CAIRO — Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious centre of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile. The call, made at a Cairo conference organised by Al Azhar, came just days after Pope Francis […]
ROBERT FISK Thursday 04 December 2014 Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man. And so he should be. He says that he and his two colleagues from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera channel – Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed – were imprisoned by the Egyptians to “teach Qatar a lesson” because the emirate […]
Source: CNN Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — A car packed with explosives sped into a United Nations convoy near Mogadishu airport Wednesday morning, claiming at least four lives in the ensuing explosion, police said. Three of the dead were civilians; one was a security force member, said Police Col. Mohamed Hassan. […]
Agence France Presse CAIRO: The head of Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious centers of Sunni learning, Wednesday condemned “barbaric crimes” committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Militants are acting “under the guise of this holy religion and have given themselves the name ‘Islamic State’ in an attempt to […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Just after midnight on December 2, about 20 gunmen from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab rousted awake miners sleeping in a tented camp at a quarry near the border town of Mandera. According to witnesses, the attackers separated the Muslims from the non-Muslims. Those unable to […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Lebanese authorities have arrested a wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the man spearheading the Islamist terror group’s sweeping rampage across Syria and Iraq — said a source with knowledge of the arrest. The woman is one of al-Baghdadi’s two wives. Her arrest came […]
chrisngwodo.blogspot.co.uk: A kingdom can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice. […]
Source: The Guardian Dozens of people are feared dead after three bomb blasts near one of the biggest mosques in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist militants Boko Haram. Witnesses said heavy smoke could be seen billowing into the sky from a long […]
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nationalmirroronline.net: In this interview with National Mirror, the Amir, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, Dr. Mashhud Adenrele Fashola speaks on some critical issues that threaten the economic and political stability of the […]
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in the 29 countries. This number excludes the countless numbers who die during the procedure. The practice is […]
Source:Ghana Web The Ameer and Missionary-In-Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Ghana, Alhaj Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih, has reiterated the commitment of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission to rally fully behind the National Chief Imam Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu in his quest for a harmonious and united Muslim front to […]
Source: allafrica.com By Chinyere Abiaziem Lagos — Disturbed by the state of the nation especially as the 2015 elections, are getting closer, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Communty has called on Nigerians, especially politicians to shun selfishness and activities that expose citizens’ lives and properties to danger. The group also advised the […]
AFP | Nov 22, 2014, 06.42AM IST Computer scientist Fatma Ben Guefrache was announced the winner and received a prize which includes a gold watch, a gold dinar, and mini pilgrimage to Mecca. PRAMBANAN: A Tunisian woman called for a free Palestine as she won a pageant exclusively for Muslims in Indonesia on Friday, seen as […]
BBC News: The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is a bid to start a religious war, a senior adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta has told the BBC. Abdikadir Mohammed called on Kenyans of “all faiths and creeds” to stand together against the “heinous crimes”. At dawn […]
BBC News: Tunisians are voting in the country’s first presidential election since the 2011 “Arab Spring” that triggered uprisings across the region. More than 25 candidates are in the race, but incumbent Moncef Marzouki and anti-Islamist leader Beji Caid Essebsi are widely seen as the favourites. The poll forms part […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Islamist militants ambushed a bus in Kenya on Saturday and sprayed bullets on those who failed to recite Quran verses, killing at least 28 people, authorities said. The bus, which had 60 people aboard, was heading from Mandera, near the Somali border, to the capital of […]
Source: BBC Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say. Four people died in the stadium in the central town of Kwekwe, while seven others were declared dead on arrival in hospital, they say. The stampede occurred as thousands […]
By Mirco Keilberth, Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Christoph Reuter Chaos, disillusionment and oppression provide the perfect conditions for Islamic State. Currently, the Islamist extremists are expanding from Syria and Iraq into North Africa. Several local groups have pledged their allegiance. The caliphate has a beach. It is located on the […]
Source: allafrica.com Newly appointed Ameer and Missionary in charge of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, Maulvi Alhaji Mohammed Bin Salih has visited the Eastern Region to officially meet members and interact with […]