Europe was once home to a wild ape unlike all others
Source: BBC About seven million years ago, human evolution was just getting started in east Africa. But thousands of kilometres to the north, another ape empire was in its death […]
JK Rowling shares Robert Galbraith rejection letters
Source: BBC JK Rowling has shared two rejection letters she received for her first novel writing as Robert Galbraith. The author was trying to find a publisher for The Cuckoo’s […]
LETTER: Ahmadi Muslims around the world condemn Belgium terrorist attacks
Source: Finger Lakes Times To the Editor: The tragic news of the Belgium incident has gripped the peace-loving citizens of the world. We, the Ahmadi Muslims all over the world, are at the forefront of condemning such incidents. We show this by our words, by actions and by our writings. All […]
The true Islamic response to the Brussels attacks
Source: RNS (RNS) Daesh (the preferred Arabic name for the group that calls itself the Islamic State) has attacked Turkey five times since October, leaving nearly 200 dead and hundreds […]
Learning — And Unlearning — To Be An ‘Ambassador’ For Islam
Source: NPR By Beenish Ahmed Beenish Ahmed is a reporter and writer. She covers international affairs forThinkProgress and is the founder of THE ALIGNIST, a new media platform that connects […]
Thomas Piketty: Social Investment Can Stop Jihad
Source: Time Part of the response to terrorism must be security-based. A strike against Daesh is needed; those who belong to it must be stopped. But we also have to […]
How Your Emotions Can Guide You to Good Decisions
Source: Motto The decisions you make as you’re in the early phases of adulthood can affect your path. You probably know this. But what you may not know is the […]
University of California softens anti-Semitism statement
Source: Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The University of California’s regents declared on they would not tolerate anti-Semitism on campus but rejected a proposal to equate anti-Zionism with religious […]
Muslim shopkeeper murdered in suspected ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack after posting on Facebook of love for Christians
Detectives arrest 32-year-old man after Pakistani-born Asad Shah, 40, repeatedly stabbed in savage attack Asad Shah (inset) was stabbed to death in Glasgow Photo: SWNS By Tom Morgan 7:23PM GMT 25 Mar 2016 A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death in a “religiously prejudiced” attack hours after posting an Easter message […]
The Hidden Religion and Science Conflict
Source: Huffington Post By Michael S. Evans Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth College, author of Seeking Good Debate: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life. More than 150 years have passed since Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and we’re still arguing about science and religion. Outrageous public statements from religious […]
Nigeria mosque bombers kill 22
Two suspected female attackers blow themselves up inside and outside a busy mosque in northeastern Maiduguri city. 16 Mar 2016 10:28 GMT | Nigeria, Boko Haram, Africa People walk in front of a mosque after a bomb attack in Maiduguri in 2012 [File: Olatunji Omirin/Reuters] Two female bombers killed at […]
Pope Francis washes and kisses feet of Muslim, Hindu and Christian refugees
Pope Francis: ‘We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace’ Hardeep Matharu @Hardeep_Matharu The Pontiff washed and kissed the feet of […]
87 million kids at risk of brain damage in conflict zones: UNICEF
Thu Mar 24, 2016 A child cries as Palestinians salvage items from their home after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers south of Hebron (al-Khalil) on Feb. 2, 2016. (AFP photo) The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says some 87 million children under the age of seven are growing up in conflict zones across […]
Jihadists Don’t Understand the Qur’an
Qasim Rashid @MuslimIQ – March 24, 2016 Qasim Rashid is an attorney, author of Extremist, and national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. An understanding of true Islam can help stop terrorist acts This week’s Brussels attacks—like those in Ankara over the weekend, Paris in November and Kenya […]
Asad Shah had head stamped on and was left in pool of blood in brutal attack.
Source. Daily Record.Co.UK A SHOPKEEPER was stabbed to death in a savage street attack in Glasgow last night. Forty-year-old Asad Shah, owner of Shah’s Newsagents, was subjected to a brutal assault and had his head stamped on. The alarm was raised at 9.10pm in Minard Road in the Shawlands area […]
Clare Hollingworth: 104-year-old on being first UK correspondent to report on Germany’s invasion of Poland
When she called the British embassy in Warsaw, a diplomat refused to believe her story Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 19 March 2016 14 comments When Suzanne and Helen opened the […]
Time for Arabs to get off the fence
EYAD ABU SHAKRA Published — Friday 25 March 2016 A few hours separated two events last week: The Arab League picked Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary-general and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about Aboul-Gheit’s appointment as he is a veteran diplomat […]
Bakers, teachers, painters line up to save lives in Syria
White Helmets, a non-sectarian group of ordinary people, was officially formed in 2014 and now has 3,000 volunteers Women volunteers of the White Helmets, which is a group of unarmed men and women set up in 2014 to fill the voImage Credit: Whitehelmets.org White Helmets volunteers rescue children from a […]
Should Every Muslim Have to Apologize for Every Terrorist Attack?
Why Muslims Should Never Have To Apologize for Terrorism Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. Picture this: You wake up in the morning to hear your […]
CNN: Ahmadiyya spokesperson @Harris_Zafar talks to Wolf Blitzer about Brussels attacks
On March 24, 2016, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA National Spokesperson, Harris Zafar, joined Wolf Blitzer on CNN to address both the Brussels attacks and the responses from people like Senator […]