US troops synch hi-tech and nomad intel in Kony hunt
By RICHARD LOUGH | REUTERS ARABNEWS OBO, Central African Republic: In a bare concrete room in a far-flung corner of Central African Republic, US special forces and Ugandan soldiers map […]
Imam Malik: A star among scholars
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Malik bin Anas, known as Imam Malik, is a prominent name in Islamic history. He was not only a great scholar of Hadith, but also a jurist after whom was founded one of the four Islamic schools of Islamic jurisprudence: the Maliki school. He was […]
Was There Really a Post-9/11 Backlash Against Muslims?
By Conor Friedersdorf May 4 2012, 3:52 PM ET 19 Several conservative writers are heavily invested in arguing otherwise, but they don’t have the facts on their side. Reuters Over at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin complains that “most of the mainstream media still takes it as a given that there […]
How organic tea transformed a Bangladesh community
Source: The Daily Beast by Alice Feiring | May 7, 2012 1:00 AM EDT To transform the parched, arid Bangladeshi soil into a lush organic tea garden took dung. Tons of it. How to acquire the massive amounts needed was the sticky problem facing Kazi Anis Ahmed, the 41-year-old cofounder […]
Association of Catholic Priests discuss Celibacy
7 May 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET Help An organisation which represents more than 850 priests in Ireland has been meeting to discuss the future direction of the Catholic Church. The Vatican has recently criticised leading members of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) for expressing views which contradict […]
Hollande’s victory: The tortoise who beat the hare
France24. In style and probably in substance, France’s incoming president could not be more different than the country’s outgoing leader. François Hollande’s political rise to the country’s top post has been slow and steady, with the French media portraying him as “Monsieur Normal” – an easygoing, everyday man. Contrast that […]
Goodbye Merkozy – Will new French president François Hollande get along with Angela Merkel?
Rfi. For those who wondered during the campaign whether François Hollande was just talking tough in the hope of winning votes, his victory speech last night made things crystal clear. “Europe is watching us”, he said, declaring that the French vote would give hope to other countries that “austerity is […]
Hillary Clinton Goes to Bangladesh
Source: Daily Beast, WSJ, lA Times and Newsdaily Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is traveling through Bangladesh after a three-day visit to Beijing that was largely overshadowed by the plight of activist Chen Guangcheng. The South Asian country is on edge after the disappearance of opposition leader Ilyas Ali. Clinton […]
Muslim woman wins $5 million verdict from AT&T for discrimination
Source: Reuters By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Fri May 4, 2012 7:57pm EDT KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile […]
How an Election in Greece Could Cause Europe to Crumble
By Yannis Palajologos, The New Republic. Anyone anxiously waiting for the European Union’s death knell could do worse than circle May 6 on his calendar. That’s when Greece, a nation […]
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules
Source: NY Times. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The “like” button on Facebook seems a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that does not mean clicking it is constitutionally protected speech. Exactly what a “like” means — if anything — played a part in a […]
Insight: Time running out for Ally Financial’s restructuring
(Reuters) – In the fall of 2009, the board of GMAC, one of the largest U.S. auto and home-loan companies, gathered in New York to discuss whether to put its troubled mortgage unit into bankruptcy. GMAC, now called Ally Financial, was just about to receive the last of $17 billion […]
Change Europe can believe in?
Credit: Asia Time: By Pepe Escobar Europe may just be living a remix of the late 2008 moment when Barack Obama won the presidency in the United States. But this time, will it be real? The election on Sunday of socialist Francois Hollande as president of France comes at an […]
‘Saudi-backed Wahhabis behind massacre of Shias in Pakistan’
An extremist Wahhabi group, backed by such countries as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, is behind the atrocious massacre of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, a political analyst says. “All these massacres […]
How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
NY Times: There are no secrets online. That emotional e-mail you sent to your ex, the illness you searched for in a fit of hypochondria, those hours spent watching kitten […]
Jedi religion belongs in the star systems of George Lucas’s mind
the guardian Today is Star Wars Day, being May the Fourth. (Say the date slowly, several times.) Around the world, film buffs, storm troopers and Jedi are gathering to celebrate one of the greatest science fiction romps of all time. It would be easy to let the fan boys enjoy […]
Syria holds elections as violence rages
By Mariam Karouny, The Daily Star, Lebanon DAMASCUS: Syrians voted in a parliamentary election on Monday touted by authorities as a milestone of political reform but dismissed by the opposition […]
India: Ahmadi volunteers beaten, abused by thugs claiming to be Muslims
Ahmadiyya Times: Several Ahmadī volunteers at a bookstall organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were beaten and abused by an Islamist mob in Kasaragod, Kerala, India. The bookstall was part of […]
Religious intolerance in Muslim societies: Ordinance XX in Pakistan
Dailytimes; Yasser Latif Hamdani: Much like Akbar the Great, the Mughal Emperor, Mehmet Fateh and Suleiman the Magnificent refused to give in to the whims of the Muslim clergy. Their […]
Nominating Karen Armstrong for Literature Nobel Prize
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her […]