Dawn: DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired live rounds on Sunday in clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least three protesters and injuring dozens. Eighteen of the injured suffered bullet wounds in the unrest at Singair in the central district of Manikganj, as the […]
By Matthew Green KARACHI (Reuters) – When Aurangzeb Farooqi survived an attempt on his life that left six of his bodyguards dead and a six-inch bullet wound in his thigh, […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 24 February 2013 WASHINGTON: The United States has deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali, a US defense official said Friday. The unarmed robotic aircraft are flying out of Niamey at a base with a […]
signatures were collected during a one-day campaign organised in cooperation with Drs. And More coalition, to reach the highest number of potential donors in the world at the time, noting […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | Feb 23, 2013 | 22:55 MAFRAQ — While hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence in their country arrive at the Zaatari Refugee Camp daily, some camp residents want to return to their homeland for various reasons. Several Syrians interviewed by The Jordan Times last week complained […]
Source: Huff Post, LONDON — Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric said Friday. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the requirement for priestly celibacy is “not of divine origin” and could be reconsidered. He […]
Source: RT. Some critics are saying that Hollande is a strange choice for peace award, as he is currently engaged in a military conflict. “Having assessed the dangers and the repercussions of the situation on Africa, and on Mali in particular, the jury appreciated the solidarity shown by France to […]
Source: Rice, by Jeff Falk. A rare intrafaith dialogue on Islam had the Asia Society Texas Center’s Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater packed to the last seat Feb. 21. The event featured four imams representing the Ahmadiyya, African-American, Shia and Sunni traditions of Islam and was co-hosted by Rice University’s […]
http://www.globalpost.com/photo-galleries/5710071/women-rule-18-female-leaders-worldwide-photos (PHOTOS): Women rule: 18 female leaders worldwide (PHOTOS)
Embrace moderate Muslim leaders Ynet News: The delegates to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations deserve our united applause for travelling to Paris last week to express […]
Source/Credit: Huffington Post: By Faheem Younus Sen. Mitch McConnell is guilty on both counts: What he believed to be news was a joke, and what he missed was the real news. […]
APA: As a part of the campaign “Towards Karabakh – the voice of Allah and our truth”, Azan has been resumed and the first Azan sounded in Chemenli village of […]
The Jakarta Globe: A 75-year-old man in Aceh has filed a controversial lawsuit against local religious officials alleging that the noise from a nearby mosque’s six loudspeakers has negatively impacted […]
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1910: ************ ********* ************ The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the […]
Epigraph: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and in that which has been revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the […]
t Interview with Amina Wadud”Islam Belongs to All Its Believers” Amina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Koran exegesis. In 2005, she led Friday prayers in the US, which not only broke with tradition, it also triggered debate and Muslim juristic discourse on the […]
MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent A teenager from Navan who joined rebels in Syria last year without his parents’ knowledge has been killed as fighting between the Assad regime and […]
Synopsis of Friday Sermon (22-Feb-13) prepared by Sister Shermeen Butt Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih said that he had in mind to deliver today’s sermon with reference to the Musleh Maud prophecy. He felt that we usually present the prophecy and mention the achievement of Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased […]
Nadeem F. Paracha DAWN.COM Between the 1950s and early 1970s, a powerful ideology in the Muslim world galvanised itself from the minds and fringes of modern Islamic intellectualism and made its way into the mainstream political arena. But this ideology did not have a single originator. Its roots can be […]