The Muslim Times Continued Pursuit to Define Free Speech
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) […]
Keeping faith: The changing face of religion in Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/i/caffeine/syndicate/?clipId=2667067310 Many immigrants come to Canada and bring their religion with them When the sad time came to say good-bye to her late husband, Marie Diane Dodd knew a traditional […]
French mayor expelled for claiming Islam will be banned from France by 2027
A French mayor, who claimed on Twitter that Islam will be banned in France by 2027, is facing expulsion from the country’s main opposition conservative party after rightists termed his […]
Can’t Use Indecent Language For Historically Respected Personalities Like Mahatma Gandhi: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a bank employee, who had challenged framing of charges against him for publishing an allegedly “vulgar and obscene” poem on Mahatma Gandhi […]
Can't Use Indecent Language For Historically Respected Personalities Like Mahatma Gandhi: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a bank employee, who had challenged framing of charges against him for publishing an allegedly “vulgar and obscene” poem on Mahatma Gandhi […]
Charlie Hebdo accused of hypocrisy as it suspends journalist after death threats over her articles attacking Islam
the daily mail: Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been accused of hypocrisy after it suspended a journalist who has received death threats for her articles attacking Islamic extremism. Zineb El […]
‘In Pakistan, anyone and everyone can be a target’
the Hindu: Around 1,000 Shia citizens killed in two years. Pakistan is a country of ghosts. They are everywhere, the victims and the perpetrators both. On Wednesday morning, six gunmen wearing police uniforms stopped an Al Azhar Garden bus carrying 60 Ismaili Muslims in Karachi. The bus picked up Ismailies […]
32nd National Ijtema of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya) held in South Australia
Report by Aziz Umer Bhatti Kindly click the images to zoom them
Imran Khan is wrong about infrastructure in Pakistan
By Saeed Qureshi Amazingly since last year (starting from Dharnas (sit-in) in the federal capital of Pakistan, the chairman of PTI Imran Khan has at least graduated, with flying colors, […]
Loaded gesture gets ranking Congresswoman into ethnic hot water
By Ben Brumfield, CNN Updated 6:17 AM ET, Sun May 17, 2015 (CNN) U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez would seem the perfect picture of an ethnically diverse Democrat. But a brief gesture […]
Innovation is key to the future of Islamic banking
Standardisation is critical to creating the transparency and clarity that would remove doubts from the minds of people PUBLISHED: 13:56 MAY 17, 2015 BY HUSSAIN AL QEMZI, SPECIAL TO GULF NEWS The word “innovation” is extremely malleable: it means different things to different people and within the banking fraternity […]
Saudi Arabia: International panel to end heresies needed: Fiqh Council
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 17 May 2015 Last update 17 May 2015 12:28 am The Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League has recommended the establishment of an international committee to coordinate with the authorities concerned in other countries to educate Muslims about myths and heresies. The […]
Int’l survey highlights strong impact of refugee influx on employment among Jordanians
by Khetam Malkawi | May 16, 2015 | 23:53 AMMAN — The unemployment rate among Jordanians has increased from 14.5 per cent prior to the Syrian crisis in 2011 to 22.1 per cent at present, according to a recent report by international organisations. Conducted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) […]
Despite regional conflict, Lebanon is planning to become a railway powerhouse once again
Amid regional uncertainty Beirut has the chance to revive its steam-age role as a key transit hub ROBERT FISK Sunday 17 May 2015 Lebanon as a rail powerhouse for the rebuilding of post-war Syria, high-speed double-track trains running in tunnels through the Lebanese mountains above Beirut, sidings for the building-blocks […]
Ahmadis referenced in Reclaiming Pakistan by Jibran Nasir: Muslim News, San Franciso
Jibran Nasir on Reclaiming Pakistan references killing of Ahmadis A TALK4PAK EVENT at Fremont Mehran Restaurant By Dr. H. Koya, San Francisco Bay Area. https://fbcdn-vthumb-a.akamaihd.net/hvthumb-ak-xaf1/v/t15.0-10/s480x480/11095245_10207029298151275_706616605_n.jpg?oh=ab4755689b33b51d2ddf83803b542411&oe=55C2B9CC&__gda__=1439360669_b6d55f40a9f3b584bfb3b0f9526f7c70 (Also see attached word doc) FREMONT (Mehran Restaurant) More 200 people attended a hurriedly organized lunch by TALK4PAK group here today featuring visiting public speaker […]
Freedom of speech is not absolute, says apex court of India
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: May 15, 2015 7:03 am Freedom of speech and expression has to be given a broad canvas, but it has to […]
A 40 story cross should symbolize peaceful co-existence and respectful discussion about Jesus
A ‘bulletproof’ cross rises in Karachi Source: Washington Post By Tim Craig May 15 KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Pakistani businessman Parvez Henry Gill says he was sleeping when God crashed into one of his […]
U.S. Special Operations forces kill ISIS commander Abu Sayyaf in Syria raid
by Matt Knight and CNN WIRE, May 16, 2015 (CNN) — U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIS commander during a raid intended to capture him in eastern Syria overnight Friday to Saturday, sources familiar with what happened on the ground in Syria told CNN. The ISIS commander, Abu […]
Mohammed Morsi: Egypt’s ex-leader sentenced to death
Source: BBC An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted president Mohammed Morsi to death over a mass prison break in 2011. The former leader has already been sentenced to 20 years […]
Mohammed Morsi: Egypt's ex-leader sentenced to death
Source: BBC An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted president Mohammed Morsi to death over a mass prison break in 2011. The former leader has already been sentenced to 20 years […]