Credit: TOI KANDAHAR: The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a US soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said on Sunday. The families of the dead received the money on Saturday at the governor’s […]
Credit: TOI LONDON: An Islamic marriage guide advising men on ‘the best ways’ to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence. The book – ‘A Gift For Muslim Couple’ – tells husbands that they should beat their wives […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Kaveh L Afrasiabi CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – In a major setback for Turkey’s self-promotion as a pivot of regional diplomacy, Tehran could rebuff Ankara’s bid to hold the next round of multilateral nuclear talks in Istanbul. As a result, unless Ankara sends Tehran some reassuring signals, it […]
Credit: Express Tribune: The Dark Ages is the period Europe spent in ignorance of Greek knowledge. How did Europe get out of this period? We saw last week — in my oped titled “A brief history of modernity” published in this newspaper on March 18 — how the foundations of […]
AHRC.Com: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist of a US based news agency is receiving death threats from Taliban Pakistan for writing stories on […]
(Reuters) – France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta organised its annual “Peace Symposium 2012”on Friday 16th March 2012, at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, Malta. In this symposium Dr. Simon Busuttil MEP, Hon. Evarist Bartolo […]
By RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN, ARAB NEWS STAFF The Saudi government paid SR72,000 in compensation to a stranded Sri Lankan housemaid whose Saudi sponsor had not paid her wages for the last 17 years. Kusuma Nandini, 57, who had come to Riyadh in 1994, was kept a virtual slave in the […]
by Taylor Luck | Mar 25,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Authorities confirmed on Sunday the arrest of several Syrian army defectors on suspicion of spying for the Syrian regime. According to the Public Security Department (PSD), police forces in Mafraq arrested last week 10 alleged army defectors who entered […]
NY Times: by Jonathan Haidt: THE RIGHTEOUS MIND You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure […]
NY Times: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The teenager in the immaculate white robe stood in the ruins of what had been his school. There were no classrooms, no desks or chairs, […]
Last night, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa, spoke at length about the perilous state of the world and the impending […]
Whereas the Holy Qur’an honors and holds every human life sacred, an extremist group in Pakistan, Tahaafuze Khatime-Nubuwwat (TKN) in a recent conference continued its tradition of inciting murder and hate crimes. It […]
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think. One well-known aspect of quantum physics […]
A Davao native who emigrated to South Korea may soon become that country’s first foreign-born lawmaker, Korea’s Ambassador to the Philippines Hye Min Lee said on Saturday. Ambassador Lee, speaking with reporters at the sides of an airport send-off to Seoul for Vice President Jejomar Binay, said a Filipina-Korean naturalized […]
Source: Huff Post This past Easter I attended the President’s Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House along with a couple hundred religious leaders from across the country. Before breakfast, a 76-year-old African-American preacher who served alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement offered a prayer. I […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune March 25, 2012 Recommended by Zubair Khan, Germany Hopes were high when Jinnah presided over the Constituent Assembly in 1947 and […]
Friday, January 27, 2012 GAMBIAN OBSERVER: The Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat in The Gambia, Baba F. Trawally, last Saturday laid the foundation stone of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s mosque worth D1.2M in Farafenni Wharf Town, opposite the Farafenni Senior Secondary School. The Amir also inaugurated a new library for the […]
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization warns that resistance to antibiotics could bring “the end of modern medicine as we know it”. Already a scratch on the leg of a child could have fatal consequences. The problem is also caused by modern agriculture, where feeding antibiotics to cattle […]
Source: Jang Newspaper On 23rd of March in his Friday sermon, in relation to the celebrations in Pakistan, the international leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad urged all Ahmadi […]