Source: The Edmonton Journal By Humda Malik, Edmonton Journal August 13, 2012 This is my country!” the man blurted as he butted ahead of me in line while I waited to pay for groceries. Let me set the scene. I was in Walmart with my screaming toddler and my insistent […]
Huff Post: Kathlene K. Duff. (Kathleen K. Duff serves on the Diocese of Albany’s Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. She is a campus minister at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School […]
RT: British and German spy intelligence on Syrian government troop movement has been shared with rebels to aid attacks on pro-Assad forces, UK and German newspapers revealed on Sunday. An unnamed Syrian opposition official admitted that British intelligence is covertly aiding antigovernment forces in Syria, UK weekly newspaper the Sunday […]
Business Insider: If you enjoy peering inside the minds of the world’s super rich, take a spin through the 2012 “Wealth Report.” Compiled by Citibank, and a property consultancy called Knight Frank, it’s a lengthy analysis based partly on interviews with the super rich. (Definition: people with more than $25 million […]
By Brittney R. Villalva , Christian Post Reporter The Christian Post Bret Michaels has called off his engagement to Kristi Gibson after an 18-year relationship. Poison front man and reality star Bret Michaels has called off his engagement from Kristi Gibson after proposing to her nearly two years ago in […]
BY AMINA JUMA, 19 AUGUST 2012 Morogoro — AHMADIYYA Muslims Community in Morogoro Region has assured the Government in the Region that their followers will participate in the National Census, which is expected to take off on August 26, this year. Morogoro Regional Ahmadiyya Muslims Community Sheikh Asif Butt said […]
Today is the first day of Eid Al-Fitr—a three-day celebration that follows the month of Ramadan during which Muslims fast during the day. Recently several factors made American Muslims nervous and fearful. Eid is a good time for the society to make Muslims feel at home in America. In Western […]
When Tunisia’s National Constitutional Assembly published the new draft constitution, a storm broke out over its words about women. It read: “The State guaranties the protection of women rights and the promotion of their gains, as a real partner of men in the mission of the homeland building, and the […]
Fair CEC, unfair polls byKunwar Idrees The appointment of Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has raised widespread hope that the next elections will be fair. The chief contenders […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Qaiser Zulfiqar Published: August 19, 2012 ISLAMABAD: An 11-year-old Christian girl, suffering from Down’s Syndrome, was arrested on […]
(Reuters) – Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s drive to restore order to Yemen after last year’s uprising against his predecessor risks being bogged down in a prolonged war with al Qaeda unless he moves […]
Source: CNN Author: Eboo Patel Paul Ryan has set off joyous cheers in the land of conservatives largely because of his fiscal views but also because of his Catholic faith. He is just the most recent member of his church – think House Speaker John Boehner, […]
Russian TV: Russia’s Muslims are celebrating a major religious holiday, Uraza Bayram, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Celebrations are taking place in the capital’s four mosques, […]
Credit.Dr. Mohammad Dawood Majoka. On 30 May 2012, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, visited the “Leadership Center” of the German Federal Army in Koblenz. In addition to representatives of the local bodies of army and police, and representatives of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
Credit: Allafrica. Com Photo: Ryan Youngblood A mother and her sick child at a community health centre in Freetown (file photo). Freetown/Conakry/Accra/Dakar — Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. […]
Credit. Jakarta Globe Beirut. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, in his first appearance in public since a July bombing in the Syrian capital that killed four top security officials. Assad, who is battling a 17-month-old uprising, was accompanied by […]
Source: ET Journalists express concern over difficulty of working in South Asia. BERLIN: At a time when freedom of expression appears to be in jeopardy in South Asia, a gathering of German media men was shocked to learn that atleast six of the 33 journalists killed worldwide this year lost their […]
SARAJEVO — In Bosnia, one of a handful of European countries with a Muslim majority population, Smail “Smajo” Krivic keeps a once-banned tradition alive during the holy month of Ramadan. […]