Sri Lanka deports 161 Islamic preachers
Immigration official says the deported violated visa regulations by preaching around the country. Source: Aljazeera. Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Islamic preachers to leave the country, […]
DEFINING “ISLAMOPHOBIA”
The term “Islamophobia” was first introduced as a concept in a 1991 Runnymede Trust Report and defined as “unfounded hostility towards Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or […]
Religion and US polls
Source: Dawn Author: Syed Amir THE separation of religion and state is grounded in the first amendment of the US constitution and has long been recognised as a guiding principle. Thomas […]
TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint in USA
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Europe Steps Up Pressure on Greece
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Openhouse on Islam and women in Port Hope
Source: Northumberland Today – Promoting peace, condemning terrorism and dispelling myths about Islam have been the goals of the nation-wide campaign of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, an […]
Peaceful Exchange
Source: Chatham Daily News – Members of the youth wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada held an open house at the Chatham- Kent Public Library Saturday. Naseer Mirza, a businessman from Brampton, participated in the community- reach project “to give people some introduction of Islam.” Mirza emigrated to Canada about […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims
Relegion and Ethics: KIM LAWTON (Correspondent): In New York’s Times Square, it was an unexpected sight: Nestled amid ads for rum and hit TV shows, a sign proclaiming that Muslims […]
Doubt Cast on Threat That Deterred Rushdie
Source: The New York Times JAIPUR, India — At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called “the greatest literary show on earth,” the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event. A free-speech […]
Yet Another Reminder That Democracy Is An Illusion
January 23, 2012 Santiago, Chile With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was. The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an FBI anti-piracy warning. Its founder, […]
These States Will Lose Billions If Their Illegal Immigrants Are Deported
Unauthorized immigrants made up 5.2% (about 8 million) of the U.S. workforce in 2010, according to a report from the American Immigration Council’s Strength In Diversity report. The same year, the American Immigration Council and American Progress estimated that deporting all unauthorized immigrants from the country and sealing the borders to future unauthorized immigration would “reduce […]
Australia’s Richest Person Wants To Split The Country In Half
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, is back in the news for doubling her personal fortune to more than $20 billion last week — a move that brings her closer to becoming the world’s wealthiest woman. But Rinehart, who hates the attention her fast-growing wealth has garnered, isn’t your usual, polished billionaire (a […]
Meet The People Stockpiling Food, Water And Guns Just In Case
This post originally appeared at The Blaze. The world’s a scary place. Wars, famines, corrupt politicians, terrorism, imploding economies — the list goes on. There are plenty of issues worth fearing, which is why a subset of the nation is preparing for what they see as impending calamity. These individuals, dubbed “preppers,” […]
The threat within
REPORTS of an attempted coup in Bangladesh by serving and retired military officials in connivance with a banned Islamist group, Hizbut Tahrir, having been foiled by Bangladeshi authorities over the weekend is a reminder of the potentially catastrophic nexus between radical Islam and the armed forces in Pakistan too. The […]
France returns 20 Maori heads to New Zealand
Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a […]
Europe gets tough
Iran’s ayatollahs need to understand that if they persist with the illegal enrichment of uranium, their country will pay a heavy price. Yesterday’s decision by European Union foreign ministers to […]
Astronauts safe from Solar Storm Radiation
Source: Space.com. This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT on Jan. 23, 2012… just 4 days after a previous strong CME that sparked aurora around the world on the 22nd. More geomagnetic activity is expected for the 24th. […]
Parents should lead by examples
By Laiq Ahmad Atif Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta “The mother’s lap is the first school for every child”. And in fact, it is the woman as mother who is […]
Doubt Cast on Threat That Deterred Rushdie
Source: The New York Times JAIPUR, India — At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called “the greatest literary show on earth,” the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event. […]
What Pakistan should learn from Bangladesh!
Source: Znews, Times of Assam and Euraasia Review Bangladesh coup linked to 1971 war Islamist Conspiracy against Bangladesh Government – Bangladesh Army Hizbut-Tahrir ( HT) Steps Up Attempts To Subvert Bangladesh Army – Analysis The above news should be a wake up call for Pakistan as much as it is […]