Day: November 25, 2016

Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK celebrates Nigeria Ahmadiyya Centenary

By Tommy Kallon President Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK Nigeria Ahmadiyya Centenary Event Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK celebrates On Sunday the 20th of November 2016 the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK held a function to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the inception of Ahmadiyyat in Nigeria.   The function which took place […]

Hundreds of women attend Baitur Rahman Mosque’s celebrating the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Women Association’s 50th year in Canada

Source: http://www.northdeltareporter.com/news/402913446.html Delta Mosque holds women’s event to celebrate 50 years in Canada Hundreds of women of all faiths attended an event at Delta’s Baitur Rahman Mosque celebrating the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at British Columbia Women’s Association’s 50th year in Canada. — image credit: Rosemary Newton by  Rosemary Newton – North Delta Reporter […]

Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim community to hold Pathway to Peace”conference at Terrace, B.C.

Source: http://www.terracestandard.com/news/402862596.html Pathway to peace to be explored at Terrace, B.C. conference Pathway to peace to be explored at Terrace, B.C. conference Nov. 26. — image credit: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO THE AHMADIYYA Muslim community returns to the city Nov. 26 for a conference carrying the theme “Pathway to Peace.” Held at the Salvation […]

Australia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Association to hold Koran exhibition at Hampton Park Library to introduce Islam to the public & clear up misinformation

Source: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/south-east/hampton-park-koran-exhibition-to-help-locals-understand-islam/news-story/fb5b24e94fd6bef73e986104c2a5b406 Tahir Ahmed with a Koran. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association is holding a Koran exhibition to introduce the public to Islam and clear up misinformation. Picture: Valeriu Campan Hampton Park Koran exhibition to help locals understand Islam By Megan Bailey, Cranbourne Leader A MUSLIM group in the southeast is trying […]

Some of Pakistan’s finest military minds have been Ahmadi. Clerics need to stop abusing them

Source: http://nation.com.pk/blogs/24-Nov-2016/some-of-pakistan-s-finest-military-minds-have-been-ahmadi-clerics-need-to-stop-abusing-them November 24, 2016, 4:03 pm/ 1 Comment By Kashif Chaudhry When Donald Trump belittled a Muslim American Gold Star family, he received strong backlash from the civil society. The Democratic Party and the media came out in full support of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son captain Humayun Khan had been killed in […]

Future of Ahmadiyya in Nigeria: Beyond the first century

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/future-ahmadiyya-nigeria-beyond-first-century/ By Ibrahim Oguntayo The root of Ahmadiyya Nigeria Muslim Jamaat was planted in 1916 when the spread of the message of the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Ghulam Ahmad was brought to the newly amalgamated Northern and Southern protectorates in Nigeria. Ahmadiyya took its root in 1889 in Qadian, now Pakistan […]

USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Metro Detroit launches open house “Coffee, Cake & True Islam” every Thursday at Rochester Hills

Source: http://www.arabamerica.com/events/coffee-cake-true-islam-2016-12-01/ EVENTS “Coffee, Cake and True Islam” “Coffee, Cake and True Islam” – 12/01/2016 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm “Coffee, Cake and True Islam” – 12/08/2016 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm “Coffee, Cake and True Islam” – 12/15/2016 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm “Coffee, Cake and True […]

India: Taleem-Ul-Islam Ahmadiyya Institute Asnoor closed for past four and half months due to troubled conditions of Kashmir

Source: http://reliefweb.int/report/india/students-under-siege-schools-burn-india-s-troubled-kashmir Students under siege as schools burn in India’s troubled Kashmir By Stella Paul KULGAM, Kashmir, India, Nov 23 2016 (IPS) – In the fading light of a November afternoon, 12-year-old Mariya Sareer bends over a textbook, trying to read as much as she can before it gets dark. It’s […]

Igniting incitement

Source:Times of Israel Following an unfortunate and irresponsible tweet by Minister Naftali Bennett — “the only ones capable of setting the land on fire are people to whom it doesn’t belong” — fearful Israelis cranked up their hatred to a level that will soon extinguish every remaining shred of sanity here. Indeed, the […]

Trump gets invitation to visit Germany

Source: The Local The leader of the German state of Bavaria has invited Donald Trump to visit, reports said on Thursday, after he urged European politicians to keep an open mind about the controversial US President-elect. Premier Horst Seehofer, a maverick member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, wrote to […]

India: In Delhi children gasp for air in a suffocating smog

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/11/24/in-delhi-children-gasp-for-air-in-an-unbearable-smog.html NEW DELHI — In the dense smog that engulfed India’s capital early this month, a baby named Vaishnavi gasped through the night. Inside the concrete room that her father and mother rent for $20 a month, they took turns staying up, laying a hand on her rib cage, feeling […]

Trump will be impeached

Source: CNN “First of all, throughout his life he has played fast and loose with the law,” Lichtman said. “He has run an illegal charity in New York state. He has made an illegal campaign contribution through that charity. He has used the charity to settle personal business debts. He […]

Shades of McCarthyism

Source: Dawn Tailpiece: the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong wrote a letter to the president of Pakistan about the hanging of two men who were subsequently acquitted by the Supreme Court. The director-general (C-II) at the president’s secretariat (Public) forwarded the letter “for appropriate action” to the secretary […]

Some more home truths

Source: Dawn Punjab is one province which has stayed with the tradition. It is one unit in the federation that has not got any break from rule by Gen Zia’s associates. Even when the unit was ruled by the PPP or its allies the chief minister, the man at the […]

Divine Revelation and Rationality

by Mirza Tahir Ahmad Divine Revelation and Rationality N another chapter we briefly covered the progress of Muslim thought and intellectual pursuits in many areas of human interest. During that period, although Muslim enquiry was predominantly influenced by Quranic teachings and the traditions of the Holy Prophetsa, it could not […]