Significant numbers of far-right supporters in the UK consider violence and “armed conflict” a legitimate form of political expression, experts will warn this week. The first audit into the attitudes […]
Credit: Stratfor: A demonstrator steps on an ostrich egg with a drawing of Saudi King Abdullah on March 17 in Ankara The political gains of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have breathed new life into long-suppressed political Islamist forces across the Arab world. While it may appear on the surface […]
Express Tribune: KARACHI: Preetam Das is a good doctor with a hospital job and a thriving private clinic, yet all he thinks about is leaving Pakistan, terrified about a rise in […]
Credit: TOI DHAKA: A Saudi Arabian diplomat was shot in the chest and died in the Bangladesh capital in the early hours of Tuesday, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka police said. Police found Khalaf Al Ali’s body at an intersection just two buildings away from his residence in the city’s […]
Credit: TOI on Line: SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who underwent sex change surgery before being convicted on drugs charges escaped caning after a court recognised the change in gender, local media reported Tuesday. Preeta Nivashani M Rechnam, 40, was jailed on Monday for seven years and three months for a […]
Source: REUTERS By: Tom Heneghan. PARIS, March 5 (Reuters)- France’s prime minister urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their halal and kosher slaughter laws on Monday as President Nicolas Sarkozy […]
AFP | Mar 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Bosnian Muslim Senad Hadzic, who left home in December to walk to Mecca for the Hajj, on Monday told AFP he […]
By REUTERS Published: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 Updated: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 ANKARA: Turkish Gendarmerie Colonel Ridvan Ozden was killed in 1995, his wife says, not by Kurdish militants, but by his own colleagues for opposing their “dirty war” and saying the solution to the Kurdish problem was not through […]
Reuters | Mar 05,2012 | 23:26 TUNIS — The head of a group that has government permission to seek to promote religious teachings in Tunisia says he will use persuasion and protest but not violence to encourage Islamic behaviour in one of the Arab world’s most secular countries. Adel Al […]
Less than three weeks after the authorities here proclaimed that their first-ever exercise to test the preparedness for a great earthquake was a success, a gentle earthquake of 4.9 magnitude on Monday made clear that neither the public nor emergency services are in fact ready to deal with a real-life […]
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls on the media to utilise its influence with responsibility and justice The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 4 th March 2012, […]
If you got rid of the outer trappings of wealth, would you gain inner wealth? One woman says yes, and is trying to convince others that backing away from what she calls “a greedy consumer society” provides a better quality of life and personal freedom. Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old German […]
Republican Congressman Darrel Issa deserves our gratitude for his selection of an all-male panel of clergy witnesses to testify at the recent congressional hearing on reproductive rights and religious freedom. He has unintentionally sounded a startling and overdue wake-up call concerning the face of religion in America. Thankfully, our country […]
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits this week with U.S. President Barack Obama and others in the U.S., only one in five Israelis, or 19 percent, favor unilateral military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities without Washington’s approval, according to a poll taken by Israel’s Dahaf Institute and released by […]
MANILA, Philippines—Visiting personal finance guru Suze Orman sees the Philippines soon shining in the global community as an investment hub and having more of its households emancipated out of their dependence on overseas remittances. Orman, who was once described by USA Today as a “one-woman financial advice powerhouse,” said, however, that Filipino […]
پاکستان کے شہر راولپنڈی کے احمدی، شہر کی دوسری بڑی عبادت گاہ میں اپنی مذہبی سرگرمیاں اٹھانوے فیصد کم کرنے پر مجبور ہو گئے ہیں۔ دو ہزار دس میں لاہور کے احمدی مراکز پر حملوں کے بعد، راولپنڈی میں تین مساجد کے درمیان، اِس عبادت گاہ کے لیے […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Utube Editor’s Comment: No surprise but disappointment at the direction this fanaticism is leading this nation to and the quiet complicity of the institutions of the state.
Source: Huffington Post By: Qasim Rashid Critics incorrectly allege that Islam command’s husband’s to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like any Muslim man who harms […]
Source: Review of Religions By: Jonathan Butterworth In this era, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi, who was prophesied to appear by the past scriptures of […]
Source: (CNN) — As of February, more U.S. adults own smartphones than simpler feature phones, according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Well, to be more specific: In answering questions from Pew, 45% of cell phone owners said that their phone is a smartphone. Also, 49% of cell […]