Pope to urge Europe to tackle racism, religious intolerance
rappler.com: VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is expected to take Europe to task over racial and religious intolerance during a visit to the European parliament Tuesday, November 25, as the […]
Kenya bus attack: Al-Shabab ‘wants religious war’
BBC News: The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is a bid to start a religious war, a senior adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta has told the BBC. Abdikadir Mohammed called on Kenyans of “all faiths and creeds” to stand together against the “heinous crimes”. At dawn […]
Tunisia holds first post-revolution presidential poll
BBC News: Tunisians are voting in the country’s first presidential election since the 2011 “Arab Spring” that triggered uprisings across the region. More than 25 candidates are in the race, but incumbent Moncef Marzouki and anti-Islamist leader Beji Caid Essebsi are widely seen as the favourites. The poll forms part […]
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to perform at Nobel Peace Prize Concert
Dawn: The concert and ceremony, to be hosted by Queen Latifah, will honour India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s very own and youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, Malala Yousafzai, for the work they have done to promote children’s rights, particularly education. Each year the Nobel Peace Prize Concert gathers […]
The Struggle to Erase Saudi Extremism
The Struggle to Erase Saudi Extremism By JANET BRESLIN SMITH and CARYLE MURPHYNOV. 20, 2014 NYTimes.com Photo Credit Magoz The rise of the Islamic State has once again turned the spotlight on Saudi Arabia, which is accused of supplying the theological foundation of the movement’s brutal ideology, as well as […]
Which book do you like the best ? cheque book
A bookseller conducting a market survey asked a woman : “Which book has helped you most in your life?” The woman replied : “My husband’s cheque book” !! …………… When you are in love, Wonders happen. But once you get married, You Wonder, what has happened. ………….. Philosophy of marriage: At the […]
Muslim immigrants create a parallel society
Source: The Conservative. The Netherlands , where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism: The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants create a parallel society within the Netherlands .. A new integration bill, which Dutch […]
Obama Lengthens Afghanistan Combat Role
Source: The daily Beast. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have been authorized by President Obama to retain counter-terrorism authorities even after their combat mission ends there on December 31. Though U.S. troops were supposed to just train, advise, and assist Afghan forces after 2014, they will now likely be involved in […]
Supreme Court of Pakistan takes suo motu notice of Christian couple’s lynching
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 […]
UK: Karen Armstrong new book – Fields of Blood
Religion not principal source of violence in world, Karen Armstrong argues Former Roman Catholic nun Karen Armstrong, who has spent her life writing about world religions, insists faith not the main cause of violence. View 2 photos zoom Aaron Harris / Special tothe Star Karen Armstrong. By: Jennifer Hunter The […]
Beautifying Islam
By Ahmed Vanya November 20, 2014 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4894/beautifying-islam Many people are understandably asking: What is the true nature of Islam? Is it that although there are many peaceful Muslims, Islam itself is not peaceful? Classical Islamic law, developed over the history of Islam, is definitely not peaceful or […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 300. Commandment – do not envy men for what Allah has given them out of His bounty
300. Commandment – do not envy men for what Allah has given them out of His bounty [4:55] Or do they envy men for what Allah has given them out of His bounty? If that is so, surely, We gave the Book and Wisdom to the children of Abraham also […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 301. Commandment to consult them in matters of administration
301. Commandment to consult them in matters of administration [3:160] And it is by the great mercy of Allah that thou art kind towards them, and if thou hadst been rough and hard-hearted, they would surely have dispersed from around thee. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and […]
Islamist militants hijack bus in Kenya at dawn, killing dozens
Source: CNN (CNN) — Islamist militants ambushed a bus in Kenya on Saturday and sprayed bullets on those who failed to recite Quran verses, killing at least 28 people, authorities said. The bus, which had 60 people aboard, was heading from Mandera, near the Somali border, to the capital of […]
India: Autobiography of Yousuf Khan – Dilip Kumar
Only Allah Knows Who Dilip Kumar Is And What All He Can Do By Raza Rumi 21 Nov 2014 Forays into analysis give resonance to Dilip Kumar’s recollections that are occasionally derailed by Saira Banu’s looming shadow, writes Raza Rumi in this review of the […]
Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow in the […]
Save minorities, save Pakistan
Punishment against those involved in vigilantism and mob behaviour against minorities has to be in place. Today, if minorities are being targeted, tomorrow there will be targeting based on political beliefs or financial status “I went to the west and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I went back to the East […]
Close military encounters between Russia and the west ‘at cold war levels’
Guardian: Russian military jets fly in formation above the Kremlin. The European Leadership Network’s report comes after a warning from Mikhail Gorbachev that the world is ‘on the brink of […]