Saqib Zervi’s “The Lahore” under siege by Mullahs to get “God’s Blessings”
ET: LAHORE: The vigilante siege of an office on Turner Road, where a weekly magazine owned by an Ahmadi family is produced, has not been lifted two months after it […]
US says it will give military aid to Syria rebels
The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give details about the […]
Forgiveness: The mark of a Muslim
IBN TAYMIYYAH ARABNEWS Friday 14 June 2013 Allah the Most High, said: “But if we let man taste the good favors after poverty and harm have touched him, he is […]
Saudi Arabia: 3 million expatriates face redundancy
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Friday 14 June 2013 ARABNEWS Private companies who have not legalized the work status of their expatriate employees are planning to lay them off due to fears of expected raids by labor authorities. Some 3 million expatriate workers are threatened with redundancy. Many of these companies do […]
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Video Gamers Really Do See More
ScienceDaily: Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers. “Gamers see the world differently,” said Greg Appelbaum, an […]
Where Atheism Stops And Religion Begins
Huff Post: by Andrew Schwartz. Many of my friends who have transitioned from being religious to being atheists speak of the deep existential peace that it gives them. This is huge and nothing to be argued with. Anyone who has found themselves on the despair side of Sisyphean struggle knows […]
Caliph Umar Farooq vs.Emperor Heraclius: Who gave us our Religious Freedoms?
islamforwest.org: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by […]
Mecca: a city losing its spirituality?
Daily Times: The Mecca of today is different from old times, much more business-oriented and driven by money. It looks more like a commercial hotspot instead of a Divine residence Muslims disagree on almost everything. From the timing of their prayers or fasts to insignificant nuptial details, on every issue […]
International Criminal Court rejects Investigation of Pope Benedict for Clergy Sex Abuse
Huff Post: NEW YORK — The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican cardinals for possible […]
End of Racism in USA, White children nearly a minority, says US census
Muslim Time’s Editor’s comment: Headline has been partially modified by us. Source: BBC For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a […]
UN welcomes warming of Kuwaiti-Iraqi ties
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends first joint meeting with Kuwaitis and Iraqis The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), quoted Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi as saying that the Secretary-General had called […]
Turkish Protesters Get ‘Final’ Warning to Clear Out of Park
Source: NY Times: ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday toughened his stance against demonstrators who continued to occupy a park in central Istanbul just one day after he met with leaders of the protest movement for the first time, declaring in a nationally televised speech that the […]
Historic Reception takes place at Houses of Parliament to Celebrate Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat UK Centenary
Source: Press Desk AMJ-UK Deputy Prime Minister, Secretaries of State and Parliamentarians welcome Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to Westminster The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
Tunisian Feminist Leader: ‘Femen, Please Leave Us Alone’
By Raniah Salloum European Femen activists have been sentenced to four months in prison for their topless protest in the Tunisian capital last month. Now the country’s opposition leader, herself […]
Ethiopian parliament votes to strip Egypt of rights to majority of Nile water : Tensions rise between neighbours over £4.7bn Great Renaissance Dam project
Reuters in Addis Ababa guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 June 2013 15.05 BST Ethiopia’s parliament has unanimously ratified a treaty that strips Egypt of its right to the lion’s share of the […]
IAEA reform is long overdue
Source: Asia Times. By Yousaf Butt The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was designed as an apolitical technical agency that – among other things – takes regular accounting of member states’ nuclear material to make sure none is diverted to weapons uses. However, the agency has been veering from its […]
Report: Blood Donation Campaign Organized by Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya Negombo, Sri Lanka
Source: lankaweb.com Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Forum (The Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya) organized a Blood Drive programme on Sunday – 9th June 2013 at Fazl Mosque – 28, Jumma Masjid Mawatha, Periyamulla, Negombo. The programme started at 9.00 am and ended at 3.00 p.m. and was inaugurated by the National President, Sri Lanka […]
Iran: The real cost of sanctions
We look at the impact of increased sanctions against the Islamic Republic and ask who it really affects. The United States has unveiled aggressive new sanctions targeting Iran’s currency and car industry that are among the toughest yet. They are aimed at making Iranian money all but unusable outside the […]
Palestine decries Israel’s new outposts plan Palestinian PM says plans for more than 1,000 new houses in occupied West Bank are ‘killing two-state solution’.
An Israeli settlement push in the occupied West Bank, involving the building of 1,000 new homes in two new settlements, is “killing the two state solution”, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami […]