Source: Washington Post By David Decosimo, who teaches religion, ethics and politics at Boston University and is currently writing a book on freedom and domination in Christianity and Islam. America’s […]
Source: Economist By Erasmus Learning from a Christian-Muslim debate on religious literacy YOU may find this reassuring, or disturbing, or something in between. Earlier this week, one of the most […]
Source: http://www.battlefordsnow.com/article/553262/islam-information-session-library By Angela Brown Curious to know more about Islam but don’t know who to ask? The Ahma’adiyya Muslim Jama’at missionary from Lloydminster is holding an information session at the North Battleford Library, called Islam Understood, to try to educate people on Islam. Tariq Azeem, of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’adiyya will give […]
Source: http://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=91540 Muslims Canvassing Owen Sound | by Claire McCormack About 30 youth will be canvassing Owen Sound apart of Islam Understood You may find a Muslim youth at your door this weekend. It’s part of the Nationwide ‘Islam Understood’ campaign put on by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association that aims […]
Source: http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/03/06/muslim-youth-make-house-calls-in-moose-jaw-as-national-outreach-continues/ By Carmel Kilkenny | english@rcinet.ca Muslim young people were visiting homes in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan yesterday in an effort to dispel the myths and misunderstandings about the second-largest religion, after Christianity, in the world. Ahmadi Muslims come from an Islamic religious movement established in Punjab, British India, near the […]
Source: http://www.championnewspapers.com/news/article_0cdbf52a-0055-11e7-9999-3fbb39159ae3.html By Marianne Napoles Amjad Khan was a little boy when he laid one of the first bricks in the foundation of the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino 30 years ago. Today, the 37-year-old raised in Chino Hills relishes his volunteer role as the national director of public affairs for […]
Source: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/03/210295/young-canadian-muslims-launch-door-door-education-initiative/ By Constance Renton – March 6, 2017 , 10:22 pm Toronto – Following the massacre in Quebec last month, which left six Muslim men dead and five others injured, Muslim youth across Canada launched a new initiative aimed at educating neighbors and community members about being a Muslim in Canada. The […]
Source: Time By Joyce Lee 11:02 AM PKT “Today, today is for the indigenous women. Today is for the black women. Today is for the Asian women and the Latina women,” writer and poet Jamara Mychelle Wakefield declared in front of a large crowd gathered in New York City’s Washington Square […]
Source: The New York Times By LESLEY HAZLETONMARCH Not just for Christians.CreditSnark/Art Resource, NY THE ISLAMIC JESUS How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims By […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR India has a long history of migration. More than a century ago, large numbers of Indian migrants – many of them involuntary ones […]
Source: http://www.orilliapacket.com/2017/03/06/youth-association-spreads-message-of-peace Youth association spreads message of peace By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Monday, March 6, 2017 6:04:22 EST PM Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association canvassing in Orillia Sunday. PATRICK BALES/THE PACKET & TIMES Orillia was one of 65 towns and cities in Canada to get […]
Source: Youtube This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. “Never give a “Speech”, says Richard Greene. In this masterful talk, he explains […]
Source: Reuters An Indonesian court has jailed three leaders of a group that Islamic clerics had called a deviant religious organization for up to five years for blasphemy, sparking condemnation […]
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN A banner calling for the boycott, divestment and sanctioning of Israel hanging from the Manhattan Bridge in New York during a protest […]
Source: Politico By STEPHEN PROTHERO It should have been a simple question: Last week, Trump counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka was asked by a radio host whether the president believed that […]
Source: Associated Press By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Muhammad Ali’s son and ex-wife declared a “showdown” over religious freedom against President Donald Trump a month after they were detained by immigration […]
Source: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/letters/ci_30838344/guest-column-i-decry-hatred-against-any-religion GUEST COLUMN: I decry hatred against any religion Sentinel & Enterprise | UPDATED: 03/06/2017 08:26:06 AM EST By Ijaz Ahmed Hundreds of tombstones were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia over the weekend. Hearing about this was both shocking and upsetting. As a Muslim American, I condemn […]
Epigraph: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:21 Suggested Reading Why Did Muhammad Fly to Jerusalem? CNN Documentary: […]
Source: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/15135810.Litter_pickers_unite_to_banish_dumped_rubbish/ A team from Ahmadiyya Muslim Community decided to pitch in, taking their litter-picking skills along Cowley Road on Saturday morning. LITTER pickers were out in force as they came together to banish unsightly rubbish cluttering and clogging up the city’s streets. Hundreds of people armed themselves with bin bags […]
Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/london-mp-calls-for-crackdown-on-extremists-radicalising-from-prison-cells-a3483086.html News >UK > FRANCESCA GILLETT London MP calls for crackdown on extremists radicalising from prison cells A south London MP is leading calls to crack down on radicalisation within UK prisons after an extremist killer preached hate from his jail cell. MPs heard how taxi driver Tanveer Ahmed was able to radicalise […]