AFP/Getty Images Broken Land Five years after the uprising that led to the downfall of Qaddafi, Libya is a failed state, torn apart by rival militias. ISIS is growing stronger by the day, and poorly armed makeshift militias are all that stand in its way. BuzzFeed News’ Borzou Daragahi reports […]
Epigraph: So show your love for the stranger or foreigner, for you were foreigner in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor […]
Americans Rate Jews Highest, Muslims Lowest On ‘Feeling Thermometer,’ Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post But views of both have gotten better A new […]
Source: Reuters International and Swiss Info By Luke Baker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said […]
HELP FOR VICTIMS By Isobel Leybold-Johnson FEB 16, 2017 – 11:00 A widespread issue – Moroccan women look at photographs of under-age brides during an exhibition in Rabat (AFP) When Jasmin D, a young woman of Tamil origin faced a forced marriage, she found support from the Bern city authorities. […]
For reading the full book, please click here: https://www.alislam.org/library/books/IslamsResponseToContemporaryIssues.pdf by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV. Foreword to the Present Edition Hadrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rh, the fourth successor […]
Source: Telegraph This is an old news from 2015 By Robert Tait, Jerusalem Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churches The leader of a far-Right Israeli group has risked arrest by apparently voicing support for […]
There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump’s […]
Stewart Bell | February 16, 2017 | HandoutA mob attacked the minority Ahmadiyya community’s mosque in Dulmial village, Chakwal. TORONTO — Rashid Ahmed answered the phone at his suburban home in Mississauga this week, which would not be unusual except for the fact that he is being investigated by Pakistani […]
BY NIMIRA DEWJI POSTED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2017 Carpets were probably first made by nomadic peoples to cover the earthen floor in their tents and to keep them warm. By the fifth century BCE, carpet making was a highly artistic craft. The oldest surviving carpet is believed to be one […]
Source: LA Times After a tense campaign marred by religious protests and phone-tapping allegations made by a former president, Indonesia’s capital will have to wait two more months to learn who will run the city of 10 million people. Incumbent Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as “Ahok,” will face a runoff […]
LOCAL NEWS VALENCIA WICKER PUBLISHED: 02/16/17 12:26 AM EST. Every Wednesday evening, the first floor lobby of the Rardin Family Practice Center is turned into a registration area for patients in need of free healthcare. “The motivation is to serve people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and from different […]
Source: http://wnyt.com/news/muslim-community-dialogue-aims-to-combat-stereotypes-about-islam/4401514/ Muslim community dialogue aims to combat stereotypes about Islam February 15, 2017 11:43 PM AMSTERDAM — “The understanding of the Muslim faith is not so good in the eyes of Americans,” said Dr. Hafeez Rehman, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Albany Chapter. For more than a month Muslim […]
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Source: BBC A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 70 people, police say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine […]
Source: Aljazeera Alexandre Bissonnette was not charged with terrorism although his attack in Quebec has all the elements of a terror act. A man cries while he prays at the […]
Source: http://blackburnnews.com/windsor/windsor-news/2017/02/15/run-windsor-hit-citys-riverfront/ Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj (left), Pasha Qureshi (middle) and Windsor City Councillor Fred Francis (right) announce the first annual Run For Windsor, February 15, 2017. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld) Run For Windsor To Hit City’s Riverfront BY MIKE VLASVELDFEBRUARY 15, 2017 4:00PM@MikeVlasveld A new running event is […]
Source: BBC A US district judge in Virginia has ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring entry from seven countries is unconstitutional. Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a preliminary injunction, […]
Source: http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/meetamuslim-campaign-comes-to-uwm Rikki Mitchell 4:38 PM, Feb 15, 2017 6:52 PM, Feb 15, 2017 MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Young Muslims across the country are opening themselves up to questions, by standing with signs that say “Meet a Muslim.” The hashtag has been spread hundreds of times on social media and on Wednesday, […]
Source: CNN By Sonia Moghe and Wayne Drash, Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)Ben Neal’s laptop lights up with emergency calls. A paramedic and supervisor with Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services, Neal activates the […]