UN Panel Slams Vatican On Priest Sex Abuse, Citing Anti-Torture Treaty
Epigraph: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our […]
Obama has put Pakistan drone war on hold
(CNN) — A year ago, President Obama delivered a speech at the National Defense University in Washington in which he made the case that it was time to wind down the “boundless global […]
Pope Francis travels to the Holy Land with a rabbi and a Muslim cleric
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Book Review: EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy, A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the Christians and the Muslims closer and Karen […]
Queensland rejects push to make Muslim women remove burqas
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
Urumqi attack kills 31 in China’s Xinjiang region
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
The Last Supper: A Fiction Opposing the Account of Garden of Gethsemane
Epigraph: Then whoso does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. (Al Quran 99:8-9) By Zia H […]
50 Actual Facts That Challenge What You’ve Been Told About Muslims
Source: PolicyMic By Laila Alawa: Laila Alawa is a Muslim feminist, writer and cultural critic who has been published at The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Patheos, The Islamic Monthly, and serves […]
Prof. Richard Dawkins interviewed by a Muslim, for Al-Jazeera
Incidentally, the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of Meeraje of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, is an elaborate spiritual experience and they do not define it in physical […]
Nigerian twin bomb explosions kill dozens in Jos
Source: BBC At least 46 people have been killed and many others injured by two bomb explosions in the volatile central Nigerian city of Jos, police say. The blasts happened […]
Da Vinci code and the search for the Holy Grail
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The character Sir Leigh Teabing, in the famous novel ‘the Da Vinci code,’ by Dan Brown, says, […]
Debunking the Extremist Myth That Islam is Anti-Jewish
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid: He is an attorney, author, and national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. His upcoming book,EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere, is due […]
India versus Hinduphobia: What Narendra Modi’s Election as Prime Minister Really Means
Source: The Huffington Post By Vamsee Juluri: USF professor; author, ‘Bollywood Nation: India through its Cinema’ Narendra Modi’s victory needs to be understood beyond the two commonly heard positions we have heard […]
Geo TV owner in Pakistan and Three Others Booked for ‘Blasphemy’
Source: Dawn.com The Margalla Police Station on Saturday registered an FIR under sections 295-C and 298-A against owner of the Geo Network Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, morning show host Dr Shaista Lodhi, […]
New Egypt’s charter enshrines right of citizenship for Coptic Christians and Muslims
Epigraph: Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged — and Allah indeed has power to help them — Those who […]
AP Survey On Faith And Science Reveals That Science Is Often Trumped By Religious Belief
Religion News Service | by Cathy Lynn Grossman Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON (RNS) […]
Exorcism Conference At Vatican Addresses The Need For More Demon-Fighting Priests
On Sunday, the ninth annual “Exorcism and Prayer for Liberation” conference wrapped up at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. It covered the phenomenon of demonic possession as well […]
Transformer explodes in Turkish coal mine; 201 die in fire
By Talia Kayali, Gul Tuysuz and Michael Martinez, CNN updated 10:32 PM EDT, Tue May 13, 2014 (CNN) — A fire caused by a transformer explosion in a coal mine in […]
Offence against all religions comes under blasphemy law: CJ
Source: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Tuesday remarked that according to Pakistan Penal Code’s Article 295, offence against any religion comes under the blasphemy law […]
India shares at record high on exit polls
Indian stock markets have risen to a record high after exit polls suggested that Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies are on course to win the general […]