July 16, 2013 – 22:08 Asylum requests in Switzerland fell by almost by a third during the first six months of the year when compared with figures for the same period of 2012. Officials are at a loss to explain why, but do not expect the trend to continue. Between […]
STORY SUMMARY Kurdish fighters expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, activists said Wednesday, in escalating fighting that could signal another front in Syria’s fractious civil war.Kurdish fighters took total control of Ras al-Ain “after 24 hours of fighting. […]
STORY SUMMARY One of the worst recurring features of U.S. foreign policy is a process that might bluntly be described as “seduction and abandonment”. On June 13, the White House announced it would provide military aid to the Syrian opposition because the Assad regime had crossed a “red line” by […]
Epigraph: Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. O ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace. (Al Quran 33:57) EDDAH: P.K. ABDUL […]
AFP | Jul 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee for UN envoy Wednesday slammed the global body’s “unacceptable bias” against Israel, and pledged to lobby hard to get America’s closest Mideast ally a seat on the Security Council. Even as detractors criticise her past statements […]
Well this is a pretty sweet deal. Pope Francis has offered a reward to people who follow a Catholic youth event on Twitter and other social media sites: a lightening of penalties for […]
thedailybeast: Israel has now struck inside Syria three times since the civil war there began in 2011, report Josh Rogin and Eli Lake. The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Israeli jets bombed a Hezbollah weapons depot containing advanced Russian weaponry inside Syria earlier this month. Israeli soldiers stand by a […]
USCIRF 2013 Fact Sheet Pakistan: : Imporant to note that due to large number of Shias the number shot dead is proportionaly much lower while of Ahmadiyya Muslims who are […]
Aljazeera: Pope Francis will be in Brazil starting on Monday, the start of an ambitious, week-long visit coinciding with World Youth Day events, expected to bring over a million Catholic pilgrims, mostly youth, to Brazil. It will be historic for all the obvious reasons: The first Latin American Pope, the […]
Source: The Huffington Post: By Diana Bletter: Writer, Author, ‘The Mom Who Took Off On Her Motorcycle’ Guess who graduated first in this year’s medical school class at the Technion, Israel’s version […]
Standard-freeholder.com: Asfand Suleman Ahmad has come to Cornwall to spread his message of peace as missionary to the local Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Suleman Ahmad, a theology major who spent seven […]
This video is from 2012, is in Punjabi language, where in Lal Khan Malik, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Canada, is introducing Ahmadityyat: True Islam, on Harpreet Singh Show:
CLAIM OF BAHĀ`ULLĀH PROPHETHOOD OR GODHOOD? By Ansar Raza, Missionary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, Canada Email: ansar58@gmail.com Introduction Among the strongest arguments favoring the truthfulness of the Promised Messiahas, the founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and similarly of every Prophet and Messenger, is that a false Prophet or false claimant of […]
It was the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Bosnian War in the 1990s. Today’s superpowers are fighting in Syria, but lets be in no doubt as to their motivations So there was Malcolm Rifkind, harrumphing away on Newsnight last week about the need to arm the brave […]
STORY SUMMARY Iran’s president-elect has sent messages to Syria’s Bashar Assad reaffirming support for his ally. Iran also said Tuesday it would welcome cease-fire between rebel forces and the Syrian government during the holy month of Ramadan and reiterated that a national dialogue was the only way to resolve the […]
According to Haaretz, 15 July 2013, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has backtracked on the issue regarding the delivery of weapons to the “rebels” in Syria [1]. Concerned about the consequences of a victory at the hands of the Assad government—backed by Hezbollah and Iran—and following the unrest in the […]
Collection of news items from Dhaka regarding Opposition protests for ICT verdict on Jamat e Islami leaders. Could Bangladesh protests upend the government? (+video) Christian Science Monitor Protests continued for a second day in Bangladesh after a war crimes tribunal investigating the country’s 1971 war of independence sentenced a top Islamist politician to […]
Source: The Telegraph Britain may need millions more immigrants over the next 50 years to reduce the “unsustainable” pressure that the ageing population is putting on the economy, the official forecaster has said. By Steven Swinford, Senior Political Correspondent 1:19PM BST 17 Jul 2013 The Office for Budget Responsibility said that spending […]
Source: theglobeandmail.com It was fitting indeed that Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations during the first third of Ramadan. The month’s first 10 days are regarded as the days of God’s […]
Source: rferl.org Mohammad Nourizad, a former hard-line conservative columnist turned dissident, kissed the feet of a 4-year-old Baha’i boy named Artin. Nourizad posted a photo of the scene on his blog along with […]