Reuters By Shaheen Pasha and Cameron French | Reuters – DUBAI/TORONTO (Reuters) – The insolvency of an Islamic mortgage lender in Canada may hinder the growth of sharia-compliant finance in North America, where the industry has struggled to gain traction in the absence of a supportive regulatory framework. UM Financial […]
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Pensioners and parents are being forced into poverty. Who will be their champion? At the height of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln stood in a soldiers’ graveyard and promised […]
Pravda Ru. o5.12.2011. Russia’s Central Election Commission has processed 92 percent of votes as of Monday morning, Dec. 5. United Russia, the ruling party, has gained 49.67 percent of votes, Nikolai Konkin, the secretary of the commission said. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation gained 19.13%, Just Russia – […]
Russia’s ‘squeezed middle’ is disenchanted with Mr Putin, as his election humiliation shows – even his allies are getting nervous about his plans. As Vladimir Putin nurses a rare electoral […]
Atheists are right in exposing the irrationality of the Christian dogma. However, the Christians are right in as far as their claim that there needs to be a Creator of […]
TRIPOLI Dec 4 (Reuters) – The man whose arrest in February sparked Libya’s revolution was sworn in as a minister in the new interim government on Sunday but said he had been hesitant about taking on the new job. Fethi Tarbel, Libya’s new sport and youth minister, wiped away tears […]
Female doctors who have laid siege to the male bastion of the medical profession are poised to overtake their male counterparts in what a medical journal describes as a “giant leap for womankind”. Women have outnumbered men in medical schools for a decade and are set to become a majority […]
A great number of those who grew up under Christianity are living under a broken cross and taking on agnostic or atheistic point of view. Unfortunately, given the Islamophobia in the […]
One of the ills of democracy is that decision making is driven by the opinions of the majority – those who may not be well equipped in the art of running the government. If we could overcome this, we could enjoy all the joys of democracy and avoid all the […]
Libya has announced the lineup for a transitional government that will draft a constitution and prepare the country for elections, trying to ensure that the demands of regional and political […]
Napoleon Bonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Leonardo da Vinci … history is full of names of famous figures who accomplished historical feats on reportedly few hours of sleep. Now, new research suggests they may […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was he a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, atheists and pantheists, all equally claim that Einstein belongs to them. But, as he belonged to Jewish background, Abrahamic traditions […]
By Gyan Basnet. Courtesy Asia Times Online. The United Nations was founded in 1945 in order to replace the League of Nations and in so doing to bring about a new world order. Today the organization’s structure still reflects the circumstances pertaining at the time of its founding, but in the meantime […]
I was very happy to see the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile, in October of 2010, after an ordeal of more than two months. I noted all the […]
Representatives of the Inner Baduy tribe in Lebak district in Banten plan to seek help from the Constitutional Court in getting their traditional religion officially recognized. “We request that the […]
The controversy over the construction of a Protestant church denied a permit by mayor continues, despite the Supreme Court ruling. Both parties seek support from different Muslim organizations. Bogor – […]
DUNYAPUR:For minorities in Pakistan, persecution never ends. Even in death, the Ahmadiyya community faces persecution. In a gruesome incident late Saturday night, 29 graves in an Ahmadi graveyard were desecrated […]
A record-breaking some 11,000 people filled the streets from San Anton to Valletta in the third – and biggest – the yearly President’s Charity Fun Run for Istrina that took […]
by Khalid Ahmed- Express Tribune; There is little consciousness of ethic in us because of the way we understand our religion. It deals with piety through worship. Once attained, piety is supposed to ensure ethical conduct. Therefore, religiosity is what we emphasise and practise it to make others believe that […]