Source / Courtesy: Daily Times (Reuters) – New York police are investigating as bias crimes four Molotov cocktail attacks on Sunday night including one against a mosque with 75 people inside and another against a Hindu place of worship. No injuries were reported. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday […]
AMMAN — Several ancient archaeological sites in Jordan will be affected by the construction of the Red-Dead Water Conveyance Project, a recent report concluded. Many sites will potentially be affected […]
By islamic-arts.org Team Australian designer Peter Gould explores contemporary graphic design, digital art, photography and the rich visual & spiritual traditions of Islam. Peter embraced Islam in 2002 while studying […]
Royal runs campaign for change in her homeland from a suburb in west London Cahal Milmo. Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdul Aziz is one of the […]
RT: The rise of neo-Nazism across Europe has been progressing steadily, with Germany in particular seeing more and more young people being drawn to extreme-right groups. RT’s Egor Piskunov has been examining what is driving this dangerous trend. With a population of only 6,000, Zossen is a typical small German […]
NY Times: Today, the big children will eat, Cynthia, 15, and Guellor, 13. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the little ones, Bénédicte, Josiane and Manassé, 3, 6, and 9. Of course, the small ones will fuss. “Yes, sure, they ask for food, but we don’t have any,” said […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Like it or not, but Islam and Christianity have been two missionary religions, which have been struggling to win […]
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Victor Vasnetsov. Christopher Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. My condolences to his family and friends. From here on any blunt […]
Source / Courtesy: 50-50 Inclusive Democracy Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic state has hijacked the […]
Riyadh: Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian’s approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, when women will also run for office for the first time, a Saudi official has said. The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom’s restrictions against women, but […]
The Arab revolutions have altered perceptions of the region. The new regimes may have democratic foundations but they won’t look like anything the West or liberals may hope for, especially in Egypt. Still, even if they end up being governed or dominated by Islamist parties, the new regimes that have […]
http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/111175477.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707%2CH07707 Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity measures that put growth further out of reach. Saying that Europe was facing its “harshest test in decades,” Chancellor Angela Merkel […]
Source / Courtesy: The Express Tribune The year 2011 must rank as one of the worst years in the nation’s life. It began with the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and ended with the most internecine of politics to topple the incumbent government before its term in office via the memogate […]
One of your New Year’s resolutions is probably to better balance your professional life with your personal life. If not, it should be. So how do you accomplish this? Perhaps the easiest thing to do is move to a country where the locals are already very happy with their work-life […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Madiha Saeed Published: January 2, 2012 KARACHI: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, while addressing a large gathering of supporters in Karachi, said that if […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Reuters Published: January 1, 2012 HONOLULU: President Barack Obama signed a sweeping US defense funding bill on Saturday which includes new sanctions […]
It is the largest gift the National University of Singapore (NUS) has received from an international alumnus, but Indonesian tycoon Tahir is reluctant to talk about the $30 million he […]
This past Christmas weekend heralded more than just the traditional church services, turkey dinners, holiday sales and gift-giving. At the Baitul Hameed Mosque on Ramona Ave. in Chino, an overflow crowd of 1,261 Ahmadi Muslims and guests filled the prayers halls and lecture auditoriums for three days of invigorating spiritual […]
It is pertinent to mention here that over 960 people had been charged with blasphemy in Pakistan from 1980 to 2009. Of these, 479 were Muslims, 340 Ahmadis, 119 Christians, […]