Day: May 24, 2015

Turkey, Pakistan and Islam

Source: The Daily Times Ataturk’s ideas were shaped by the French idea of republicanism whereas Jinnah’s liberal democratic views were influenced by the turn of the century British liberal tradition By Yasser Latif Hamdani Both Hector Bolitho and Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah’s biographers, record that Jinnah had in 1932 bought Grey […]

HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY ARRIVES IN GERMANY

Source:media@pressahmadiyya.com  Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels to attend Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived at the Baitus Subuh Mosque in Frankfurt on 23 May 2015. The Khalifa (Caliph) travelled from London by […]

The Economic System of Islam

| May 2015   The Review of Religions Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih II(ra) We begin a serialisation of an epic lecture delivered in Lahore by the Second worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. His renowned scholarly acumen, both secular and religious, was preserved in a […]

These guys are painfully wrong about Islam: 3 things that every anti-Muslim zealot needs to admit Bill Maher & Richard Dawkins continue to disparage a religion that, in all honesty, they know little about

QASIM RASHID Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher (Credit: AP/Fiona Hanson/HBO/Janet Van Ham) As a practicing Muslim, I don’t believe Islam is above criticism. I do believe that Islam backs free speech. I also believe that Islam champions secular governance. But what’s significant about my beliefs is why I believe them — which is […]

USA: 11-year-old Indian-American genius graduates from college

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Terrorism Studies – study online with the University of St Andrews

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