JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia’s government has declared that the moon is not in the right position for the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan to end as expected on Tuesday, causing hungry disappointment in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Indonesians, 90 per cent of whom are Muslim, celebrate the end […]
By MIRWAIS HAROONI | REUTERS ARABNEWS KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered on Tuesday that eight would-be child suicide bombers, groomed by the Taleban but rescued by authorities, be sent back to their families. The group, which includes a seven-year-old, are the youngest among some 20 children who were detained […]
SWISSINFO, AP BERN, Switzerland: Switzerland has ordered an independent investigation to uncover why Swiss officials ignored up to 10,000 asylum requests submitted by Iraqi refugees. Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga says the asylum applications were lodged with Switzerland’s embassies in Syria and Egypt between 2006 and 2008. Sommaruga told reporters […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Eid celebrations in Saudi Arabia generally are characterized by joy at successfully fulfilling religious and spiritual obligations for a whole month. They are also a clear expression of social solidarity and tolerance, and are occasions for family reunion where people renew their brotherly […]
We are thankful to Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful, for giving us another wonderful feature for the Muslim Times. We now have a video page: http://video.themuslimtimes.org/ You can also go to it from the ‘Video’ tab next to the ‘Home’ tab from our Homepage. So, we now have our own YouTube. […]
Source: The Rio Times RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A leading figure in Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (the MST, or Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra), was assassinated last Thursday evening in the Northern state of Pará. Valdemar Oliveira Barbosa was shot to death by two gunmen while riding his bicycle through […]
by Ramzi Baroud – The Tripoli Post At a press conference in Tripoli on August 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ago, disorganised and leaderless rebel fighters seemed to have little chance at ousting Libyan dictator Muammar […]
Source / Courtesy: Dawn.com By Aurangzeb Haneef In popular Spanish memory, Granada came to hold a rather romanticised vision. The Spanish saying goes: “Quien no ha visto Granada, no ha visto nada,” meaning that one who has not seen Granada has not seen anything. Poets wrote about it, singers sang about it, and […]
Telegraph UK: Terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department of Health, said patients who were too frail to take their own lives […]
by Nicholas Schmidle, THE NEW YORKER Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs […]
“My aim and the desired objective is to serve the mankind” (Promised Messiah as, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) Laiq Ahmed Atif, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta presented food items together with milk and water to the Civil Protection Department, as a Humanitarian Aid for Libya. He met […]
Jakarta Globe: Alexandria. In a Catholic church located in the shadow of Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington, the first US president, a group of Muslim faithful roll out their prayer rugs each week and kneel to pray to Allah. Polls show that Islam in the United States is […]
by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch and agencies Once seen as the safest country in Europe, Switzerland has succumbed to the continent’s average levels of street violence, burglaries and assault. A report presented by the cantonal justice and police directors on Tuesday showed a rise in criminal activity since 2004, when the […]
By REUTERS, ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: An Israeli military official said on Tuesday that two additional warships had been stationed in the Red Sea but added that this was no more than routine. He played down reports that they were connected to an Egyptian sweep of the Sinai peninsula for militants that […]
By ARAB NEWS The tourism industry in Malaysia currently ranks as the second foreign exchange earner. As far as the results go, promoting the tourism industry has been one of the country’s success stories. In celebrating Malaysia’s 53 years of nationhood, its tourism industry certainly deserves due recognition for its […]
By ABDUL HANNAN TAGO | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Sheikh Ahmad Al-Asheikh, who led the Eid prayer Tuesday morning at the Eid ground near Riyadh Airbase in Malaz district, called on the Islamic ummah to be leaders not only in religious affairs but also in the world of science and technology. […]
By MICHAEL S. BOS, ARABNEWS IN September, attention will turn to the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and pundits will have their say about the significance of this tragic event. The one thing on which all Americans will agree is that this was the day that transformed our understanding of Islam. […]
New York (CNN) — When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled. Yet now, after all the wreckage has been […]
Coin World reports that the feds are looking to seize liberty dollars from collectors and those using the coins instead of inflation-ridden Federal Reserve notes. Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office said on August 24 that the coins are contraband. The Secret Service, the federal agency responsible for confiscating counterfeit […]