Red Sea Project developer to be announced by October – ministry
Ministry to meet with bidding companies next week by Hana Namrouqa | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The master developer of the Jordan Red Sea Project (JRSP) will […]
Largest blood donor clinic to be held in Vaughan
Source: yorkregion.com If you want to donate blood, you will have a chance at one of the largest single blood donation clinics in Canada, right here in Vaughan. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is hosting their 10th annual blood donation clinic April 28 in partnership with Canadian Blood Services. The […]
Breaking Rules Makes You Seem Powerful
ScienceDaily (May 20, 2011) — When people have power, they act the part. Powerful people smile less, interrupt others, and speak in a louder voice. When people do not respect the basic rules of social behavior, they lead others to believe that they have power, according to a study in the […]
Philippines blinks, pulls warship from China standoff
Manila (AFP) – The Philippines pulled its biggest warship away from a standoff with Chinese vessels Thursday, but said the dispute was far from over with both nations deploying more non-military boats to the area. Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the Philippines decided to remove the navy’s flagship […]
The wisdom of women written out of history
the guardian The female of the species is more deadly than the male, cautioned Rudyard Kipling. Given Kipling’s love of mythology and prehistoric studies, he should perhaps have added “and smarter”. Because of all deities of wisdom across the globe and through known time, the massive majority – 97% – were […]
Abdennour Bidar: Mohammed Merah, a monster created by Islam’s illness
Source:AsiaNews.it A great French Muslim philosopher asks whether salafist violence – like that which killed the children of Jewish school in Toulouse – is not a symptom of something deeply wrong with the Muslim tradition. A religion that has closed in on itself. To renew Islam today, the challenge of modernity […]
Muhammad Khurshid Khan: Muslim Cleans Shoes In Shrines To Atone For Beheading Of Sikh By Islamists
Huff Post HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan — Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pakistan. The unassuming 62-year-old tending to the shoes is […]
Trier’s ‘Jesus tunic’ ready for half a million pilgrims
Source: The Local The ancient town of Trier is expecting at least half a million pilgrims over the coming month to view a tunic, put on display Friday, that was […]
Jürgen Todenhöfer: The West doesn’t want democracy in Syria
The Middle East expert and former member of the German Bundestag for the CDU party, Juergen Todenhoefer (Jürgen Todenhöfer), has sharply criticized the one-sided coverage of many media about the […]
Schools in India to give 25 percent seats to poor under ‘right to education’ act
Source: News Track India New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education act that mandates unaided private schools keeping 25 percent of seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society. However, the court made it clear that […]
Darul Uloom Deoband advises Indian Muslims to abandon polygamy
Source: India Today Deoband, the influential seminary, has directed Muslims in India to avoid practising polygamy, an initiative that has won instant approval much like the 2008 advisory that denounced terrorism as a grave sin against Islam. Responding to a query from a person who wanted to marry again while […]
Slow First Quarter in China, but Recent Signs of Growth
HONG KONG — The outlook for the Chinese economy may finally be looking a little less worrisome. Data released by the authorities in Beijing on Friday painted a picture of an economy that has lost much of the breakneck speed of previous years and that still relies on government-directed stimulus, […]
Muslim youth hosting Shari’a Law open house
Source: Emc Perth – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) is hosting an open house Saturday at the Perth and District Union Library from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The AMYA, which is an auxiliary wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been established as a non profit charitable, […]
The Law and Economics of Family Management
Source: Jakarta Globe Author: Pramudya A Oktavinanda I wonder how many people are aware of this, but our Legislative Board (DPR) is currently in the process of drafting a law on […]
Kuwait mulls death penalty for insulting God, Prophet
Reuters | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT — Kuwaiti lawmakers voted in favour of a legal amendment on Thursday which could make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammad punishable by death, after a case of suspected blasphemy on Twitter caused an uproar in the Gulf Arab state. Members of […]
Imam Muslim: Great scholar of Hadith
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Hadith is the great wealth of Islamic literature. This is the collection of pearls of wisdom from orations and actions of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). There are hundreds of companions of the Prophet who preserved this knowledge through oral transmission. Later tens […]
Syrians not allowed to visit for Umrah
By JEDDAH: DIANA AL-JASSEM Umrah performers from all over the world have started to arrive in Jeddah, but Syrian people are banned from doing Umrah this year due to the cancellation of all flights and bus trips, according to a member of the Haj and Umrah committee at the Makkah […]
VIEW: Decipher a religious column
Dailytimes: Syed Kamran Hashmi: These politically motivated religious columns yield benefits to the author socially and reward the politician in the polls He starts his essay with a Quranic verse […]
DPC unhappy over Parliament’s unanimous decision to reopen Nato supply line
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: April 13, 2012 PESHAWAR: “You want to feed them so they grow stronger and attack us” an angry Maulana […]