Jerusalem patriarch condemns vandalism of monastery
Petra | Dec 13, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem on Thursday condemned an attack on Jerusalem’s Monastery of the Cross by Jewish extremists, the […]
Jordanian tapped to lead jihadist forces in Syria
by Taylor Luck | Dec 13, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A Jordanian national has been tapped to lead jihadist forces in Syria, Islamist sources unveiled on Thursday. According to a Syrian Islamist source, the Jabhat Al Nusra Li Ahl Al Sham coalition has named Mustafa Abdul Latif Al […]
How Japan Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
Businessinsider.com: I’ve heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city’s largest, the […]
Prayers in An Ahmadi Mosque by a Sunni Muslim
By Nasir Gondal MD Unless one came to the United States in the last five years, it is hard to think that one does not know about Shaheen Sweets. It started […]
Ahmadi Muslims in UK call for urgent action against hate
Guardian: Members of a Muslim sect persecuted in Pakistan have called for action to prevent groups from peddling hate against them in the UK. The Ahmadiyya community in the UK […]
Nurse guilty of circumcision death
A nurse has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a four-week-old baby who bled to death after a botched home circumcision. Goodluck Caubergs died the day after Grace Adeleye carried out the procedure without anaesthetic and using only a pair of scissors, forceps and olive oil, a trial at […]
Attack on Afghanistan spy chief planned in Pakistan – ‘It was an absolutely professional attack’
Source: Kuwait Times KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday a suicide attack that wounded the country’s spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad. The president did not openly blame Pakistan over the attack on Asadullah Khalid in Kabul on Thursday […]
Baloch people are facing state genocidal policies on their own land: BHRO
Posted on 2012-12-11 ( 496 reads ) Quetta : Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) staged simultaneous protest rallies in front of Quetta Press club and Arts council Karachi on International Day for Human Rights on Monday. A large number of Baloch women and children participated in the protest to urge […]
Understanding How Children Develop Empathy
HealthNews, NewYork Times: The mother was trying to hold the baby still, and I was pulling gently on the ear, angling for a better look at the infant’s eardrum. The wriggling baby didn’t like any of it, and her whimpering quickly turned to full-fledged wails. Suddenly the baby’s 3-year-old brother, […]
In Pakistan, you must be Muslim to have a monument named after you
Express Tribune: Noman Ansari. How far does religious background, rather than actual character, go towards establishing respect in this country? The news that the plans to rename the Shadman Chowk roundabout in Lahore after historically instrumental freedom fighter Bhagat Singh have been scrapped isn’t surprising, considering the rising level of intolerance in our nation. […]
Every Child is Precious and Every Human Life is Sacred
Epigraph: The Holy Quran equates killing of any innocent human to a genocide, to a holocaust, “We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — […]
25 People Dead, Mostly Children, at Connecticut Elementary School Shooting, in USA
Source Yahoo News More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC […]
Ahmadi shot dead in Quetta was a decent man
Mr Maqsood Ahmad son of Nawab Din shot dead in Quetta on December 7, 2012 was a decent man. On December 7 at 9am he arrived at his hardware store in satellite town along with his employee. after dropping off the employee at the store he took his two children […]
The trial of the birth of a nation
Source: The Economist BANGLADESH suffered a violent birth. In the last days of 1971 the country then called East Pakistan was engulfed by torture, rape, mass-killing and other acts of genocide. The main perpetrators were Pakistani troops bent on preventing secession from “West Pakistan”. But the army had the support […]
Indonesia: Religious ministry rejects wedding services for Ahmadi citizens
—– If Ahmadiyya community members want wedding services, they must be converted to Islam. If they insist they don’t want to convert to Islam, a marriage registration service will not […]
Muslims may not put up stockings and Christmas lights but they Celebrate Jesus year around
Muslims Celebrate Jesus year around Source: The North Country Times: By Monsura Sirajee Temecula We may not put up stockings and Christmas lights in my house during the holiday season, […]
Another Hate Crime on its way
Extreme anti-Islam posters to cover New York subway stations next week The National Post: Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17. The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, […]
Justin Trudeau defends his decision to attend Islamic conference sponsored by organization linked to Hamas
The National Post: The Liberals came under fire on Wednesday over Justin Trudeau’s participation in an Islamic conference whose sponsor was stripped of its federal charity status last year for […]
‘Changing America’ exhibit explores America’s press for freedom for blacks
Washington Post: By Lonnae O’Neal Parker Beyond the unifying symmetry of the numbers, what binds and animates the new “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963” […]
European rights court takes CIA to task on rendition in landmark ruling
The European Court of Human Rights Global Post: The European Court of Human Rights made history Thursday by ruling in favor of a Lebanese national who said he was tortured by a […]