Gaza blockade must end: Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson
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 […]
New British Foreign Minister: There should be a full UN investigation into Gaza
Source: Bournemouth Echo BOURNEMOUTH EAST MP Tobias Ellwood is to visit Gaza soon in his role as a new foreign office minister. Mr Ellwood was appointed by David Cameron in […]
Gaza: Israeli-Palestinian indirect talks begin in Cairo
Source: BBC Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives are taking place in the Egyptian capital Cairo. They come after a four-week conflict in Gaza that has claimed more than […]
Baroness Warsi Quits Over Gaza: First Interview With Former Foreign Office Minister
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=470&height=275&playList=518356480 Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi has dramatically quit the government, citing the UK’s “morally indefensible” position on the conflict in Gaza. In her resignation letter to the prime minister, David Cameron, Warsi wrote that Britain’s […]
Book Review: Muslim, Christian and Jew: Finding a Path to Peace Our Faiths Can Share
Muslim, Christian and Jew: Finding a Path to Peace Our Faiths Can Share Book by David Liepert An honest and wholehearted attempt to fulfill a task that is incumbent upon […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God, a detailed study from the Islamic perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God — An Islamic Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science Agnostics, […]
Breaking News: Jesus Always Prayed to God the Father, Never to Himself or the Holy Ghost
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy […]
Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel
Source: Salon.com By Rabbi Michael Lerner: He is an American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, […]
The case for a Kemalist intervention in Pakistan
Source: The International News Islamabad diary By Ayaz AmirPakistani democracy has done things to itself which it now finds impossible to get rid of. We can take it as an axiom […]
‘Islam is reviving British values’, says former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Love thy Neighbor is a Christian Value, Hate and Stereotyping aren’t
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had […]
What about a Palestinian’s right to freedom?
Epigraph: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]
Athanasius of Alexandria: the Compiler of the New Testament
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great,Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic […]
US, UN announce deal on 72-hour Gaza cease-fire
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 […]
Kerry Stresses U.S.-Germany Relationship Amid Spying Allegations
Source: Huffington Post VIENNA, July 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, standing alongside Germany’s foreign minister, on Sunday stressed the strategic importance of relations between the two […]
Somali woman killed for not wearing veil, relatives say
Al-Shabab is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia Continue reading the main story in BBC Somalia: Failed State ‘Mosquito militants’ Al-Shabab profile Who are al-Shabab?Watch What drives al-Shabab? Militant […]
BBC Video about Arson, Hate Crime and Murder in Gujranwala, in Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/worldwide/player.swf The video is in Urdu but the language of suffering and persecution is universal.
Celebrities & Nobel laureates stand up for #Gaza in new video: Freedom for Palestine
Published on Jul 28, 2014 Jewish Voices for Peace: Prominent Jews and Palestinians and others stand for Palestine in this heartbreaking video with Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Tony Kushner, Diana […]