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Islam Shines In Russian Culture: Putin
Source: OnIslam BASHKORTOSTAN – Appealing to the Muslim minority, Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Muslims as ‘vital’ component in the country’s diverse and rich society during his visit to…
Russia not interested in tensions between West and Muslim world – Putin
Source: Voice of Russia Voices of Russian Muslim figures should sound louder on an international level as well as in the global Muslim community, Putin said at a meeting of…
Ahmadi Muslims participate in 18th annual Upland Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
Six members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, including Imam Shamshad A. Nasir of the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino, attended the 18th annual Upland Interfaith Prayer Breakfast on Oct. 23rd.…
NSA eavesdropped on 35 world leaders
dawn: WASHINGTON: US spies eavesdropped on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after White House, Pentagon and State Department officials gave them the numbers, The Guardian reported on Thursday.…
Bangladesh government’s religious body targets Nobel winner Yunus
Dawn: DHAKA: After being accused of “sucking blood” from the poor, Bangladesh’s only Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus faces a new state-backed hate campaign seeking to paint him as unIslamic and…
Hopes for Syria peace meet fade as rebels dig in heels
DAMASCUS: Prospects for a Syria peace conference in Geneva next month looked dim Wednesday after key opposition leaders spurned efforts by Western and Arab powers to persuade them to attend.…
On top of the secret empire can be a bureaucratic nightmare
STORY SUMMARY James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, is not your sleek, button-down spy chief. Clapper has recently taken steps that forced the NSA to accept greater transparency and…
INDIAN TEEN KILLS HERSELF OVER FACEBOOK BAN
POLICE IN MAHARASHTRA STATE ARE EXAMINING A SUICIDE NOTE FOUND NEXT TO AISHWARYA DAHIWAL’S BODY. A 17-year-old committed suicide in western India after her parents told her she had to…
Pakistan: Growing polio cases: KP Governor fears travel ban on Pakistanis
Dawn.com: PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shaukatullah Khan on Thursday feared that Pakistanis could face travel restrictions over the growing polio cases in the country. “If the situation (high polio incidence)…
Ahmadiyya Khilafat centenary postal stamps 1908-2008
Here are some stamps issued on the occasion of Khilafat centenary 1908-2008, by US and Canadian governments. Bottom stamps issued by Canadian government some 10 years ago, to celebrate the…
Europe falls out of love with Obama
Source; CNN (CNN) – On July 24, 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed tens of thousands of Germans on the avenue that leads from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In a…
Paris also snoops on US, says ex-French spy boss
France24. France spies on the US just as the US spies on France, the former head of France’s counter-espionage and counter-terrorism agency said Friday, commenting on reports that the US National…
Tobaski Message By Emir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Baba F. Trawally
Source: All Africa.Com via Wasim Sr: Muslims across the country will insha Allah celebrate the Eidul Adhia on Tuesday 15th October 2013. Allah the Almighty has once again avail us…
SPECIAL RECEPTION TO MARK OPENING OF MASROOR MOSQUE TAKES PLACE IN BRISBANE
Source: Press AMJ International: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says the new Mosque will be a source of peace for all people On 23 October 2013, the World Head of…
Thousands of Yogyakartans Greet Newlywed Royal Couple
The Jakarta Post: Thousands of onlookers filled Jl. Malioboro in Yogyakarta on Wednesday hoping to catch a glimpse of the newlywed royal couple Gusti Kanjeng Ratu (GKR) Hayu and Kanjeng…
Women ‘better at multitasking’ than men, study finds
BBC: It’s not a myth – women really are better than men at multitasking, at least in certain cases, a study says. Men were slower and less organised than women…
Switzerland: SVP Voters narrowly back immigration quotas: poll
A plan to reimpose immigration quotas in Switzerland and give existing residents an advantage in the job market could pass in a plebiscite next February, an opinion poll shows. Fifty-two…
Hamburg Unrest: One City, Two Sides, Thousands of Refugees
by Spiegel staff The city of Hamburg continues to be rocked by protests over the treatment of thousands of asylum seekers. Both sides of the conflict have valid points —…
eDigest: How Islam has Influenced Christian understanding of God
How Islam has Influenced Christian understanding of God Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD When Baylor University researchers asked their 1700 participants about what they think God looks…
Naypyidaw must fight religious violence, says UN
It is always the same pattern. A few days ahead of time, there are rumors about which mosques will be hit. Then, on the evening it happens, there is a…
Computer Virus Spreading That Means You Never Get To See Your Files Again
Forbes: by James Lyne – This kind of malware is now all over the web and your chances of running in to it and being exploited are uncomfortably high. Some…
Pakistan’s Women Police Fight Criminals, Militants And Scorn At Home
Huff Post: by Katharine Houreld – ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan Oct 21 (Reuters) – When Shazadi Gillani, the highest ranking female police officer in Pakistan’s most conservative province, wanted to join the…
Muslim Leader Arrives in Brisbane to inaugurate a New Mosque: Baitul Masroor Mosque
alislam: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Brisbane on 22 October 2013 after a short flight from Sydney to…
Putin: Radical Islamist groups used to stir up ‘foreign-managed conflicts’
Russia Today: The Russian President has said the country’s Muslim leaders together with state authorities must counter the modern tendency of bringing politics into religion and making it radical. “Some…
10 Facts About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape
Huff Post: The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted acomprehensive demographic study of over 230 countries and territories in 2012, and some of their results might surprise you.…
Pakistan: Ahmadi man shot and injured in Karachi listed in fair condition
Ahmadiyya Times : An Ahmadi man is shot and injured in Orangi Town area of Karachi, in the southern province of Sind, Pakistan. Victim, identified as Syes Naseer Alam Shah, was…
US ambassador in Germany summoned in Merkel mobile row
Source: BBC Germany has summoned the US ambassador in Berlin over claims that the US monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will meet US envoy…
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As we are seeing in neighbouring Libya, where the British ambassador recently survived an assassination attempt by al-Qaeda-related militants, the hardline Islamists in Egypt demand nothing less than the creation of a full-blown Islamist state. And when that happens there will be many in the West who will rue the day, just as we did following the overthrow of the Shah in Tehran, that?Britain and America backed the overthrow of?Egypt’s pro-Western president, Hosni Mubarak.