.The Jakarta Post Jakarta | Fri, May 27 2016 | 08:58 am Teuku Wisnu(./kapanlagi.com) Topics Celebrities Muslim Paper-Edition 14 Share this article share on facebook share on twitter share on google plus share on Linkedin share on whatsapp comment share on email share […]
23 May 2016 By Haeril Halim, Margareth S. Aritonang & Suherdjoko, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia) JAKARTA/KENDAL, Indonesia (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The attack on minority group Ahmadiyah has spread into Central Java as the authorities have failed to punish properly the attackers. For decades, some 100 followers […]
Muhammadiyah youth condemn attack on Ahmadi mosque thejakartapost.comThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Tue, May 24 2016 | Books lie in tatters in a corner of Al Kautsar, an Ahmadi mosque in Purworejo village, Kendal, Central Java, following an attack early Monday.(Courtesy of Ahmadiyah congregation/.) The youth organization of […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post With Islamophobia rampant in communities across the U.S., Muslim Americans now have a chief ally at the White House. Zaki Barzinji, former Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.), recently assumed the new role as liaison to the Muslim […]
Source: BBC By Roland Pease BBC Radio Science Unit Researchers have invented a DNA “tape recorder” that can trace the family history of every cell in an organism. The technique […]
Source: BBC More than 100 leading scientists say the Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed over the Zika outbreak. The group says new findings about the virus make it […]
Source: Dawn By RAZA KHAN ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is deliberating on its proposed ‘model’ women’s protection bill, which allows a husband to ‘lightly’ beat his wife ‘if […]
Source: Politico By NAHAL TOOSI The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing genocide, is now grappling with how to actually prosecute the terrorist […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMANTHA SMITH AND CARROLL DOHERTY5 COMMENTS Far more Americans continue to sympathize more with Israel (54%) than with the Palestinians (19%) in the Middle East dispute, according to our recent foreign policy survey. And half of Americans (50%) think a way can be found for […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Israel has been a Jewish-majority country since its founding in 1948, and its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities – including some groups within the Jewish community – has persisted as a hotly debated topic throughout the nation’s history. That debate continues today. For […]
Source: Airdrieecho By Dawn Smith The room was packed for the seventh annual World Religions Conference at Airdrie’s Town and Country Centre, May 18. Hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, the event brought four speakers from diverse religions. together. The topic of the evening was Building Bridges of Mutual Respect […]
Satire Against Extremism is Taking the Web By Storm Satire Against Extremism is Taking the Web By Storm A wide range of Muslim comedians are mocking Islamist beliefs online, and a growing liberal Muslim audience is loving it. By Elliot Friedland, Wed, May 25, 2016 Muslims tired of the influence of […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — A video from MuslimGirl.com highlights women’s participation in political movements. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmuslimgirlarmy%2Fvideos%2Fvb.117231523398%2F10154183065558399%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560 Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder and editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl, told The Huffington Post that her team dreamed up the video after realizing that the hijab was being “commodified” by the Western fashion industry during […]
TeenVogue: by Polly Mosendz — With the presidential election just eight months away, politicians are battling it out for the hearts and minds of voters across America. To win any election, candidates need women on their side: According to the Center for American Women and Politics, women have cast more […]
Channel 5: Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque and the Ahmadiyya Muslims who run it May 27, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 https://player.vimeo.com/video/168283564?color=7aa74a&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 Meera Syal narrates a documentary going behind the scenes at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, home to Britain’s 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The film […]
Source: Telegraph UK A school board in northern Switzerland said on Wednesday that two Muslim boys who have refused to shake hands with their female teachers for religious reasons can […]
Rabwah.net: Meera Syal narrates a documentary going behind the scenes at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, home to Britain’s 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The film reveals the defining moments of life at the mosque, from finding love to committing to faith as well as looking at international […]
Tribune: When the 9/11 attacks occurred in the US, I had just begun teaching at the American University in Washington, DC as the new Chair of Islamic studies. As the scale of what had happened became apparent, I knew how important fostering dialogue and communication between Islam and other religions […]
By Giles Fraser, South London priest. Guardian columnist and Editorial Board. Visiting Professor at the LSE. Guardian: The so-called “masters of suspicion”, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would […]
May 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Two years or so since Daesh declared itself and its caliphate in parts of northern Syria and Iraq, we are now finally approaching the moment when decisive, coordinated, pervasive and sustained military force will be used against it to destroy its […]