Pakistani imam jailed for five years for hate speech
Summary A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against a rival sect, officials said Wednesday. Maulana Abubakar a prayer leader […]
Europe can reverse the U.S. failures on Palestine
Summary BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON The European Union’s desire to play a more active role in promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace, as its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday as she set out on her first visit to the region, is one of the few areas […]
Jordan calls for Arab media coalition to combat terrorism
Petra | May 19, 2015 | Jordan Times CAIRO — Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Mohammad Momani on Tuesday called for forming an Arab media coalition to fight terrorism. Chairing the Jordanian delegation to the meetings of the Council of Arab Information Ministers’ Executive Office at the […]
Video: Marilyn Mosby’s “Love for All”
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is healing Baltimore by giving #FreeIceCream to kids and seniors across all 18-parks of the city. The idea is to simply spread #LoveForAll. Last week, our […]
Video: Marilyn Mosby's "Love for All"
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is healing Baltimore by giving #FreeIceCream to kids and seniors across all 18-parks of the city. The idea is to simply spread #LoveForAll. Last week, our […]
Losing My Religion: America’s ‘Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome’
TIMES: I’d been given a religion that was built like a Jenga tower—when I took a few blocks out, it all tumbled to the ground When I read the Pew […]
Pakistan: An unbiased Maulana recites poem of Promised Messiah (as)
An unbiased Pakistani Maulana recites a Persian of Promised Messiah (as) from his magnum opus Brahane Ahmadiyya In praise of Sydena Holy Prophet Muhammad (rasul Allah may peace and blessings be on him) https://youtu.be/BejTSeCb9jI
Syria’s Mercenaries: The Afghans Fighting Assad’s War
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
Syria's Mercenaries: The Afghans Fighting Assad's War
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
POLITICAL CARTOONIST : Drawings from the edge of death
PRINT SEND THIS ARTICLE 1 COMMENTS As a political refugee in Switzerland, Hani Abbas chose exile to escape Syrian security forces. Many of his fellow cartoonists and journalists had been assassinated, imprisoned or tortured. Abbas was born in 1977 in Yarmouk, a large Palestinian refugee camp in the suburbs of the […]
Jordan will not be put off by regional chaos — King tells CNBC
by Jordan Times | May 18, 2015 | AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has said that regional problems would not prevent Jordan from moving ahead with its development plans, adding that crises in the neighbourhood have always been a driver for progress as far as the Kingdom is concerned. […]
‘WEF hosting sends strong, positive messages about Jordan’s resilience’
by Omar Obeidat and Dana Al Emam and Merza Noghai | May 18, 2015 | 23:53 AMMAN – Experts see hosting the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the eastern shores of the Dead Sea in the coming few days as an opportunity to send a message to global politicians, investors […]
Speech of King Abdullah II of Jordan at the European Parliament (Strasbourg, 10 March 2015)
What a Powerful Message of Islam: A must watch video: Watch video in Youtube Additional Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Religion and the 21st Century: A Collection of Articles
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is Allah as […]
472. Commandment – Convey the message of Peace and Love to the kings and the head of the states and ask them to Behave not proudly towards me, but come to me in submission
472. Commandment – Convey the message of Peace and Love to the kings and the head of the states and ask them to Behave not proudly towards me, but come to me in submission [27:29] ‘Go thou, with this letter of mine, and lay it before them; then withdraw from them […]
Christians need to face the bad news about Christianity
Source: The Week Christianity is declining in the United States, according to new Pew surveys. And I have some news for my fellow Christians: This is actually bad news for Christianity. That may seem obvious, but Russell Moore, an online acquaintance, a Baptist minister, and president of the Southern Baptist […]
USA: Ghinwa Zeineddine: Miss Arab USA
Source: The Clarion Project The Miss Arab USA Pageant is held once a year to celebrate Arab cultural heritage in America. It is managed by the Arab-American Festival Association as “a non-political platform for young ladies to achieve personal growth and development, take pride in their heritage, discover their inner beauty in […]
Anti-Islam film ban lifted for Google
BBC: An appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that a US-produced film called Innocence of Muslims, which sparked global riots after its release in 2012, should not be banned […]
A Net Assessment of the World
Source: Stratfor A pretentious title requires a modest beginning. The world has increasingly destabilized and it is necessary to try to state, as clearly as possible, what has happened and why. This is not because the world is uniquely disorderly; it is that disorder takes a different form each time, […]
Why Islam doesn’t need a reformation
Guardian: In recent months, cliched calls for reform of Islam, a 1,400-year-old faith, have intensified. “We need a Muslim reformation,” announced Newsweek. “Islam needs reformation from within,” said the Huffington […]