The Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), has approved $ 5,061 million for the bank’s operations plan for the year 1435H (November 2013 –November 2014), the bank’s largest annual budget ever and a 10 per cent increase on the previous year. This new operations plan coming […]
EDDAH: KHALIL HANWARE Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 Top businessmen and economists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are unanimous in their opinion that the crackdown against illegal workers following the end of the amnesty period would only benefit the Saudi economy in the long run though short-term obstacles […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID & HABIB SHAIKH Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will ask member states to sever diplomatic relations with states that recognize Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem or move their embassies to the historic city during the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) […]
by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oct 27, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has […]
Marvel Comics is bringing back Ms. Marvel as Kamala Khan, the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey City, and the first-ever Muslim title character from Marvel Comics. Khan, […]
PRNewswire — LONDON, November 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — More than ten thousand Ahmadi Muslims will this week stand united with the country in remembering the brave members of the Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives for Great Britain. Thousands of worshippers will congregate at Mosques across the country, including the UK’s largest Mosque […]
Source: China Daily By SHEN JINGTING (China Daily) Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies Co Ltd announced on Wednesday that it will invest at least $600 million in research and development of fifth-generation mobile technology by 2018. Huawei’s move is part of a global trend that involves major telecom companies […]
Source: BBC The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat’s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims […]
Source: press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely in Japan on 5 November 2013. His Holiness flew into Tokyo Narita International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand and arrived at 5pm local time. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spent his first […]
Paris, France – Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned […]
Create Your Own Visualization on the site, linked here Sources: The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity, Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Question Wording: And do you favor or oppose the following? [ASK IF CHRISTIAN:] Making the Bible the official law of the land in our country? […]
Source: Guardian UK Aboriginal elders playing cards in their camp near Alice Springs. ‘A typical, dilapidated house in an outback Indigenous community must accommodate as many as 25 people. Families, the elderly and disabled people wait years for sanitation that works.’ Photograph: Anoek De Groot/AFP/Getty Images The corridors of the […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him, and that some of us take not others for Lords beside Allah.’ But if they turn away, then say, […]
The Huffington Post: Despite the current state of tension that exists between them, Muslims and Jews have a long history of tolerance and mutual admiration. Perhaps this is no more […]
The issue of kosher slaughter in Poland ‘’is currently being examined by the constitutional court,” ………… “I hope the verdict will protect religious rights, so that no one in our […]
View Data on more than 200 countries: by clicking here The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & […]
Collosal — This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago Designed in the late 1770s this incredible little robot called simply The Writer, was designed and built by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz with help from his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Jaquet-Droz was […]
World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of […]
Robert Fisk investigates an alleged double standard over two prominent Libyans accused of crimes against humanity There’s a spot of skulduggery going on in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Not to put too fine a point upon it, a lot of questions are being asked about why […]
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 – The American Muslim by Rahat Husain WASHINGTON, November 5, 2013 — An international campaign is garnering attention with an effort centered around the slogan “Who […]