Press Release: Head Of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Arrives In Japan
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Saudis hailed for anonymously paying diya for expat driver
ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 18 November 2015 JEDDAH: Expatriates are all praises for two Saudi men with golden hearts who donated SR225,000 to pay the diya (blood money) for a Filipino driver convicted of running over an Indian man on a motorway accident in the Kingdom. The kind gesture […]
Steering Swiss youngsters away from radicalisation
ANTI-JIHADI STRATEGY Steering Swiss youngsters away from radicalisation By Simon Bradley NOV 17, 2015 – 17:00 Three teams of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers carried out attacks last Friday […]
The way to go about refugees
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It would be sad, indeed tragic for some, if, as reported, certain nations, including several European countries, the US and Canada, would have a change of heart regarding receiving Syrian refugees in their countries, after the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for fear that […]
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in confrontations over home demolition
By AFP – Nov 16,2015 – Palestinians carry the bodies of Ahmed Al Ayeh, 28, and Laith Manasra, 21, during their funeral in the Qalandia refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday (AP photo) QALANDIYA, Palestinian Territories — Israeli forces shot dead […]
‘War on terror is our collective challenge’
By JT – Nov 19,2015 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The war on terror is a global war that “we should fight together as one”, according to His Majesty King […]
Religion should not be used to fight radicalism
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In fighting the scourge of radicalism and religious fundamentalism, one of the strategies is to use religion. Proponents of this approach vary from those who insist that Daesh and its ideology is simply built on a warped understanding of religion to those who […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community arrives in Japan
Islam Press: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels to inaugurate first Ahmadiyya Mosque in Japan On 17 November 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Tokyo, Japan for his third visit to the country. His Holiness arrived […]
“ISIS is not and will never be true Islam”
Bronx Chronicle: UCLA law professor, Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan decries the popular perception in today’s 24 hours news cycle and social media that associate Islam with acts of terrorism. These acts, he noted, were disproportionately emphasized and singled out a recent New York Times report that suggested that after 2001, […]
Don’t blame Islam for terrorism
We immigrated to Canada fourteen years ago. It was the year that affected world peace in the worst way possible; it was the year 9/11 happened. A bunch of suicide bombers claiming to be “Muslims” hijacked a plane that eventually crashed into the Twin Towers. Hundreds of people lost their […]
Quebec man in Joker mask who threatened to kill Arabs arrested
The Toronto Star: A Montreal man will spend the next few days in jail after being charged in connection with a YouTube video in which someone wearing a Joker mask […]
Anti-Muslim hate crimes have no place in Canada: Editorial
After the Paris attacks some Canadian Muslims are being scapegoated for crimes that have nothing to do with this country, and for which they owe no apology. A young Toronto […]
Aga Khan at Harvard: Islam and the Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World
The Huffington Post: Today if we were asked: “What is your understanding of Islam,” many of us may look at Friday’s attacks in Paris, for which the self-declared Islamic State […]
Einstein: The Light-Beam Rider
Source: New York Times By WALTER ISAACSON; who is the C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute, is the author of “The Innovators” and biographies of Einstein, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Henry […]
UK’s coal plants to be phased out within 10 years
Source: BBC The UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025 with their use restricted by 2023, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has proposed. Ms Rudd wants more gas-fired […]
The last word in green transport
Source: BBC We are hopeful, here, about green transportation breakthroughs, setting our cynicism aside for any planet-pleasing press release. But — perhaps because we are suffering from a particularly nasty […]
Watch this video to understand the biggest idea in physics
Source: BBC Over the course of November 1915, the German physicist Albert Einstein gave a series of lectures in which he presented his theory of general relativity to the world […]
The missing element of mercy
Source: 5 Pillars By Lauren Booth Journalist Lauren Booth questions whether the West can really hold the moral high ground in the aftermath of the deadly Paris terrorist attacks. “The […]
Obama: GOP’s Anti-Syrian Refugee Attitude ‘Needs To Stop’
Source: Huffington Post MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. of being scared of widows and orphans. He says […]
Rohingya and the Burmese generals
Nov 17,2015 – RAMZI BAROUD – JORDAN TIMES Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The official results are still […]