By IANS | 1 Jan, 2016, NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims have little fascination for Islamic radical groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, say scholars and Muslim leaders agreeing with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s assertion that Indian Muslims were not attracted to their ideologies. The minister, while speaking at a conference at […]
Harry, who gave up job in the City to join Kurdish forces, says fears of prosecution won’t keep him off the frontline Harry, who uses the pseudonym Macer Gifford, returned to Syria in early December to fight against Isis. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Ben Quinn Friday 1 January […]
Source: The Siasat Daily Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama who is also a Nobel Laureate termed the Holy Quran as a Sacred Book which is a priceless Gift of God […]
President Muhammadu Buhari. (Reuters) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Thursday 31 December 2015 LAGOS: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he had no new intelligence on some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped almost two years ago, and that his government would negotiate with any “credible” Boko Haram leadership for their release. […]
By Tufail Ahmad Tufail Ahmad is Director, South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington DC. He hails from India and tweets @tufailelif Tufail Ahmad is Director, South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington DC. He hails from India and tweets […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 22 people, police say. The bomb went off outside the National Database and […]
Dec 29,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Hassan A. Barari A newly released opinion poll conducted by the Doha-based Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies offers an insight into the way Arabs in 12 countries view Daesh and President Bashar Assad’s role in radicalising some Syrians. The polls focused on various issues […]
By AFP – Dec 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian female protester covers her face as she walks past burning tyres during confrontations with Israeli forces near the Ofer Israeli military prison, located near the West Bank town of Betunia, on Friday following a march by young Palestinians (AFP photo) […]
At the Grande-Synthe camp, children are forced to play in the mud as a sanitation crisis looms Adam Lusher Wednesday 23 December 2015 286 comments Mohammad Faiq, four, plays outside his family’s tent at the Grande-Synthe camp, near Dunkirk, yesterday Justin Sutcliffe In front of a tent pitched beside a […]
Voices Syria’s war is complicated – but the refugee crisis is not How is it that Lebanon and Jordan – smaller, less-wealthy nations – are able to take in more refugees than the whole of Europe put together? Rachel Shabi @rachshabi The child of Kurdish migrants stands outside a tent […]
Source: BBC An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools […]
Guardian: A federal government frontbencher has warned against “simplistic” calls for a reformation within Islam, arguing “megaphone politics” could jeopardise Australia’s relations with regional neighbours such as Indonesia. In a rebuke to former prime minister Tony Abbott, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said calls for reform within Islam required “a reality check and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect […]
By JT – Dec 17,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Jewish extremists, some bare footed, are seen in the vicinity of Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem earlier this week. The government […]
Source.Seattlepi.com A bomb squad was called, and the area around the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Baitus-Salaam Mosque was evacuated after the device was discovered around 6:30 a.m., police said in a statement. Investigators determined the device was a plastic replica of a hand grenade. The word “Jesus” was sprayed in white […]
Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES. The pictures have been added by the Muslim Times By John V. Whitbeck, who is an international lawyer who writes frequently on the Middle East […]
Veteran politician blasts Western policy in the Middle East and warns air strikes risk worsening Syria crisis. Kate Mayberry | 04 Dec 2015 Source: Al Jazeera Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir […]
http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/oppenheim/oppenheim/oppenheim-unbekannte-zerstoeren-baum-den-ein-islamischer-kulturverein-als-friedenssymbol-gepflanzt-hatte_16437855.htm The German Newspaper ‘Die Allgemeine Zeitung, a local paper from Oppenheim, reported that unknown persons destroyed a tree planted by members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Ansarullah Team.
Source: BBC San Bernardino in California remains in shock after a shooting at a disabled service centre, in which 14 died and 17 were injured. The motive is still unknown. […]
Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The shooting of a Russian warplane by Turkey galvanised public opinion attention in our region. Some financial analysts compared it to the events, 100 years ago, of the summer of 1914, when Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the city […]