Sessions Says Law ‘Absolutely’ Prohibits Waterboarding
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions, who is in line to become attorney general, said Tuesday that the law “absolutely” prohibits waterboarding and offered no hints at […]
Reports: Morocco bans sale of full-face veil
Source: Al Jazeera News media say law due to take effect soon also prohibits import and marketing of garment in “all cities and towns”. Morocco has banned the production and […]
Jeff Sessions, US attorney general nominee, denies KKK sympathies
Source: BBC President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, […]
Plants can see, hear and smell and respond
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 10 January 2017 Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, “are just very slow animals“. This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a […]
The mysterious masked women of Iran
Source: BBC By Rodolfo Contreras A jumble of cultures The people in Hormozagan province on Iran’s southern cost are known as Bandari (Port People). Once an important stop on the […]
Kabul bombings: Dozens dead after twin blasts near Afghan parliament
Source: BBC The blasts, part of a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, took place during rush hour as staff were leaving the complex. The Taliban said they carried […]
Hundreds join the Rev. William Barber’s ‘Moral March’ in D.C. to protest Jeff Sessions as attorney general
Source: The Washington Post By Paul Duggan The Rev. William J. Barber II, a pastor and activist who has emerged as a leading religious critic of President-elect Donald Trump, was […]
How much do top Mormon leaders make? Leaked pay stubs may surprise you.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK Mormons and others who wonder about the salaries of top LDS leaders got a possible peek at those numbers Monday, when […]
In final argument, Roof does not ask jury to spare life
Source: Associated Press By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof told jurors Tuesday that he could ask them for life in prison instead of the […]
Anonymous Bomb Threats Rattle Jewish Centers Across Eastern U.S.
Source: The New York Times By MITCH SMITH The morning rush at the Jewish community center in Columbia, S.C., had subsided when the phone rang on Monday. The caller, an elderly-sounding woman, “in a loud screaming voice kept saying there’s a bomb,” said Barry A. Abels, the center’s executive director. […]
The Obama presidency: ‘War on religion’ or ‘Amazing Grace’?
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) He had done it before, after Tucson, Aurora, Fort Hood and Sandy Hook: taken on the mantle of the pastor-in-chief before a crowd […]
Third of breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily, study says
Source: CNN By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News One in three women with breast cancer detected by a mammogram is treated unnecessarily, because screening tests found tumors that are so […]
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
Source: Amazon By E.J. Dionne Jr. (Author), Joy-Ann Reid (Author) A collection of Barack Obama’s greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. We […]
Does Donald Trump herald the decline and fall of the American empire?
Source: Dawn Trump’s approach to foreign policy is a reversion to the ruthless use of US military power and economic coercion in the 19th and 20th centuries to secure the strategic advantages that made America ‘great’. But the world is no longer one where the US can dictate its will. […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim community organizes “Coffee Cake & True Islam” at Kirkendall Public Library, Iowa
“Islam teaches respect for all religions and their leaders, without Justice we can not achieve peace”, said Imam Shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Glen Ellyn Chicago. Report by: Mr. Edvin Bajrektarevic Coffee Cake and Islam events are taking place all over the USA. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has organized these […]
UK: Head and Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates New Baitul Ehsan Mosque in Mitcham, London
Source: http://www.pressahmadiyya.com/2017/01/innauguration-of-mosque-in-mitcham.html MONDAY, 9 JANUARY 2017 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates the Baitul Ehsan Mosque The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 7 January 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Baitul Ehsan Mosque […]
“Introduction to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community”
By Falahud Din Shams In the 19th century, Islam as a religion and Muslims as a nation were helpless. Muslim empires were crumbling all over the world. In the subcontinent of India, the Mughal Empire was brought down by the British. Islam was being attacked by all other […]
A Man Felt Threatened By My Book Written In Arabic
01/06/2017 Hajer Sharief Co-founder of Together we build it organisation, member of the United Nations advisory group on Security Council resolution 2250 & advocate for Kofi Annan foundation with Extremely Together Today as a young Arab/Muslim, I got the advice of my life when a middle-aged British man told me […]
India: Hyderabad Madrasa Empowers Girls with Course on Fatwa
Mohammed Wajihuddin Jan 9, 2017 HYDERABAD: Over a dozen students, all clad in Burqas, are in a small classroom. Their teacher, dressed identically, keeps a close watch. Everyone is on the floor while books on Hadith (traditions of the Prophet), commentaries on the Quran and tomes on Fatwas line the […]