China bans wearing burqa in biggest Muslim city
By Steven Jiang, CNN Story highlights Xinjiang province passes law to ban wearing burqa in public A spate of violent incidents has rocked Xinjiang, long inhabited by the largely Muslim […]
As a Muslim, I’m Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists
Source: Huffingtonpost.co.uk By Mehdi Hasan Political director of The Huffington Post UK Dear liberal pundit, You and I didn’t like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that “either you […]
Slandering one is a crime, slandering millions is ‘free speech,’ go figure
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Free speech is like food, we need it badly. If there is too little of food, we […]
Merkel to join German Muslim rally for tolerance
Merkel to join German Muslim rally for tolerance By Frank Zeller for Business Insider . Berlin (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to join a Muslim community rally Tuesday […]
Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom From Consequences
Source: New York Times By Yousef Munayyer is a Palestinian-American writer and analyst. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from its consequences. The ideal of freedom of speech is […]
Rector at the Great Mosque of Paris Calls for Abandoning Political Islam
Dalil Boubakeur, Rector at the Great Mosque of Paris, tells Christiane Amanpour that political Islam should be abandoned. This is what the Muslim Times has been preaching since its inception. […]
Karen Armstrong: Author that Paris needs to bring Christians & Muslims together; nominating her for Nobel
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Liam Neeson considers converting to Islam following trip to Istanbul
Source: Daily Mail ‘The call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and […]
Don’t worry about cartoons, watch and share the best movie about the Prophet Muhammad, the Message
The Muslim Times’ response to: Mohammed cartoon contest planned in Arizona today Epigraph: And Messengers have indeed been mocked at before thee, but that whereat they mocked encompassed those of […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: These Terrorist Attacks Are Not About Religion
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” […]
Don’t worry about cartoons, watch and share the best movie about the Prophet Muhammad, the Message
Epigraph: The hypocrites say, “If we return to Medina, the one most honorable will surely drive out therefrom the one most ‘mean’ (Muhammad);” while true honor belongs to Allah and to […]
Islam backs free speech: Column
Islam stands on its own merits, not by the guns and steel of extremists. Source: USA Today By Qasim Rashid (Photo: Evert Elzinga, AFP/Getty Images) Free speech is a fundamental Islamic […]
France: Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack
(CNN) A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists — one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the […]
Blasphemy in Islam: The Quran does not prescribe punishment for abusing the Prophet
Source: Times of India By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Oct 2, 2012, 12.00 AM IST In Islam, blasphemy is a subject of intellectual discussion rather than a subject of physical […]
The Muslim Times Leading the Discussion on Free Speech
Epigraph: The hypocrites say, “If we return to Medina, the one most honorable will surely drive out therefrom the one most ‘mean’ (Muhammad);” while true honor belongs to Allah and to […]
12 Killed in a Gun Attack in Paris and the Muslim Times’ Response
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Gun attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, kills 11
Source: BBC Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 10, French officials say. Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the […]
FBI investigating explosion outside NAACP office in Colorado
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN Updated 5:01 AM ET, Wed January 7, 2015 (CNN) The FBI is investigating an explosion outside a local NAACP chapter in Colorado. The makeshift bomb, or improvised […]
Millions of Orthodox Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ on the night of January 6th
This video is from 2012. Millions of Orthodox Christians across the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ on the night of January 6th, in accordance with the Julian […]
Site of Jesus’s trial may have been found in Jerusalem – archeologists
Source: Russia Times Decades of excavation of an old abandoned building adjacent to an ancient museum in Jerusalem’s Old City have revealed what could be remains of the palace where […]