Source: TOI WASHINGTON: A senior lawmaker from President Barack Obama’s Democratic party has compared US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi, saying the controversial whistleblower was engaged in a “non-violent” act of “civil disobedience”. John Lewis, one of America’s most revered civil rights leaders, says Snowden, who has come […]
Source: ET QUETTA: DIG Operations and 28 other officials were killed, while 42 others were injured in a suicide blast at Police Lines, Quetta, on Thursday, Express News reported. The blast took place just before the funeral prayers of SHO City Mohib Ullah commenced at the Police Lines mosque. Around 300 […]
Source: Spiegel: The Church of England has made a former oil industry executive its new leader. He now aims to defuse the conflicts between religion and the financial world.The working meal in mid-July wasn’t exactly exemplary for a “church for the poor.” The menu consisted of swordfish carpaccio, pasta with […]
Source: Dawn.Com IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine years old when she moved in to live with her husband in Madina after Hijra. This piece of misinformation has led to the wrong view […]
Source: Asia Times: By Emad Mekay Egypt’s coup leader General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi displays the megalomaniac traits of Libyan despot Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (replete with the medals and identical shades); a newspaper columnist says she is willing to be his “sex slave”. Welcome to part of the world for the […]
Source: ET PESHAWAR: Pakistani businessman Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi has been kidnapped, threatened with death, forcibly displaced and lives apart from his family: all because of his enormous moustache. Impeccably […]
Source: TOI MARYLAND(US): Prosecutors of Bradley Manning trial have approached experts on militant Islam for showing Manning damaged US interests by disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks. Navy Cmdr. Youssef Aboul-Enein is set to testify on Thursday at Manning’s sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. More:
Source: TOI NEW DELHI: Delhi’s gurdwara management committee president Manjeet Singh GK and other members of a Sikh delegation were not cleared to board a flight from Rome after they refused to take off their turbans at the airport security check on Tuesday. More:
Source: The Huffington Post By Sean McElwee Right-wing Evangelical Fundamentalism claims to “go back to roots of Christianity.” In fact, the “literal” (i.e., the earth was created in seven literal days) reading of the Bible was invented in the 19th century. Few fundamentalists care about the early church, the Gospels, the […]
Source: TOI NEW DELHI: The resumption of the composite dialogue process with Pakistan could now be put on hold after defence minister A K Antony told Parliament on Thursday that the killing of five Indian soldiers “will have consequences on our behaviour on the line of control and for our […]
By Evie Liu, for CNN (CNN) — Dubai’s 828-meter Burj Khalifa has less than a year left as the world’s tallest building. China’s projected 838-meter (2,749 feet) Sky City broke ground in […]
faarieya.wordpress.com; “…If God had willed, He would have made you all in one nation and one religion), but that He (God) left you in different religions to compete in good deeds and society benefits. The return of all of you is to God; then He (God) will inform you about […]
Newmarket Era: It’s a few days before the sixth annual Run for Vaughan and a handful of young girls sit in a Maple home looking forward to the weekend. The girls, […]
eipr.org: The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today warned about the gravity of sectarian violence and incitement seen in several governorates since the massive demonstrations and marches of 30 June. The way that state agencies, particularly the security apparatus, have dealt with these attacks is disturbing. These agencies have […]
By Qasim Rashid, Spokesperson, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA Dailycaller.com; Al Qaeda, Taliban extremists, and Mike Huckabee have at least one thing in common — both believe Islam is a violent religion. In a recent tirade, Huckabee wondered, “why it is that we tiptoe around a religion that promotes the most murderous […]
HRW: The Swiss government is arbitrarily interfering with asylum seekers’ free movement rights by giving local authorities the authority to prohibit them from using public school and sports facilities, Human Rights Watch […]
Youtube: This testimony is from 2012: Published on Jan 10, 2013 Amjad Mahmood Khan testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives (Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission) about persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in South Asia as part of special hearing on “Challenges Facing Religious Minorities in South Asia”. Proceedings held on […]
My Wife DOES NOT WORK !!! Conversation between a Husband (H) and a Psychologist (P): P : What do you do for a living Mr Bandy ? H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank. P : Your Wife ? H : She doesn’t work. She’s a Housewife […]
Source: daltondailycitizen.com By Najia Humayun: Daily Citizen intern Upon rising before the break of dawn, various thoughts occupy the minds of Muslims whilst preparing to pray. “This is an opportunity to pay […]
Introduction Hadrat Sahibzada Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003), the Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama‘at) from 1982-2003, began a series of lectures in Urdu at Jalsah Salanah (the Annual Convention of the Community) in Rabwah, Pakistan, in 1982, the year in which he was elected Khalifatul Masih, on the […]