Sufism – once just another variant of Islam, now bankrolled by Britain and the US as a ‘moderate’ form of the religion that could help counter extremism in Pakistan. But what is Sufism? Where did it come from? And what role does it play today? In the first of a […]
Thirty years ago this month, religious extremists pulled off an audacious attack on Islam’s holiest site in Mecca. Sec Kanwar speaks to one of the few writers to study this under-reported event, and looks at how what followed led to the global spread of Wahhabism, whose impact has been felt […]
France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran. French officials said the move was a temporary security measure. Britain expelled 25 Iranian diplomats following Tuesday’s attack, when hundreds stormed the British embassy. British officials say the attack […]
Source: Qantara Sharia is a collection of norms that can be interpreted in many ways – either for or against democracy. Islamist parties are not per se opposed to democracy, writes the renowned scholar of Islam, Mathias Rohe in his commentary How terrible would it be if, in future, Libyan […]
President Ernest Bai Koroma has commended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Sierra Leone for contributing towards national development in the areas of Education, Health, and Energy. Declaring the 50th Annual […]
By Manzurul A. Sikder, M.D. New York, USA This was originally published in JAMMA in 2007 Foreword by Zia H Shah: The Holy Quran urges us to reflect on the Laws of Nature. It draws examples from cosmology, geology, biology and physics among other branches of science, as signs for […]
By BEATA M. ANDONIA, Jerusalem Post: Bethlehem is singularly important with its historical place in history; people around the world hold a special place for this small city. Each year, […]
The Jakarta city administration has moved with exceptional speed to cut down an old mahogany tree said to harbor two distinct forms of Indonesian ghosts. The extraordinary turn of events […]
Pravda Ru. 30.11.2011 Russian warships were sent to the military base in Syria. The fleet is led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. Included also are a patrol vessel and other vessels. The Russian government announced Tuesday that from December, a flotilla of warships will be sent to the naval […]
Written by Muhammad Azimul Haque “Like the Bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and see only the good in all” (Srimad Bhagavatam […]
A growing number of biology and medical students are rejecting the very basis of their chosen subject in favour of creationism. A few years ago I had an operation to […]
(AP) MANILA, Philippines — Away from fans’ prying eyes, David Beckham took time out from soccer to share his experiences and listen to Filipino children struggling to rebuild their broken lives. “It’s so important to have a dream,” Beckham told the former street children Friday at a UNICEF-supported shelter in […]
For weeks, privacy concerns swirled around a piece of software installed on millions of phones that allegedly logs keystrokes, location data and a host of other information. Today, major phone companies are finally responding with denials of any involvement, but Sprint and AT&T they are using Carrier IQ to improve […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Bible, The Quran and Science is a book by a French surgeon Dr. Maurice Bucaille and could be described as a commentary of the following verses of the Holy Quran: The disbelievers say: This Quran is naught but […]
Epigraph “We think that since God is the author both of his Word the Bible and of this universe, there must ultimately be harmony between correct interpretation of the biblical […]
The situation in Syria is just a warm-up before a real confrontation, which will draw Russia and China into action, believes Lawrence Freeman from the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. Russia and China are rightly worried about what is behind the policy of the US and its allies in Syria and […]
Source / Courtesy: Press TV Amnesty International has urged African nations to arrest former US President George W. Bush during his visit to the continent this month. “International law requires that there be no safe haven for those responsible for torture; Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia must seize this opportunity to […]
By REUTERS BAGHDAD: The US military passed a milestone in its pending withdrawal from Iraq on Friday, vacating its vast main base near Baghdad airport that once housed the American […]
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Women account for a third of the 47,000 Saudi students on the King Abdullah foreign scholarship program in the United States, according to […]
KARACHI: The rupee’s downward rally continued in the interbank as it fell for five straight days against the dollar to close at Rs 89.40 on Friday. The greenback’s demand surged due to high import payment The rupee was traded at Rs 89.02 versus the dollar as imports’ payment of more […]