Islam for Human Service: Humanity First and Sandy
Twitter.com: One of the first to be on the scene, Humanity First USA, serves the hungry victims of Sandy. Please remember them in Prayers See Source: #HumanityFirst volunteers cooking and […]
The secular Jinnah
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani Apparently, ‘secular’ is some sort of a bad word and anyone using this word in connection with Quaid-e-Azam is automatically a traitor Our Urdu press, conspiratorial, nationalist and rightwing, is full of nazriati (ideological) warriors. This article is a rebuttal of two of the most popular standard-bearers […]
Forbidden Faith. Dawn.com
File Photo Two years ago on May 28, eighty-six members of the Ahmadiyya community were massacred in their places of worship in Lahore, during the Friday congregation. Since then, an all-out war seems to have been declared against them with the oppressors becoming more vitriolic and aggressive. “Since the extremists […]
Picture of the Day- Spider webs
Spider Webs on Trees During 2011 Floods in Sindh
A Surprise Step by Bank Of Japan
Business Insider: Over the past few weeks, there’s been a growing buzz about central banks playing a greater role in explicitly serving as funders of government. The idea that people (journalists and Wall Streeters, mostly) have been talking about is the notion that central banks could buy government debt (as […]
Philippines grapples with cost of economic success
Philippine News: An inflow of capital has pushed up the peso that threatens asset price bubbles Reforms pushed through by President Benigno Aquino have put the Philippines back on the map for international investors but authorities are struggling to control an inflow of capital that has pushed up the currency […]
Malicious intent
Humanist: by Beena Sarwar. Those calling for a global blasphemy law should heed the lessons from Pakistan In Pakistan a democratically elected but weak government struggles to hold on to power against tremendous odds. If, despite the challenges, it completes its tenure and makes it to the next election it […]
Your Coping Mechanism towards Information Explosion: The Muslim Times!
In this age of information and its explosion, you will be taken for a ride, if you do not keep abreast with the latest, the best and most accurate information. You will be taken for a ride not only by the ordinary con artists but also by journalists, politicians and even the so called religious scholars. Try the […]
Gay Pakistanis seek acceptance
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/world/asia/gays-in-pakistan-move-cautiously-to-gain-acceptance.html?ref=todayspaper LAHORE, Pakistan — The group meets irregularly in a simple building among a row of shops here that close in the evening. Drapes cover the windows. Sometimes members watch movies or read poetry. Occasionally, they give a party, dance and drink and let off steam. Related Times Topic: Homosexuality […]
From Jesus to Muhammad (1 of 8)
Dr. Dirks is a Sunni Muslim, his views about crucifixion are in keeping with his identity, but, rest of his scholarship, can be very helpful to Ahmadi Muslims studying Christianity. In the book, The Cross and The Crescent, Dr. Dirks, a former ordained minister (deacon) in the United Methodist Church, […]
Jerusalem Mayor: Let Jews pray on Temple Mount
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
Trouble in paradise as radical Islam grows in Zanzibar
By Abdallah Bawazir The rising tide of radical Islamism has sparked growing unrest on the idyllic islands of Zanzibar. Daniel Howden reports from Stone Town. Workmen are raising the walls around the Assemblies of God Church on the outskirts of Zanzibar’s Stone Town. Sweating in the heat and humidity, they […]
Public Meeting on World Religious Figures Held in Calicut Kerala
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
Travel Writing – Fiji: Fish swim past the see side
(Here is a great Travel writing piece by Anton Denise as he vacationed in Fiji) Fiji: Fish swim past the see side by: Anthony Dennis From: escape The infinity edge swimming pool at Likuliku. Picture: Anthony Dennis I’VE just had a close shave with a school of Bleeker’s parrotfish. Or was it Schlegel’s parrotfish? […]
Abūʾl-Wafā Būzjānī: An Equal of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes
Why is he equal to Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes? I do not say it but George Sarton says it! George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian chemist and historian who […]
Switzerland: Mountain villages look for a workable future
by Julia Slater in Poschiavo, swissinfo.ch “A bejewelled crescent at the heart of a continent” is how a booklet issued by the eight-nation Alpine Convention describes the Alps. Beautiful, certainly […]
Seminar on Islamic Ummah: Sultan Ali Saifudien Center
SOASCIS, IKIM To Hold Joint Seminar On Islamic Ummah Credit: The BorneoPost . ovember 4, 2012, Sunday BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies (SOASCIS), UBD will be collaborating with the Institute of Islamic Understanding of Malaysia (IKIM) to hold a joint seminar on November 8, […]
New Coptic pope chosen in elaborate ceremony
EGYPT’S ancient Coptic Christian church chose a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God, in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of […]
Family blames hospital and province for death of Vaughan woman
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1280585–family-blames-hospital-and-province-for-death-of-vaughan-woman Family blames hospital and province for death of Vaughan woman Amey Dempsey, Toronto staff Reporter Published on Thursday November 01, 2012 Amy Dempsey Staff Reporter One Sunday two years ago, Laiq and Badrunnisa Khurshid set out for a midnight stroll. The couple walked hand in hand through their suburban […]
Former Trinitarian Christians discuss why they REJECTED the doctrine of the Trinity!
Sir Anthony Buzzard has a very well written and useful book The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound. In his debates Buzzard highlights that God the Father is mentioned more than 1300 times in the New Testament and Jesus is mentioned as Messiah more than 500 times in the New […]