JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 16 March 2014 A blind female beggar who died here suddenly has left behind SR3 million in cash, jewelry, gold worth SR1 million and four buildings, with no heir to inherit the small fortune. Ahmad Saidi, an assistant to Ayesha, the dead beggar, said […]
AP | Mar 15, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES inShare KABUL — In his final address to Afghanistan’s parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai told the United States its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 per cent of the country, was ready […]
MARCH 14, 2014 By ROBERT F. WORTH RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — MIKHLIF AL-SHAMMARI has been jailed repeatedly, declared an infidel, ruined financially and shot four times — by his own son — all for this: He believes his fellow Sunni Muslims should treat Shiites as equals. […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Federal Minister of State Hon. Michelle Rempel and Associate Minister (Alberta) Hon. Teresa Woo Paw participated in the seminar and gave their remarks. Minister Rempel shared her visit to the […]
Source: dallas-hiram.patch.com On March 13, 2014 at the Chattahoochee College campus in Paulding, the meeting began with the recitation of the Holy Quran by Mr. Bhatti, which was translated into English for the benefit of the audience. Next, Mr. Nafis Rehman, the Ahmadiyya Muslim M/C, presented videos outlining the history of […]
By Shahid Athar Saturday, 15 March 2014 Both the parents and the boy should remember that the criterion for choosing a spouse that was placed by the Prophet Muhammad was not wealth or color The marriage of Muslim girls in America is becoming a problem. Recently, a […]
Source: TOI LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday outlined the EU reforms he thinks are needed to stop Britain being “sucked into a United States of Europe”, ahead of a planned referendum on membership in 2017. The Conservative leader said he would campaign for Britain to stay in the […]
Source: CNN However far-fetched they may seem, these comparisons reflect a frantic search among Western politicians and experts for the underlying causes, rationales and consequences of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. And it slowly dawns on Europe that it is witness to a sea change in Russian foreign policy that shakes […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/6.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/technology/2014/03/12/t-ts-spritz-speed-reading.cnnmoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Social media and tech blogs have been ablaze with hype about a new speed-reading technology called Spritz. Instead of showing you lines of text the way […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — From the outside, the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran, seems like a fairly traditional house of worship — but it’s hiding a gorgeously colorful secret. The multitude of stained glass windows turn the inside of the mosque into a riotous wonderland of color […]
Epigraph O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters, as well as all [other] believing women, that they should draw over themselves some of their outer garments [when in public]: this will be more conducive to their being recognized [as decent women] and not annoyed. But [withal,] God is indeed […]
Facebook.com Today in Mighty Girl history, Hedy Lamarr, the glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film who co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology, was born in 1914. Originally from Austria, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in […]
Source: burtonmail.co.uk A MUSLIM community group has eased the burden on hard-up Burton families with a generous donation to a food bank. The Burton branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Group donated […]
Source: thejakartapost.com After years of persecution and discrimination, the nation’s minorities have said they will go to the polls this year to support legislative and presidential candidates who uphold freedom of religion. As many as 66 displaced Ahmadis, who have been taking shelter at Wisma Transito in Mataram, West Lombok, West […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A silver lining from the gravely tragic event of September 11, 2001, is that a verse […]
JEDDAH: FADIA JIFFRY ARABNEWS Published — Saturday 15 March 2014 The Ministry of Labor announced plans to launch a program next week to ensure the rights of domestic workers and to ascertain the responsibilities of employers toward their employees. The program will introduce and discuss the rights that […]
The decision by 77-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run again as President of Algeria has attracted the excoriating scorn of journalist Kamel Daoud ROBERT FISK Friday 14 March 2014 40 PRINT A A A “Shame upon you, Bouteflika! You have no shame for our martyrs, for your age, for your own sickness, for […]
Source: BBC Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and […]
BBC: by Patrick Howse — Overuse of baby equipment and electronic screens can impede the physical and emotional development of under-threes, a charity has warned. What About The Children? (Watch?) says modern lifestyles could be harming infant brains. It highlights strapping small children into pushchairs, and the increased use of […]