Huff Post: In his recent article, Sam Harris, a popular critic of Islam, referred to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, as “the best thing to come out of the Muslim […]
We are passing through revolutionary times, with Pope Francis making headlines by his controversial comments. Soon we may see a new Church, which may deny or at least reinterpret its […]
Source: Spiegel International One drank 50 cups of coffee a day, another disappeared to a stone hut in the forest to compose: Many celebrated geniuses have practiced quirky everyday rituals […]
Source: Arab News: Saudi Arabia was one of the founding members of the United Nations in 1945. Since its establishment, Saudi Arabia has been one of the most active members and the one that paid its dues to the world body on time. I got my college degree from a […]
Source: Dawn.Com BEIJING: China and India signed a confidence-building accord Wednesday, to cooperate on border defence following a standoff between armed forces of the two Asian giants in the disputed Himalayan territory earlier this year. The agreement followed a meeting in Beijing between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Indian […]
RFI: French President François Hollande met Laos’s leader Choummaly Sayasone in Paris on Tuesday in the first visit by a Loatian president since the country’s independence from France some 60 years ago. The visit is distinctly low-profile as several NGOs demand news of disappeared Laotian activist Sombath Somphone. The Laotian […]
Source: Spiegel International Lone climbers, stunning weather formations and alpine light grace the images submitted to this year’s International Mountain Summit photo contest. They reveal landscapes accessible only to the […]
Source: Spiegel International Lone climbers, stunning weather formations and alpine light grace the images submitted to this year’s International Mountain Summit photo contest. They reveal landscapes accessible only to the […]
Source: BBC The European Union says it has agreed to resume membership talks with Turkey. The EU’s European affairs ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, said the talks would restart on 5 November, after being stalled for three years. The EU had first agreed to relaunch negotiations in June, but postponed the […]
Bashy Quraishy is a Danish-Pakistani author and consultant regarding minority rights. He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human […]
Bashy Quraishy is a Danish-Pakistani author and consultant regarding minority rights. He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human […]
Source: Morocco World News: MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Islam is one of the significant components of Russian cultural structure. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Islam was one of the significant components of Russian cultural structure. Putin met the muftis of the Russian Muslim Board’s 225 annual […]
Source: press@amjinternational.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has travelled to inaugurate the Baitul Masroor Mosque 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 inaugurate the new Baitul Masroor Mosque. Hazrat Mirza […]
The NewYork Times: by Mark Bittman – Fried food is probably not on anyone’s lists of healthy eats, but you have to start with this: Fat is good for you. The long-lived people of Crete might not drink a glass of olive oil a day, but they consume three times […]
CGAhmadiyya – A non-Ahmadi commentator who is also a big fan of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf recently left the old chanda allegation – implying Ahmadi funding is unaccounted for. It occurred to us, the best way to answer this allegation would be to compare the way Ahmadiyya donations are spent to how his […]
The NewYork Times: by Susan Stellin – The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information. While the agency says that the goal […]
The Express Tribune: by Ayehsa Ijaz Khan – Contrary to many of my peers, I never felt as hopeless or dejected about Pakistan’s future as I did during the past election. Some were hopeful because they saw in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ‘a new political force’ that would take on […]
The idea of being a refugee in your own land is alien to most of us that live in Europe. Yet that is the reality faced by hundreds of thousands […]
Ahlul Bayt News Agency: Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage stated that members of Likud party led by the Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin have proposed a bill to divide […]
RFI France does not want an escalation of the row over US snooping on millions of French citizens’ telephone communications, the government’s spokesperson said Tuesday, after a breakfast meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius. Fabius told Kerry that the snooping, which targeted […]