Aisha Gadhafi May Seek Asylum in Israel
Aisha Gadhafi, the daughter of the recently deposed and murdered Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, may be seeking asylum in Israel. An Israeli news site called Walla, citing a report on Intelligence Online, […]
Quantum Theory – Sign of a Personal God
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:104) He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and […]
Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools
Source/Credit: The New York Times JEFFERSON, S.C. — It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state. Enlarge This Image Anne McQuary for The New York Times “I definitely think that we should try […]
Shariah Law Concept of Enforcement
Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise, Fall 2011 By Dr. Lutf ur Rehman The idea of implementation of Shariah Law through the legislative process of a country is not new. Muslim […]
China to launch Shenzhou-9, Shenzhou-10 spacecraft next year: spokesman
BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — China will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012, a spokesman for the China National Space Administration said Thursday. Read More…
China activist Ni Yulan and her husband go on trial
Two Chinese rights activists have gone on trial in Beijing, accused of fraud and libel for their work providing legal help to people whose homes have been seized by the government. Ni Yulan and her husband, Dong Jiqin, have pleaded not guilty. Read More…
For many, ‘Losing My Religion’ isn’t just a song: It’s life
Source/Credit: Canada.com When Ben Helton signed up for an online dating service, under “religion” he called himself “spiritually apathetic.” Sunday mornings, when Bill Dohm turns his eyes toward heaven, he’s just checking the weather so he can fly his 1946 Aeronca Champ two-seater plane. Helton, 28, and Dohm, 54, aren’t […]
Khalifahtul Masih IV’s video: Do women in Islam have to wear the Hijab?
Hear the response of Khalfatul Masih IV, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad to this question.
Oil Prices Predicted to Stay Above $100 a Barrel Through Next Year
http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/329524110.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 The United States economy managed to cope this year despite triple-digit prices for barrels of oil. The lessons may come in handy, economists say, because those prices will probably be sticking around. With Iran threatening to cut off about a fifth of the world’s oil supply by closing the […]
Was there a real Jesus who lived on Earth?
By: Jaime T. Licauco: Philippine Daily Inquirer. However, it cannot be denied that centuries before the advent of Jesus, there were already pagan beliefs in dying and resurrecting god-men, which paralleled the story of Jesus as depicted in the Gospels adopted by the early Christians in 320 A.D., during the […]
Not possible to refuse Muhammad rationally: Analyzing William Montgomery Watt
William Montgomery Watt called Muhammad, may peace be on him, ‘one of the greatest sons of Adam,’ he regarded the Holy Quran as divinely inspired, though not infallible, yet he continued to be an apologist for Christianity all his life. Is there any rational way to reconcile Watt’s views? The […]
Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
We all knew Bibi, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was smart.. but did you know that Bibi is one of the 19 smartest people in the world.. with an IQ of 180!!!!??? […]
Indonesian, Iranian conference looks at women’s rights
AKARTA: A joint Iran and Indonesia conference on the rights of the Muslim women was largely seen as a popular step in the right direction by officials in both countries, […]
Saudi women to run, vote without male approval
Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, Riyadh, Saudi The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom’s restrictions against women, but it falls far short of what some Saudi reformers are calling for. Shura Council member Fahad al-Anzi was quoted in the state-run al-Watan newspaper on Wednesday […]
Oh look, not ALL the Middle East nutjobs are Muslims
By Aron Heller, Huffingto Post BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who […]
Israel ministry waits for Jewish ruling on letting women eulogize
Ministerial committee to advance status of women decided recently that Religious Services Ministry should amend burial society licenses so that women may accompany dead to graves, eulogize them at funerals. […]
Pir Chambal operation: Notorious LeJ commander arrested in Waziristan
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Asad Kharal Published: December 28, 2011 LAHORE: Senior commander of the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Dr Arshad, accused of killing four intelligence […]
Sacred women in Israel and Palestine
I can think of about four million Palestinians who can sympathise with Naama Margolese, the eight-year-old Israeli girl, whose routine humiliation by ultra-Orthodox Israelis on her way to school has “shocked” the nation, uniting the majority of Jewish Israelis in anger at the growing power of harshly conservative Jewish movements […]