Trudeau in India, meets Bollywood mega stars
Source: NDTV and others Written by Shruti Shiksha Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday met top business leaders and Bollywood celebrities in Mumbai during his week-long visit to India. […]
Agitator at large:
Source: Dawn Tahirul Qadri is a man of many hats. Priest, protester, politician, public orator. He wears each with the same conviction. He weaves in and out of Parliament, the country and the political landscape effortlessly. Well, almost. Sometimes it goes horribly wrong. In 2014, the Punjab police tried to […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Huddersfield South UK Opens its Mosque
Source Mr Fatihul Haq Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Huddersfield South held its Mosque Open Day on Sunday 18th February at Baitus Samad Mosque. By the grace of Allah over 25 guests attended the open day. Some of the Key members were Chief Superintendent of West Yorkshire Police, Steve Cotter, representation of […]
GHANA: Ahmadiyya Missionary Doctor; Mum Build Maternity Ward For Swedru
GN Dr Khan Rafi A. Sahibzada, the Medical Director of Agona Swedru Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Hospital, and his mother, Madam Naz Muhammad Zai, an Advocate of the Supreme Court of […]
Is Russia attempting to erase Crimean Muslim culture?
Crimean Tatars fear the Kremlin, after annexation, is chipping away at identity of the 250,000-strong Muslim ethnicity. by Mansur Mirovalev 18 Feb 2018 Russia’s restoration of the Big Khan Mosque […]
Jeremy Corbyn attacks Islamophobia during mosque visit
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Religion correspondent Labour leader highlights Islamophobia as ‘real problem in our society’ during open day Muslim women are facing routine racist abuse on the streets […]
How baby stroke survivors’ brains adapt
Source: BBC News A study of children who had strokes as babies has found they adapted to use a different part of their brain for language. Imaging revealed language was […]
Mitsutoki Shigeta: ‘Baby factory’ dad wins paternity rights
Source: BBC News A Bangkok court has awarded paternity rights to a Japanese man over 13 babies he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers. The ruling allows Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, to […]
The Back-Road Historic Mosques of China
By: Sheila Blair , Jonathan Bloom and Nancy Steinhardt In a country known for large numbers, it was a modest, round number that grabbed our attention: 100. That is […]
New Leader Of UK Far-Right Party Spouts Islamophobic Rhetoric
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla DOMINIC LIPINSKI – PA IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES Gerard Batten was chosen as interim leader of the U.K. Independence Party on Saturday. The new […]
USA: Islamic group launches hijab billboard campaign in Illinois
Islamic group launches hijab billboard campaign,” by Marcella Raymond, WGN, February 19, 2018:http://wgntv.com/2018/02/19/islamic-group-launches-hijab-billboard-campaign/ OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — A local Islamic group launched a billboard campaign Monday to educate people about the hijab, the headscarf that’s often worn by Muslim women. The billboards are the first of their kind in the country, designed […]
Ghana: Government will address challenges in Free SHS programme – Samira Bawumia
Samira Bawumia, Second Lady The Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has assured Ghanaians that the government was working towards addressing the teething challenges in the implementation of the […]
Advertising Standards Authority assesses dozens of complaints over ‘Messiah has come’ billboards
Source: Christian Today By Harry Farley Dozens of complaints have been launched over an Islamic advertising campaign claiming the ‘Messiah has come’. Launched by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a heavily […]
Can Israel go to war against Iran?
EMRE GÖNEN For the first time in a long while, Israel cannot count on clear backing from the U.S., because of the very hesitant and sometimes criminally unintelligible U.S. […]
Interfaith dialogue conference kicks off in Doha
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL People take part in Qatar’s National Day celebrations in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 18, 2017. (Reuters Photo) The 13th Doha International Interfaith Conference kicked off in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday, welcoming 500 participants from 50 countries. The two-day event, organized by […]
Israel announces ‘historic’ gas contract with Egypt
Contract valued at around $15b By AFP – Feb 19,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has struck an “historic” contract for sales of billions of dollars’ worth of […]
Fifteen years later
Feb 19,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Over the next few weeks, I want to take a look back to February and March of 2003, to those fateful days leading up to the Bush administration’s disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq. I remember all too well the lies […]
UK mosques must make space for women – not turn us away
Source: The Guardian By Remona Aly, who is a journalist and commentator with a focus on faith and lifestyle. She is also director of communications for Exploring Islam Foundation. Mosques […]
Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate Who Found Cell ‘ZIP Codes,’ Dies at 81
Günter Blobel, a molecular biologist who was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that proteins in any living cell have virtual ZIP codes that guide them to where they can help regulate body tissues, organs and chemistry, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 81. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/obituaries/gunter-blobel-nobel-laureate-who-found-cell-zip-codes-dies-laureate-who-found-cell-zip-codes-dies-at-81.html&eventName= A spokeswoman for […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Peace Conference in Jammu Kashmir
Source: Chaudhry H A Zafar In the city of Jammu which is the winter capital of Indian held Kashmir a peace conference was organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat India on 18.02.2018. Representatives from various walks of life participated in the conference. In the city beautiful banners with inspiring message of […]