Dawn.com: by Nadeem F. Paracha. In 1973, my paternal grandparents visited Makkah to perform the first of their two Hajj pilgrimages. With them were two of my grandmother’s sisters and their respective husbands. Upon reaching Jeddah, they hailed a taxi from the airport and headed for their designated hotel. The driver […]
by Christian Raaflaub, swissinfo.ch July 31, 2013 – A few months ago it was announced that Swiss universities would start training imams. Antonio Loprieno, leader of a working group on the issue, tells swissinfo.ch he hopes such a course will contribute to the debate about Islam in Switzerland. Muslims around […]
The trend of people sleeping in the Grand Mosque has been increasing each year, despite religious scholars declaring such an occurrence as a violation of Shariah. It is not merely […]
• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA’s XKeyscore […]
Asif Haroon Raja PAKISTAN OBSERVER Thursday, August 01, 2013 – The unholy practice of Muslims fighting among each other is in vogue in many Muslim countries. Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had got infected by the Arab Spring in 2011, possibly triggered by CIA and […]
KEN MCGREGOR From: Weekly Times Inner City August 01, 2013 THE AUSTRALIAN NEWS ONE of the west’s best known Italian clubs will be turned into a mosque under a plan […]
Source: The Guardian, UK BY Julien Bouissou July 30, 2013 Passersby cast wary looks at a bunch of men lurking outside the entrance to the Hathazari madrasa. They stand out, having neither beards nor traditional dress. Indeed, one of them has had the bright idea of wearing a flowered shirt. For […]
Britain’s first Muslim MP, Mohammed Sarwar, has renounced his British citizenship to become the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Sarwar, a close aide of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz […]
Source: papers.ssrn.com Singapore is a secular state with a Muslim minority (about 15 per cent, mostly ethnic Malay). However, the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA), which governs personal status, does […]
Source: onislam.net Malawi (southeast Africa): Reaching out to the Muslim community, Malawi President Joyce Banda has hosted a special iftar for Muslim women to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, urging Malawi […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Cavan Sieczkowski Televangelist Pat Robertson is not a fan of demons, so much so that he says if one of those ungodly creatures was haunting […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/04/05/pkg-jamjoom-saudi-blogger-family.cnn&contentId=world/2013/04/05/pkg-jamjoom-saudi-blogger-family.cnn By Ed Payne and Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN (CNN) — A Saudi court has sentenced a activist to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for violating the nation’s anti-cybercrime law, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday. A Jeddah Criminal Court found Raif Badawi, who has been in prison since June […]
(Reuters) – U.S. economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in the second quarter, laying a firmer foundation for the rest of the year that could bring the Federal Reserve a step closer to cutting back its monetary stimulus. Gross domestic product grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said […]
source: healthymanners.com What is Cancer? The “Cancer” is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. The cells grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the body through the lymphatic system or […]
Source:Morocco World News via Wasim Sr. To the people, Leila is a blind girl. The light she used to see has turned into darkness. Her room, as everything else in her new world, has one color: black.The colors disappeared from the dictionary of her sight. All colors are one color: […]
Source: The Local: One third of all marriages in Germany will end in divorce, new statistics show. Yet those couples who do so now wait longer than they used to before throwing in the towel. One in three German marriages will end in divorce, according to statistics released by the […]
Source: The Local: Schools can separate girls and boys for sports lessons, a court in Berlin said on Tuesday. The ruling rejects a complaint from parents who said separate lessons were sexist discrimination. More:
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar In a show trial/kangaroo court with an American twist, worthy of the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China, Bradley Manning was predictably found guilty of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act. More:
Source: Abid Khan, Press Secretary AMJ International: Despite hope of change arising out of Pakistan’s general elections, Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslims remain subjected to sustained and serious oppression because of their faith. In this edition, we report on four attempted murders, an attempted kidnapping of a nine year old Ahmadi Muslim […]
Source:CNN “I was really shocked at first. I couldn’t believe we were being given this baby girl,” said Suriya Bilqees, now a mother of a two-week old. “I was extremely happy.”Another baby, a boy, is due to be given to another couple at some point in the coming days.The show’s […]