His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad: the Worldwide Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Radio Australia: Ahmadiyya leader concerned over the sect’s persecution in Pakistan
abc.net.au: The global head of the Ahmaddiya Islamic community is hoping his visit to Australia will help highlight the persecution his followers face in his home country Pakistan. Mirza Masroor…
‘He (Maududi) never let us read his books’ Confessions of Farooq Maududi
Recalls Farooq Maududi, son of Abul A’la Maududi Tamanna Khan and Jamil Mahmud the daily star: Brought up under the shadows of Syed Abul A’la Maududi, preacher of Sharia-based state in the subcontinent against secular…
Message of Ahamdiyyat Attractive to All: Khalifa of Islam in Sydney
Alislam-egazette: HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMAAT Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad conducts media interviews in Sydney During the first week of his second tour of Australia, the World Head of…
Best 9/11 video – Full movie
Please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU961SGps8g…
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MIKE McINTIRE THE NEW YORK TIMES October 5, 2013 WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists…
The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, BBC Two, review
A review of the first episode of BBC Two’s The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which traces the 600-year-old story of the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (BBC Two)…
The media’s double standard on child victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Annie Robbins on October 6, 2013 MONDOWEISS.NET This post is about 2 children, each violently attacked recently and each victims of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Below is a photo of 6-year-old…
Did Prophet Muhammad kill 700 Jews?
Source: Muhammad Fact Check This is perhaps one of the most common contemporary allegations levied against Prophet Muhammad [1]. It is also one of the most spurious. This event occurred…
Typhoon Fitow hits eastern China after mass evacuation
Typhoon Fitow – named after a flower – made landfall at 01:15 local time on Monday BBC: Powerful Typhoon Fitow has made landfall in eastern China after triggering the evacuation…
Exiled writer, educator Dr Daud Rahbar passed away in Florida
By Mehmud Ahmad, Brampton, Ontario Dr Daud Rehbar, an academic, thinker, writer, poet,musician and author of renown in the 64th year of his exile from Pakistan in a Nursing Home…
eDigest: President Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will…
Video: Extremism in Pakistan
Dunya TV: Critics criticize Extremism in Pakistan in On the Front with Kamran Shahid …
Madonna studying Quran
The Nation: LOS ANGELES – US pop icon Madonna is studying the Holy Quran these days, she revealed in an article published Friday. “I am building schools for girls in…
50 Amazing Mosques From Around The World (PHOTOS)
The Huffington Post: Many of these incredible houses of worship defy typical expectations about what a mosque looks like. Nontraditional minarets and experimental domes add variety, and showcase the massive…
Oktoberfest drinkers treated every 10 minutes
Source: The Local Munich hospitals treat a drinker every 10 minutes during Oktoberfest. This time of year the city’s accident and emergency departments become, for some, just another tent at…
Publishing start-ups crowd Frankfurt book fair
Source: The Local A rush of publishing start-ups and ever new ways to lure readers in an industry with Amazon breathing down its neck will be a central theme at…
Understanding Egyptian manners
Samia Abdennour reviews some Egyptian manners that may present pitfalls to unwary visitors from abroad A Western acquaintance of mine once had the misfortune of committing a serious faux-pas according…
Towards a Third Intifada?
As Israel continues its encroachments on Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, Palestine watchers are beginning to predict a Third Intifada, Until only a few years ago, anti-Israeli demonstrations rocked student…
The future of the Free Syrian Army
We examine the shifting alliances within the opposition and the likely impact on achieving stability in Syria. Inside Syria Aljazeera On September 24, thirteen of the most powerful rebel groups…
The War in October
Forty years on, Al Jazeera examines three weeks of war from which both Arabs and Israelis claimed to emerge victorious. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat once called it the last war.…
Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi hosts Arab science exhibition
Source: The National By: Hugo Berger | September 19, 2013 An exhibition into the time when Arabic scientific knowledge surpassed the rest of the world is starting next week at the…
A Muslim Prosecutor in Britain, Fighting Forced Marriages and Honor Crimes
LONDON — NAZIR AFZAL’S enemies are a diverse lot. NYTimes Some, like him, are Muslim men who were born in Britain but have roots in Pakistan or other South Asian…
Human chain formed to protect Christians during Lahore mass
LAHORE: The Muslim and Christian communities came together in a show of solidarity in Lahore, Express News reported Sunday. Hand in hand as many as 200 people formed a human…
Olympic torch arrives in Moscow, blazing a trail in record breaking relay
Russia Today: A jet with the Olympic torch onboard has arrived from Athens and landed at Moscow Vnukovo airport. The flame will now be taken to Red Square for a…
Maudoodi’s son: Jamaat has no right to do politics in Bangladesh
Dhaka Tribune via Abdul Awwal: Syed Haider Farooq Maudoodi believes the religion-based party should not be allowed to continue politics in Bangladesh as it opposed the country’s birth. THE FULL…
Our Founding Fathers included Islam
Excerpted from “Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an” [He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.”? — Thomas…
List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population is located in Europe Europe EU laea location map.svg Islam is the fastest-growing religion in…
Sydney, Australia: Australians accept Islam Ahmadiyyat at the hands of World Muslim Leader
Published on Oct 5, 2013…
“I had five sons, now I have four”: Syria’s senior cleric pardons the rebels who killed his son The Grand Mufti of Syria preaches a message of forgiveness
‘I met those men who assassinated my own son – and they told me they didn’t even know whom they were killing.” Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of…
Manmohan Singh may be talking peace with the wrong partner; so may Nawaz Sharif
Source: The Economist: THE first law of diplomacy, one late British foreign-office mandarin used to quip, is that “It is not the other side you need to worry about, but…
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