Holy Qur’an in Luganda Language – The Message to Mankind from Allah, the Almighty
Source: alislam.org Continue reading the Luganda language Qur’an Translation: The Holy Quran translated into Luganda
Ghana: President women’s wing of Ahmadiyya: “Give priority to Girls’s education”
Source: ghanaweb.com She was speaking at the closing ceremony of the third annual regional conference of the Nasirat-Ul Ahmadiyya, which is made up of girls aged between 5-15 years in Kumasi. The Ashanti […]
Nigeria: Ahmadiyya warns Federal Government: Don’t negotiate with Boko Haram!
Source: punchng.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria has warned the Federal Government against negotiating with the Boko Haram insurgents, explaining that this will be against the national interest as well as Islamic principles. The Head of the society, Dr. Mashhud Fashola, gave this warning on Tuesday at a press conference in […]
Boko Haram’s actions are counter to Islam
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Sohail Z Husain: The writer is president of the Scientists Association of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and a member of the Muslim Writers Guild of America As a Muslim, I was shocked to read that a so-called Muslim group in Nigeria, Boko Haram, which literally translates […]
How to combat Nigeria’s Boko Haram: Column
Usa Today: The world has been gripped by the deplorable story evolving in Nigeria about the mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls between the ages of 16 and 18. Their “crime” was simply that they were girls and had the audacity to seek an education. Meet Boko Haram, the […]
Don’t Blame Islam for Boko Haram
Source: The Huffington Post Dr. Faheem Younus: Muslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist When the news broke that over 200 girls had been abducted by Boko Haram, I was prepared for some Islamophobic rhetoric from the Spencer/Gellar ilk. What I was not expecting were Pulitzer prize winners like Leonard Pitts, even for once, falling for the […]
Missing schoolgirls converted to Islam
Source: Hindustan Times: Detailed news LINK The militant leader said that Boko Haram’s brothers in arms had been held in prison for up to five years and suggested that the girls would be released if the fighters were freed. “We will never release them (the girls) until after you […]
The Boko Haram Terrorists Are Not ‘Islamic’
Source: The Daily Beast: Attention members of the media: Kindly stop referring to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram as “Islamic terrorists,” “Islamists” or anything else involving the word “Islam.” The despicable acts taken by this militant group—from kidnapping schoolgirls to slaughtering people at churches and mosques—have absolutely nothing to […]
Nigeria: Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya condemns Nyanya attacks
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Why dictators hold elections: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Bashar al-Assad and the façade of legitimacy
It is easy to be cynical about candidates winning 80 per cent of the vote but for some Middle East regimes the appearance of democracy is enough to secure the covert backing of Western powers Why do dictators love elections? It’s an old question in the Middle East, but it […]
What Prophet Muhammad would say to Boko Haram
Source: Fox News By Qasim Rashid: I found myself awake at 3 am, reading the names of my Nigerian daughters—hundreds of them. Some shared the same name as my wife, Ayesha. […]
What are you doing, judges of Egypt, by abetting repression?
May 08, 2014 12:19 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The conduct of the courts and judges in Egypt during the past three years is a critical element to watch as the country pursues its tortuous route toward a pluralistic constitutional democracy. Most of us are […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at condemns killing of students by Boko Haram
By Prince Okedinachi March 2, 2014 20:18:23pm GMT WorldStage Newsonline– Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria has condemned the killing of students in Yobe State and other attacks by the Boko Haram […]
Muslim scholars condemn Boko Haram’s ‘heinous’ acts
JEDDAH: HABIB SHAIKH Published — Thursday 8 May 2014 Religious scholars working under the world’s largest bloc of Islamic countries on Thursday denounced the mass kidnappings of Nigerian girls by an extremist group claiming to be fighting for Islam. The group called Boko Haram seized more than 200 pupils from […]
Dear Boko Haram: You’re Spitting in the Face of Muhammad
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 […]
For Muslims, Boko Haram is disgrace
Source: CNN (CNN) – Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have, and we’re utterly certain that it condemns kidnapping young girls and selling them into slavery – no matter what you say “Allah” tells you. According to Amnesty International, […]
NEW NIGERIA OUTRAGE
Source: CNN Boko Haram militants reportedly kill at least 150 people as authorities offer a $310,000 reward to help find abducted girls. More:
Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria pose the greatest risk of exporting wild poliovirus
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan to set up polio vaccination points at airports Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry said Tuesday. The WHO had warned on May 5 that the crippling disease has re-emerged as […]
Is there any hope for Nigeria?
Source: CNN Protesters in a “million-woman march” on Wednesday, April 30, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, highlight the government’s failure to rescue scores of girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in mid-April. Militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of night at a high school in […]
Nigeria: Muslim Students Call for National Fasting Over Chibok Girls
The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSS), yesterday urged Nigerians to embark on fasting and prayer for the safe return of the students abducted in Chibok, Borno, on April 14. Malam Abdulazeez Folayemi, President of the society made the call in Minna during a lecture to mark the Diamond Jubilee […]