US lawmaker joins Islamic organizations in support of mosque construction
Islam Times - U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat, and New York City Council Member Robert Jackson joined the Islamic Leadership Council at a rally Wednesday in support of the construction of the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground ... |
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People mark International Quds Day
Islam Times - As Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials meet in Washington, Iranians alongside other people around the world have marked the International Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramadan... |
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Palestinian groups vow to resist Israel
Islam Times - Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip have pledged to continue resistance against Israel, condemning direct talks between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority... |
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US Islamic center to fight Islamophobia
Islam Times - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is planning measures to counter the recently stepped-up anti-Islam campaign in the United States... |
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Israel, creation of colonial powers
Islam Times - Israel has been created by colonial powers with the aim of halting the growth of Middle Eastern countries, chairman of Iran's Expediency Council says... |
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2010 Already Deadliest Year for US Troops in Afghanistan
Islam Times - A deadly spate of attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 22 US soldiers in the past four days, bringing the overall toll to 322 American troops killed so far in 2010, making it already the deadliest year yet... |
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Iran Begins Loading Fuel at its Bushehr Nuclear Reactor
Islam Times - Nationwide celebrations as Russian engineers oversee the arrival of an initial fuel shipment at Iran's first nuclear power plant... |
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Israel-Lebanon Tensions Flare After Skirmish Leaves Four Dead
Islam Times - Can a tree start a Middle East war? It almost did yesterday. |
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Fury As Israel President Claims English Are 'Anti-semitic'
Islam Times - Judge Richard Goldstone, the eminent Jewish South African judge, decided in his 575-page UN inquiry into the Gaza bloodbath that both sides had committed war crimes – he was, of course, quite rightly called "evil" by all kinds of justifiably outraged ... |
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WikiLeaks in Baghdad
Islam Times - One by one, soldiers just arriving in Baghdad were taken into a room and questioned by their commanding officers. "All questions led up to the big question," explains former Army Spc. Josh Stieber. "If someone were to pull out a weapon in a marketplace ... |
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After 32 Years, Grief for Imam Sadr’s Disappearance in Libya Lingers On
The son of kidnapped Imam Musaa Sadr has said his father and his companions are still alive in Libyan jails. “Imam Sadr, Sheikh Mohammed Yaaqoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine are still alive and are being held captive by Gadhafi,” Sadreddine Sadr told the state-... |
The noble Qur’an and Ramadan
There is a close relationship between the noble Qur’an and Ramadan. It was in this month in the fortieth year of his life in Makkah that Muhammad (pbuh) had a dramatic encounter in the Cave of Hira’ with the archangel, Gabriel (a)... |
The expected scenarios for the future of the governance in Egypt
Islam Times - Egypt since several years is suffering of a political and social complex crisis having various manifestations. On the one hand, it is suffering of the acts of protest, sit-ins, and demonstrations, which reached to four thousand during the last two ... |
Measuring Progress Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
Islam Times - On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and members of the Cabinet will travel Sunday to New Orleans... |
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Nine Years Later, Afghanistan Looks Much the Same: A Mess
Islam Times - The roads are impressive. Specifically, the fact that they exist. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, more than two decades of civil conflict had left the country bereft of basic infrastructure. Roads, bridges and tunnels had been bombed and ... |
'American Soldiers Sacrificed a Lot. But We Sacrificed More'
Islam Times - In 2003, a month after coalition troops invaded, Jonathan Steele reported from across the country on how ordinary people had reacted to the toppling of Saddam. Before the last US combat troops pulled out last week, he returned to track down the people ... |
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US military’s activities on the pretext of relief operation in the flood affected areas of Pakistan
Islam Times - Some of the circles in Pakistan expressed concern on arrival of one thousand American marines under the pretext of providing relief to flood Stricken people especially sensitive regions of this country... |
Support Builds for Boycotts Against Israel, Activists Say
Islam Times - The so-called "boycott, divestment, and sanctions'' movement aimed at pressuring Israel to withdraw from land claimed by Palestinians has long been considered a fringe effort inside the United States... |
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Fox News Comes Out of the Closet
Islam Times - Fox News finally made it official. They are part and parcel of the Republican Party. They are now the largest donors to the Republican Governors Association, having given them $1 million dollars... |
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Ahmadinejad says Iran Ready for Nuclear Talks
Islam Times - Iran is ready for immediate talks with world powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published in Japan on Friday... |
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Sami Abu Zuhri: Seeking Martyrdom is the Right of the Resistance in the Shadows of the International Day of Quds
Gaza, Islam Times – The speaker for Hamas, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri emphasized that the resisting the Zionist enemy is the right of every Palestinian. Nobody can prevent the resistance from seeking martyrdom on the International Day of Quds. |
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"You Need to Know What's Really Going On": WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the Fight for the Truth
Islam Times - Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, says his work is based on the "ancient vision" of uncovering the truth. And he says sources would rather turn over their information to him than to traditional news outlets because ... |
US occupation not for "liberation of Iraqis"
Islam Times - Michael Prysner, an Iraqi war veteran and peace activist, was a corporal in the US army that invaded Iraq in 2003, today he is a leader of March Forward, an organization of American veterans from both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict. |
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The War On Terror's Forgotten Victim Speaks
(Islam Times) - Babar Ahmad, 35, is the longest-serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK. In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells Robert Verkaik that he is the forgotten victim of the 'war ... |
French government 'institutionally corrupt'
(Islam Times) - French President Nicholas Sarkozy is accused of receiving illegal donations from Frances richest woman, L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt in 2007, to finance his election campaign. |
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