It’s election year in Canada – and a lot of Canadians are tired of Mr Harper’s uncritical pro-Israeli policies ROBERT FISK MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT THE INDEPENDENT Sunday 30 August 2015 Marwa Fahmy is a feisty lady. She needs to be after the shock and tears of Saturday’s Egyptian […]
People light candles in front of the police station in Eisenstadt, Austria, after the bodies of more than 70 migrants were discovered in a truck. (Ronald Zak/AP) By Anthony Faiola and Griff Witte August 29 at 8:48 AM KECSKEMET, Hungary — Pressure to change Europe’s dysfunctional asylum system grew […]
Peace prize winner urges investment in aquaculture to solve global hunger Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta, an Indian fisheries scientist, won the first-ever Sunhak Peace Prize. (Image: http://sunhakprize.com/) more > By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – – Friday, August 28, 2015 One of the winners of a major new international peace award […]
On Wednesday 5th August 2015, the Jamaat of Mauritius held an Eid dinner for guests at the Nusrat Mosque in Quatre Bornes. Over one hundred guests attended the event, including the guest of honour the Acting Prime Minister, the Honourable Xavier Luc Duval. The Speaker of the National Assembly, the […]
August 23, 2015 PUNJAB NEWS EXPRESS Punjab News Express LONDON: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad today announced that over 567,000 have joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the past year. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad made the announcement during […]
Epigraph: Whoever kills an innocent person, it would be as if he or she has triggered a genocide. (Al Quran 5:33) WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward […]
Splendid progress for Islam Ahmadiyya in 2014; added 576,330 new converts, 401 new mosques Source: Ahmadiyya Times 576,330 souls have joined the folds of Islam Ahmadiyya during 2014 and the […]
Mali’s Islamist conflict spreads as new militant group emerges By Reuters – Aug 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Malian Defence Minister Tieman Coulibaly (centre) surveys the damage after a hotel siege over the weekend in which 17 people died in Sevare, Mali in this August 11 file photo (Reuters photo) BAMAKO/SEVARE […]
War begets refugees Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. […]
August 17, 2015 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Today, Egypt’s al-Sisi imposed strict anti-terrorism laws. The laws establish special courts and […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
The Travels of Ibn Battuta A Virtual Tour with the 14th Century Traveler GALLERY | SIDE TRIPS | RESOURCES | ABOUT 1 MOROCCO ACROSS NORTH AFRICA (1325) CAIRO, EGYPT (1326) 2 ON TO SYRIA AND PALESTINE (1326) THE HAJJ: MEDINA TO MECCA (1326) 3 PERSIA AND IRAQ (1326 – 1327) […]
By Harris Raja In an article published in the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Islam needs a reformation, Ayaan Hirsi listed five areas of Islam that “require amendment.” Hirsi is […]
Abdullah al-Senussi execution: This perversion of justice suits Western security services just fine The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafi’s torturers will now remain safe for good BY ROBERT FISK Shutting them up. That’s what it’s about. The hangman’s drop, the crackle of the firing squad, and their secrets […]
Guardian: Africa is now home to more than 160,000 people with personal fortunes worth in excess of $1m (£642,000), a twofold increase in the number of wealthy individuals since the turn of the century that highlights the problem of deepening inequality as some of the world’s poorest nations register strong economic […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Global Issues: by Wambi Michael — KAMPALA, Aug 07 (IPS) – After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has […]
Ahram Online , Thursday 6 Aug 2015 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waves as he arrives to the opening ceremony of the New Suez Canal, in Egypt August 6, 2015 (Reuters) Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Thursday that the New Suez Canal, apart from its expected economic and strategic […]
Tunisian firms prepare to issue Islamic bonds BY BERNARDO VIZCAINO Aug 3 Tunisian firms are preparing to issue Islamic bonds as the government finalises rules covering the sector, creating a new funding option for companies in an economy buffeted by labour unrest and militant attacks. Islamic finance – which bars […]