Iraq: Israel can’t use our airspace for striking Iran
BY PRASHANT RAO ARABNEWS Tuesday 4 June 2013 BAGHDAD: Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a […]
Israel says it has struck deal to resettle Eritrean migrants
Reuters | Jun 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — An unidentified country has agreed to take in Eritrean illegal immigrants living in Israel, according to Israeli court documents. Humanitarian agencies say many of the 60,000 African migrants who have walked into Israel from Egypt should be considered for […]
Jordan: Imams, teachers engaged in effort to promote Amman Message
by Rula Samain | Jun 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslim preachers, both male and female, from all governorates met over three days last week to discuss how best to promote the values enshrined in the Amman Message, which Jordan adopted in 2004 to introduce the true teachings […]
‘My mother and I are married to the same man’
theguardian: by Abigail Haworth. When her widowed mother remarried, Parvin Rema, then 13, was part of the deal – one of several such arrangements in Bangladesh. Abigail Haworth talks to mothers and daughters about a particularly knotty relationship As a child in rural Bangladesh, Orola Dalbot, 30, enjoyed growing up around […]
Condemn Injustice, Not Islam
Huff Post: Qasim Rashid: In her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, atheist and anti-Islam activist Ayan Hirsi Ali finally admits, “In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Woolwich murder, […]
FORUM: Khalifa of Islam on mission to spread good will
Newhaven Register: The news seems to report much about problem leaders of the Muslim world. They include bloodthirsty extremists, fiery Mullahs and unyielding autocrats. Also, throw in the chatter from absolute cynics who can’t believe that a practicing Muslim could possibly live a life of peace. And we are left […]
Who will stand for Ahmadis in Pakistan?
Source: Daily Times Author: Husain Nadim The use of anti-Ahmadi rhetoric by political parties raises a serious question: Is there anyone who will ever stand up for their rights? “It’s almost laughable. You first forcefully declare us a minority, then you promise to protect minority rights, and when you fail, you conveniently […]
Al-Furqan Summer Class 2013 starting from June 6th
Alfurqan administration is honored to announce the start of English Translation Class in Summer of 2013. The details of the class is as follows: Basic Translation of the Holy Qur’an […]
Tony Blair Says ‘There Is A Problem Within Islam’ After Woolwich Attack
The Huffington Post | By Cavan Sieczkowski Posted: 06/03/2013 2:40 pm EDT In a column for the Daily Mail, former British prime minister Tony Blair stated “there is a problem within […]
USA 1988: Back when Senate was independent on Israel Frank Lautenberg and 29 other Sens. condemned its gov
SENATORS CRITICIZE SHAMIR’S POSITION ON MIDEAST PEACE (Interesting look at history – not all that long ago and still the same). By NEIL A. LEWIS, Special to the New York Times Published: March 06, 1988 Thirty United States Senators, including many of Israel’s staunchest supporters, have written a letter criticizing […]
Beautiful Muslim Women in History
YUSRA OWAIS (AMATULLAH) | JUNE 20, 2012 SubaibWebb.com What comes to your mind when I say, “A beautiful Muslim woman”? Many of us may think of a woman in hijab (headscarf) or modest attire. Hijab is indeed beautiful, but by thinking Islamic beauty is only because of hijab, we are […]
Salih Muslim: World Powers Not Serious About Peace in Syria (a Kurdish view)
Monday, 03 June 2013, 07:50 GMT Source: Kurdish Globe, Erbil, Kurdistan (autonomous region of Iraq) SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Intransigence on the part of both the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and international actors is undermining prospects for a solution to the conflict in Syria, Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-chairman Salih […]
Mortgaged Diplomas
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Current and prospective college students are receiving real-world instruction in the dismal political economy of public finance. Unless Congress can overcome its partisan differences, interest rates on federally guaranteed Stafford loans, an important means of paying for college, […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community celebrates 100 years since first missionary came to UK
Source: Local Guardian This year marks 100 years since the first Ahmadiyya Muslims made the journey from India to settle in the UK.Over the weekend members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held a series of events inviting everybody to celebrate their history.On Sunday a family picnic took place in Figges […]
The Origin of Two Nation Theory: Hindutvavadi leader Sarvarkar And Patel
WAS PARTITION OF INDIA INEVITABLE? by Dr. R. M. Pal ………..It was not Jinnah but the Hindutvavadi leader Sarvarkar who first propounded the two-nation theory. Veer Sarvarkar, while presiding over the 1937 session of the Hindu Mahasabha, said in plain and simple words, advocating the two-nation theory, “ I warn the Hindus […]
Noah’s Ark Theme Park, The Quran or the Bible?
Epigraph: And as to the people of Noah when they rejected the Messengers, We drowned them, and We made them a Sign for mankind. And We have prepared a painful […]
USA: Indonesia’s SBY vows to address religious intolerance upon receiving international award
Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post | Headlines | Sat, June 01 2013, 11:58 AM Strident protests did not deter President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from accepting the World Statesmen Award from New York-based interfaith organization the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) as he vowed to maintain harmony […]
ongoing battle: Switzerland ʻextremely concernedʼ about Syria
June 3, 2013 – SWISSINFO.CH The Swiss foreign ministry has said it is “extremely concerned” about the situation in Syria, particularly the intense fighting in the city of Qusair, and […]
Hezbollah has been lured into unknown territory in Syria as it wages costly battle for survival
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Mohammed Nour is the spokesperson for the Northern Storm Brigade, accused of kidnapping 11 Lebanese pilgrims in Syria “Hezbollah suspects Hamas has been teaching Sunni […]