Epigraph:
And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent thereof, and that they draw their head-coverings over their bosoms, and that they disclose not their beauty save to their husbands, or to their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands or their sons or the sons of their husbands or their brothers, or the sons of their brothers, or the sons of their sisters, or their women, or what their right hands possess, or such of male attendants as have no sexual appetite, or young children who have no knowledge of the hidden parts of women. And they strike not their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may become known. And turn ye to Allah all together, O believers, that you may succeed. (Al Quran 24:32)
Australia is divided into 6 states: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania and 2 territories; the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
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Queensland rejects push to make Muslim women remove burqas
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which…
These Are The Least Free Countries In The World For Religion
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The U.S. State Department’sInternational Religious Freedom Reportcites eight nations as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs) due to their “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”…
The Arab-Israeli conflict comes to the Metro buses
Source: The Washington Post BY GLENN KESSLER May 21 at 6:00 am A reader called the other day, asking for a fact check of a bus ad that called for…
Nation of Immigrants
Source: NY Times. In 1908, when a play called “The Melting Pot” was first staged in New York City, helping to popularize the term, New York had a foreign-born population…
Europe’s own ‘tea party’ risk
Source_ CNN A backlash against austerity, unemployment, immigration and loss of national power to European institutions could pushanti-EU parties to win about 25% of the 751 seats. In some of…
Thai military says it’s taken over the country in a coup
Source; CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — The Thai military has taken control of the government in a coup, the country’s military chief announced in a national address Thursday. Military officials…
“Can you extinguish the fire that burns in my heart?”
Source: ET According to the call data, available with The Express Tribune, the majority of women crank callers often started the conversation with phrases like “I love you”, “I like…
Collection of Articles on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorism and Islam in China
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land…
The scary return of a radical, far-right Europe and what it means
Global Post: HENIN-BEAUMONT, France — This former coal-mining town of 26,000 languishing in the economic badlands along the border with Belgium is about as far as you can get from…
Intolerance: ‘Violence against Ahmadis is at its peak today’
ET: LAHORE: The situation for Ahmadis deteriorated over the past year as seven Ahmadis were killed and 16 faced murder attacks, an annual report issued by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya on…
BBC highlights atrocities committed against Ahmadies in Pakistan
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Urumqi attack kills 31 in China’s Xinjiang region
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in…
Quran Exhibition – Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mauritius
QURAN EXHIBITION. The Mauritian Jamaat has organised its 9th Quran Exhibition at the SSR Gallery in Quatre Bornes, one of the largest cities within Mauritius. The 10 day long exhibition…
The British officer’s advise (to ISI)
Waseem Altaf The fact that Hamid Mir received six bullets on his body is no more an issue. That Hayatullah, Musa Khankhel and Saleem Shahzad were brutally murdered was…
French schoolboys wear skirts to fight sexism
France24. The “Lift the Skirt” initiative, an idea put together by students, saw pupils at 27 schools in the region around Nantes invited to attend school wearing skirts as part…
The Last Supper: A Fiction Opposing the Account of Garden of Gethsemane
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Last Supper is the evening that Jesus, may peace be on him, spends with his disciples, in Jerusalem.…
American Rabbis Welcome Pope Francis To Israel
The Huffington Post | by Yasmine Hafiz Ahead of Pope Francis’ arrival in the Holy Land on May 24, over 450 American rabbis have signed a letter of welcome as he…
Imran Khan should Demonstrate Political Maturity
By Saeed Qureshi Imran Khan and his unruly and impulsive political cohorts should not demonstrate indecent haste in dislodging the incumbent elected PMLN government thus opening a corridor for the…
UK: Traditional University lectures ‘being consigned to history’
Telegraph: Traditional university lectures are being consigned to history because students are accessing professors’ notes online without turning up in person, research suggests. Undergraduates are skipping almost 10 per cent…
UK:Prince Charles ‘Hitler’ row ‘risks triggering international scandal’
Telegraph. Prince Charles’ comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler risks an ‘international scandal’ a Russian newspaper warns. Nick Clegg has defended the Prince of Wales over his comparison of…
Christian and Minority Rights Must be Top of the Muslim World’s Agenda
Source: gmablog.org | Usman Khan Respect and tolerance are attributes charged with the potential to unite people and to establish meaningful peace; yet minorities in Muslim majority countries, particularly Christians, are all…
Boko Haram and Muhammad bin Qasim enslaving non-Muslims
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun “We Muslims are caught in a conundrum. If the Arab general bin Qasim is our hero for enslaving non-Muslim women in India in the eighth…
eDigest: Is Richard Dawkins leading people to Jesus or Muhammad?
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. And this Qur’an is not such…
50 Actual Facts That Challenge What You’ve Been Told About Muslims
Source: PolicyMic By Laila Alawa: Laila Alawa is a Muslim feminist, writer and cultural critic who has been published at The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Patheos, The Islamic Monthly, and serves…
Humanity First steps in to help flood affected people in Balkan Region.
By Zubair Khan MUCH of Serbia, Bosnia and eastern Croatia are under water. Flood maps marking the affected areas make it look as though a vast inland sea has suddenly…
China bans Microsoft Windows 8 on government computers
Source: BBC China has banned the use of Microsoft’s latest operating system on government computers. Beijing issued the restriction as part of a decree about the use of energy-saving products.…
‘Over My Dead Body
Source: The Daily Best: In 2012, the Obama administration reached a secret, surprising conclusion: Al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That assessment was in keeping with…
Video: Bear pulls cub to safety from busy highway
Tornado hunter Ricky Forbes was driving in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia when he noticed a cub stranded on a busy road dangerously close to traffic as its concerned…
Religion and the First World War: From Godlessness to Ruthlessness?
From Economic Issues May 6, 2014 – 8:43am AS the anniversary of the first world war draws closer, we will be hearing more and more arguments about the causes, both…
Russia’s Putin signs 30 year gas deal with China
Source: BBC Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years…
Bangladeshi, Egyptian Islamists Facing Doom, Pakistani Islamists Bloom
VoA: Two populous Muslim nations, geographically far apart, did one thing in common, perhaps coincidently, and it was to rein in Islamic groups recently. General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi took on…