Slim pickings
Story Summary The news that Carlos Slim, one of the richest people on the planet, is focusing efforts on investing some of his vast fortune in Israel should come as […]
Saudi Arabia: NSHR: Scrap sponsorship system
The National Society for Human Rights has called upon the government to abolish the sponsorship system and recruit foreign workers under a Labor Ministry agency to protect the rights of […]
Restoring The Mausoleum That Helped Inspire The Taj Majal
by Julie McCarthy December 01, 2013 Think Taj Mahal and then try to imagine what came before it. What was the inspiration for that masterpiece? Archaeologists and architects say a […]
A beacon for interfaith peace
In Indonesia, the Nahdlatul Ulama preaches the spirit of brotherhood to maintain peaceful coexistence among the country’s Muslim-majority, diverse ethnic society. THE Global Peace Festival (GPF) Malaysia recently interviewed Dr […]
25 ways to enter Jannah
Source: jamiat.org.za The Arabic word Jannah means simply “Garden” and it refers to the blissful paradise that awaits believers after death. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught that […]
Islam and Thomas Jefferson
During the 1770s Jefferson purchased a number of Arabic texts, which might have given him the desire to learn the Arabic language and could have significantly reinforced his commitment to […]
Swedish Archbishop Abused for Her Tolerance of Islam
loonwatch.com: The first female archbishop of the Church of Sweden has upset anti-Muslim bigots who believe she’s too tolerant of Islam and perhaps even prefers Muhammad to Jesus: Swedish Archbishop […]
An open letter to Pakistan’s new army chief General Raheel Sharif
Source: LUBP To save the army and to save Pakistan, the only course of action is to come out openly against the Taliban and their LeJ-ASWJ partners. We know that PTI, PML-N, JI and JUI openly sympathize with the mass murderers of our civilians and army soldiers. We know that […]
Pakistani media blacks out the story of a severed head hanging from a bridge in Karachi
Source: LUBP On Friday (29 Nov 2013), DAWN TV reported that Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (ASWJ-TTP) beheaded a retired Pakistan Navy officer Saleem Raza alia Fauji in Buffer Zone Karachi. Later, they drilled his head and hung it with a rope on Sohrab Goth bridge with a […]
Is France racist? Abuse shocks nation
Source: CNN.Com Paris (CNN) — This is a country which says races don’t exist: there is only the human race, to which we all belong. This is a country which, unlike the U.S. and Britain, has purposefully limited freedom of speech in order to criminalize verbal violence and incitement to hatred […]
Humans emerged from male pig and female chimp, world’s top geneticist says
Source: TOI LONDON: Humans are actually hybrids, who emerged as an offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, according to one of the world’s leading geneticist. Turning the theory of human ancestry on its head, Dr Eugene McCarthy — one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridization in animals from the University of Georgia has suggested that humans […]
How Prophet Muhammad’s Humility Could Shape the US-Iranian Peace Deal
Source: huffingtonpost.com | Dr. Faheem Younus As the freezing winds pierced through Washington DC this past weekend, Tehran warmed up to a nuclear peace deal. Since you may have gotten an earful about […]
Four more area churches broken into
Source: chillicothegazette.com CHILLICOTHE — Four more local churches have been broken into since Thursday, bringing the total to nearly a dozen across Ross County since Nov. 15. The new break-ins mostly occurred outside of the city limits, but local law enforcement is warning churches to stay alert for the burglars. The Ross […]
Religion Roundtable: Why doesn’t God interact with us today?
Source: annistonstar.com God hasn’hasn’t changed, our expectations have!!! I think that God does interact with us the way he did during biblical times, but we don’t interact with him the same way anymore. There are many reasons for this. For one, our world has gotten louder, busier and more distracting, so we […]
USA: Muslim Imam presents Holy Qur’an to Pastor Ingram of Christian Science church as token of Thanksgiving
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in “The Holy Quran is the best gift for the Thanksgiving because it teaches how one can be thankful to Allah and his creation.” A Muslim Imam invited to attend […]
UK: Quran Exhibition at University of Sheffield
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Visitors included Christians, Athiests, Agnostics and Non-Ahmadi Muslims and some spent considerable amount of time viewing the exhibition and stayed to participate in subsequent discussions on Islam and Ahmadiyya. […]
Pastor: Thanksgiving transcends any religion and is appropriate everywhere
Source: progress-index.com Question: Is Thanksgiving a Christian holiday and, if so, why? – Dr. Don Crain, Mechanicsville, Va. Answer: Christianity is actually a Judeo-Christian faith, rooted in the Old Testament and […]
eDigest: French Prison ordered to serve Halal Meals
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Sharing Ahmadiyya Islam Vision of World Peace with President of India
Source: Hamid Karim Ataur Rahman, President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Bharatpur, Murshidabad, West Bengal and Maulana Muzaffar Ahmad Amrohi Present of President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Agra Circle met President of […]
German President Praises Islamic Theology
OnIslam & News Agencies Friday, 29 November 2013 00:00 The president was speaking during a Thursday’s visit to Munster University’s Islamic Theology Center. MUNSTER – German President Joachim Gauck has […]
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