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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Jakarta Globe: Frequently at Sahabat Anak (Child’s Friend), people ask us, “Who is a street child?” A street child lives a complex life and as someone once remarked to […]
the guardian Democracy and Islam can flourish together, David Cameron will declare on Thursday as he uses a landmark speech in Indonesia to tell the Muslim world that it can reject a “dead-end choice” between extremism and dictatorship. In one of his most significant speeches on Islam, the prime minister will say that the world can […]
Huff Post Can you say anything about the Catholic faith without other Catholics taking offense? No matter how benign, no comment on the web about Catholicism goes unchallenged. Moreover, the idea of trying to understand a person by reading carefully what they’re actually saying, or giving them the benefit of […]