Vox.com: Saudi Arabia’s deceased King Abdullah, according to just about every obituary in major Western publications, was a reformer. The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and NPRall describe Abdullah as a ruler committed to reforming Saudi Arabia’s notoriously repressive practices. Sen. John McCain called Abdullah an advocate for peace; IMF head Christine Lagarde called […]
The Independent: Muslim pupils across Britain are suffering a backlash of bullying and abuse following the Charlie Hebdo massacre amid a broad rise in Islamophobia in schools which the Government […]
Source: The Independent By Ziauddin Sardar, who is editor of the quarterly journal ‘Critical Muslim’. His book, ‘Mecca: The Sacred City’, is published by Bloomsbury The West’s best hope of dealing […]
Source: the-japan-news.com | The Yomiuri Shimbun The recent case in which two Japanese men were taken hostage by a group believed to be the Islamic State has drawn widespread criticism from Muslims living in Japan. “Islam does not condone persecution or violence,” Muhammed Rasit Alas, a 30-year-old imam dressed in white, told devotees […]
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK in Milton Keynes have signed a £500 cheque for the chosen charities of the Mayor of Milton Keynes. Source: miltonkeynes.co.uk Usman Chaudhary told the […]
Source: The Telegraph Prime Minister’s promise to allow security services to access encrypted mobile data “compromises protection for everybody on everything” says Microsoft chief By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Davos The world’s […]
Source: alislam.org The Concept of Khilafat in the Holy Quran For our discussion, we would like to make a distinction between “khilafat” and “caliphate” for reasons other than mere etymological development […]
“We believe that as a community in New Zealand it is our duty to be loyal to values, integrate with all the communities in New Zealand and that we safeguard […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com PARIS (AP) — A leading Muslim group says there have been at least as many anti-Muslim acts in France since the terror attacks this month as for all of last year. The French Council for the Muslim Religion said Friday 128 anti-Muslim actions or threats were reported from Jan. […]
Source: nationalmirroronline.net Ten Hufaz (those who have memorized the Holy Qur’an) at the Hafizul Quran School established by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at at Ilaro,Ogun State Southwest, Nigeria joined other young Hufaz […]
Source: thestar.co.uk A Sheffield Muslim group has welcomed comments by Secretary of State for Communities Eric Pickles calling for extremism to be rooted out. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Sheffield has joined […]
Continue reading the main story in BBC Of the many buzzwords making the rounds in Davos this year, “skills gap” is the most ubiquitous. The great and good attending the […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com What is the biggest danger facing religion today? One could make an argument for declining numbers or morality debates, but Rabbi David Rosen says there’s something else that looms […]
India has more than 50 percent of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65 percent are under 35 years old. Source: huffingtonpost.in More than half of the […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com The world has seen a surge of religious violence in recent years — from the recent attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to the Wisconsin […]
“[The attackers] do not represent the millions of Muslims around the world who condemn terrorism. To equate an entire religion and its followers with the actions of a minority is […]
Global Research: by William Blum — After Paris, condemnation of religious fanaticism is at its height. I’d guess that even many progressives fantasize about wringing the necks of jihadists, bashing into their heads some thoughts about the intellect, about satire, humor, freedom of speech. We’re talking here, after all, about young […]
thegurdian: by Sarah Boseley — Coca-Cola may not enjoy the cult status it has in Mexico but modern marketing tactics such as turning the London Eye Coke-red ring alarm bells ‘The corporation doesn’t need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what […]
Source: ET In the 1970s, the then prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, famously declared that, “We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will have our own,” while referring to the attainment of nuclear weapons. Forty years after that declaration, we both have the bomb and — […]
Source You Tube via Bushra Adnan of Germany. Note by Editor: Very impressive spoken English poetry about Ahmadies. Video Link