“[T]here will be Muslims coming from Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras. They will all be here. Some of them are here already and some of them will be arriving.” Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk Source/Credit: Channel 5 Belize By Channel 5 | January 25, 2017 Annual Regional Gathering of […]
Source: Time By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City The digital image shows a clenched fist bathed in the red, white and green of Mexico’s flag and decorated with the nation’s emblematic […]
Source: Time By Karl Vick We could talk all day about numbers. Were 250,000 people on hand to see Donald Trump take the oath, or more like the 1.5 million […]
by ALEXANDER SMITH Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.” Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in 1991, wrote the comments in an opinion piece for Time magazine. Mikhail Gorbachev AFP/Getty Images “More […]
Source: BBC By Vanessa Engle At exactly 11:15, the front door of a council flat in Brixton opened. Two women stepped out on to a quiet residential street. The younger […]
By Asad Jamal When a high court upholds the conviction and death sentence of a woman from a poor as well as politically and socially marginalised religious minority in a highly […]
Source: Herald By Alizeh Kohari Even though the rally had ended late, even though the night sky over Gangapur was turning translucent, Falak Sher’s wife insisted we stop by her house […]
Posted: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 An MP has urged the Scottish Government to take action after Tanver Ahmed, who killed Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah, released another anti-Ahmadi recording from prison. Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh has written to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Michael Matheson MSP, urging him to […]
MARKAZ Daniel L. Byman Wednesday, January 4, 2017 MARKAZ Editor’s Note:President-elect Donald Trump and some of his senior advisors have stressed the need to focus on radical Islam and criticized President Obama for avoiding that specific label, writes Dan Byman. It is tempting to dismiss the newcomers’ views as naïve and bigoted, but […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS Federica Saini Fasanotti Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Last week, the Italian government reopened the embassy in Tripoli, the first to do so after the majority of Libya’s embassies closed in 2015. A number of Libyans exploited the news with a media war and talk of neo-colonialism. They couldn’t […]
MARKAZ Kenneth M. Pollack Wednesday, January 25, 2017 I had assumed that Mr. Trump’s assertion on the campaign trail that the United States should have taken and kept Iraq’s oil was nothing but electioneering. The fact that he has repeated it as president suggests that he may actually believe it’s […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS The disastrous ripple effects of Trump’s executive action on refugee resettlement Elizabeth Ferris Thursday, January 26, 2017 The international refugee system, constructed in the aftermath of World War II, has enabled millions of refugees in every region to find safety in other countries. President Trump’s expected action to […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON JANUARY 27, 2017 The Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP) is governed by an international Board of Directors chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. The Global Centre for Pluralism is an independent, not-for-profit international research and education centre located in Ottawa, Canada. Inspired by the example […]
Hazrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih III, passed away into the Mercy of Allah on June 8, 1982. The present Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam is Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V. 1983 Published by Alhaj Ata Ullah Kaleem Ameer & Muballigh Incharge the Ahmadiyya Movement […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on U.S. refugees and immigration could severely affect Pakistanis who plan on visiting the United States. A draft copy of the executive order published by L.A. Times describes how U.S. visas could be denied to those who engage in “persecution of those who practice […]
CNN’s Van Jones hosts “The Messy Truth” and discusses what is currently going on in the US. Suggested Reading The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islam!
By Reza Aslan, who is the author of “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” and the host of CNN’s new original series “Believer With Reza Aslan,” which […]
Jan 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday was another milestone in relations between the two countries and underpinned the fact that the two leaders have a shared vision on many issues and, most importantly, on regional conflicts, […]
Source: Dawn No matter how much he tries to portray himself as a champion of the white working class, US President Donald Trump is pitting himself against his country’s heritage with his latest executive orders against immigrants. Given his way, which is now a foregone conclusion that he will get, […]
Reuters International JAN 27, 2017 – 10:38 JAKARTA (Reuters) – A former Indonesian finance ministry official has been detained on his return home after being deported from Turkey for trying to cross into Syria on suspicion of intending to join Islamic State, Indonesian authorities said on Friday. Police identified the […]