hPhE.en.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!y-LKr2sJxIeZAIaJUQ%2Fd%3D1#id=I1_1344517230601&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&rpctoken=365898527&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart MOSCOW (AP) — A self-proclaimed prophet had a vision from God: He would build an Islamic caliphate under the earth. The digging began about a decade ago and 70 followers soon moved into an eight-level subterranean […]
Russia’s radical Islam raises tension and updates
Radical Islam raises tension in Russia’s Tatarstan By Olga IvshinaBBCRussian.com, Kazan Friends of the murdered cleric Valiulla Yakupov vowed to continue the struggle against Islamist militants Continue reading the main story Related Stories Arrests in Russian Muslim probe Russia country profile Tatarstan’s pragmatic IslamWatch There are signs that radical Islam […]
Muslim Women’s group hosts Quran exhibition, Burmington
Muslim women’s group hosts Qur’an exhibition The holy book of the Islamic religion will be on display at the main city library. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association of Burlington is hosting The Holy Qur’an Exhibition on Saturday, Aug. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Centennial Hall at […]
Pakistani Taliban threaten to kill Imran Khan: Not Muslim Enough?
Guardian: The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to kill Imran Khan if the cricket player turned politician holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold to protest against US drone attacks. Although the Pakistani Taliban […]