KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly Monday demanded the disbandment of the Council of Islamic Ideology while passing a resolution to stop implementation on the CII’s earlier decisions, DawnNews reported. The resolution was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional’s (PML-F) leader Mehtab Akhtar Rashidi. The Assembly expressed serious reservations over the recent decisions […]
Dawn.com: by Gohar Ali Khan — HYDERABAD: A number of residents of various localities of Tando Allahyar city and activists of religious parties took to the streets against alleged desecration of the Holy Quran and attacked the home-cum-worship place of a man belonging to the Ahmedi community for his involvement […]
By Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox March 31, 2014: 7:06 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you thought paying tens of thousands of dollars for a college education guaranteed a high-paying job, think again. About 260,000 people who had a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum […]
Author: Zaib Shaikh Source: Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/02/muslims_are_proud_canadians_too.html Last Sunday, about 15 million Canadians tuned into the CBC to watch the Canadian men’s hockey team win the gold medal in Sochi. That’s almost half the country. During the game, CBC broadcast live shots of towns and meeting places where Canadians had congregated […]
Guardian: by David Eggboro — An international Muslim group, which runs the largest mosque in London, has celebrated its centenary year in the UK at an event in Theydon Bois. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, which aims to promote a positive image of Islam, held the event at Theydon Bois Village […]
OnIslam & Newspapers Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:00 Initial reports assumed that the plane has crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. CAIRO – As search for flight MH370 debris continues, religious leaders have rejected to hold funerals for the victims unless bodies are found or confirmed dead to perform the […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00 The latest move by Crimean Muslim Tatar was expected to face Russian pressures, amid moves by Moscow to convince the minority to drop their opposition BAKHCHISARAY – Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars have taken the first steps towards seeking autonomy for the […]
PARIS—To stop the stream of French youths pursuing jihad in Syria, France is preparing to try to tackle terrorism before it starts, by involving schools, parents and local Muslim leaders, The Associated Press has learned. This is part of a still-confidential plan prompted by fears that young radicals who travel […]
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Brampton Courhouse shooting Photo by Pam Douglas Mississauganews.com 30/3/2014 Police had this house on Flower Trail in Brampton under guard since soon after the Brampton courthouse shooting Friday morning until approximately 4:30 p.m. Saturday. By Torstar Network With files from Pam Douglas BRAMPTON— As the family and neighbours of a […]
Credit: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: The special court constituted to try former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for high treason indicted him on Monday and put the ball in the government’s court in […]
Lead post collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Another victory for Erdogan Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — By the early hours of Monday morning, it appeared clear that […]
82. ‘Vie with one another in seeking forgiveness from your Lord and for a Garden the value whereof is equal to the value of the heaven and the earth […]
The country’s ruler says sharia was created as guidance from Allah ANDREW BUNCOMBE Saturday 29 March 2014 The Sultan of Brunei, one of the world’s wealthiest rulers and a […]
Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — By the early hours of Monday morning, it appeared clear that the party of Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won an extraordinary victory in countrywide municipal […]
Dawn: INCIDENTS of communal violence targeted at Sindh’s Hindu population are occurring with disturbing regularity. On early Friday morning a Hindu temple in Hyderabad was set on fire by unidentified arsonists, resulting in damage to an idol and the structure itself. Earlier this month a dharamshala in Larkana was attacked […]