Pilgrimage to Rumi: May It Be Love
Omid Safi, Huffington Post A few days ago I stood with a few thousand people, huddled inside Rumi’s shrine, celebrating the 738th anniversary of his passing on to the Beyond. […]
Pakistan faces flood threat, says study: That Sinking Feeling
DAWN News: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been warned of frequent floods of disastrous nature like the ones that battered the country in 2010 and 2011 in the Indus river owing to rapid glacier retreat and shifting of monsoonal zones by about 100 kilometres towards northwest regions. In a recent communication it […]
Central Moscow bans alcohol for New Year: Inching towards religious prohibitions
RT: Getting a drink in Central Moscow on New Year’s eve is going to be impossible. Authorities are to ban the sale of alcohol in the city centre on New Year’s Eve night. All shops is central Moscow will stop selling all alcoholic drinks at 7pm local time on December […]
Iran blocks access to British embassy website
British Foreign secretary William Hague says website has been added to long list of those censored by Iranian authorities. http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.htmlhas blocked access to the website of the British embassy in […]
Portugal’s migrants hope for new life in old African colony
Increasing numbers of Europeans are going to Mozambique in search of work, but many have unrealistic expectations. It is Wednesday, and 31-year-old Maria Nunes is picking at her husband’s grilled […]
Photosynthesis: deserving of our awe or ridicule?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After centuries of research, technology has created solar panels. The plant kingdom has been converting solar energy into […]
Is it rational to believe in God?
Jakarta Post The world’s most famous physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking has declared that God does not exist. Hawking joins the opinion of several other world-class scientists like Richard Dawkins, Peter Atkins, James Watson, Victor Stenger and many others who deny the existence of God in the name of the latest […]
IN PICTURES / Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah
Celebrations of the Festival of Lights take place at various locations throughout the world, including the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London and the Ellipse outside the White House […]
Ahmadiyya Youth going Door to Door
Source; Peterborough Examiner Door to Door Muslims A group of 36 young Muslims from Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada will visit Peterborough on Saturday and Sunday, going door to door to educate people about the teachings of Islam and dispel any misconceptions about their religion. Over the last 12 […]
‘Iran attack: Downfall of Zionist Israel’
Former German lawmaker Norman Paech says any Israeli venture to launch a military strike against Iran would spell the end of Tel Aviv regime. A war with Iran would be […]
AMYA volunteers bring message of PEACE
Credit; Chris Abbott Source; Tillsonburg Independent The message Saturday was peace. A group of 12 volunteers from Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA), an auxiliary wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited Tillsonburg Saturday to spread their message. “It’s a good day today, not too cold,” said Sadqat Chaudhary of […]
Picture of the Day
ZURICH: Flamingos rest on a frozen pond at their enclosure at a zoo in Switzerland. ap
Preachers hail UAE’s religious tolerance
DUBAI: Christian residents here must count their blessings – including the freedom of worship in the UAE – more than their personal troubles in order to live the message of the season, said preachers in the run-up to Christmas. “We are all just visitors, minorities here,” the Rev Fr Tom Veneracion, […]
US, Pakistan share blame for NATO attack: Reports
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Huma Imtiaz Published: December 22, 2011 WASHINGTON: The American and Pakistani forces both are to be blamed for the November 26 Nato […]
Solve the Pakistan problem by redrawing the map- Create Baluchistan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/solve-the-pakistan-problem-by-redrawing-the-map/article2278388/ Relations between the United States and Pakistan have reached an all-time low. The Khyber Pass is closed to NATO cargo, U.S. personnel were evicted from Shamsi airbase and Pakistani observers have been recalled from joint co-operation centres. Much more importantly, senior officials in Washington now know that Pakistan has […]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard bends on Nauru offshore processing (of immigrants)
LABOR will talk to Nauru about reopening an asylum seeker processing centre there if the coalition agrees to pass the government’s amendment to the Migration Act without changes. Immigration Minister […]
In Islamic Law, Gingrich Sees a Mortal Threat to U.S. and how should Muslim Times respond?
Source: NY Times. WASHINGTON — Long before he announced his presidential run this year, Newt Gingrich had become the most prominent American politician to embrace an alarming premise: that Shariah, or Islamic law, poses a threat to the United States as grave as or graver than terrorism. For Newt Gingrich, in […]
US says poor coordination caused Mohmand massacre
Source: TOI on Line. WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday offered a cautious and qualified mea culpa — laced with obdurate defence — for the 26/11 Mohmand air strike by Nato forces which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. It sought to blame the fog of war and inadequate coordination between the […]
US expert claims Khan network supplied nuke technology to India
Source: TOI on line. A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that Pakistan’s notorious nuclear engineer AQ Khan may have proliferated nuclear technology to India. WASHINGTON: A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that Pakistan’s notorious nuclear engineer AQ Khan may have proliferated […]
To complain or not to complain?
A car struck two men and killed one and maimed the other. the maimed one sat up and started filling the sky cursing the driver to Allah and begging retribution and finally the driver was unnerved and pleaded “i just maimed you a little and you’re sitting there cursing me, […]