Islamic call to prayer being heard for the first time across Canada
Source: CP24 By Laura Osman The Al Rashid Mosque has stood in Edmonton since 1938, but no one there today can remember ever hearing the daily call to prayer ring […]
Facts From Fiction : Our Kalima (Creed) has Never Changed
Raziullah Noman- Canada 13th May 2020 – REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Recently, there has been storm of allegations against Islam Ahmadiyyat in Pakistan. One of the false allegations which has […]
Harford County settles suit over anti-Muslim bias in Joppatowne development
by Bryna Zumer Thursday, May 14th 2020 “Our elders are the ones who are interested in buying houses that are on sale,” Imam Abdullah Dibba told FOX45 in 2017. […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Detroit organizes Centennial Interfaith Iftar – Virtual Reflections on the Power of Prayer
Report by Muhammad Ahmad. Detroit Michigan Detroit Jamaat held its Centennial Interfaith Iftar titled ‘Virtual Reflections on the power of prayer during the Pandemic’ on Saturday, May 9, 2020. This event was part of the nationwide centennial celebrations held across all chapters of the US Jamaat on the same day. […]
US anti-Semitic acts hit record high
Source: Dawn NEW YORK: The United States saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents last year, including a sharp spike in physical attacks, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said on Tuesday in its annual report.The ADL, which works to protect Jewish communities, recorded 2,107 acts of anti-Semitism in the US in […]
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, kindness isn’t just a virtue – it may heal the global economy
If businesses want to become more humane as well as productive, corporate leaders should feel obligated to credit every person in the supply chain for setting up their empire The […]
Book Review: Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years
By John Philip Jenkins, who is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor’s Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for […]
Where Biden would break from Trump on Israel
Biden has made no secret of his opposition to the Trump peace plan. By HERB KEINON MAY 7, 2020 – THE JERUSALEM POST One of the cardinal tenets of American […]
If we want more tolerance, children need to read stories of world views outside of their own
We all fall for a good story. But why are we still finding that some narratives take precedence over others? If we want more tolerance, children need to read stories of world views outside of their own I wrote a children’s book about inspiring Muslim women to challenge stereotypes and […]
The Iraq War fifteen years on: “America destroyed my country”
Fifteen years ago, on 20 March 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon describes the pain of watching his country disintegrate in […]
Video: What is the concept of heaven in Islam?
An interesting relevant lecture by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV, may Allah be pleased with him. Suggested reading Maulana Tariq Jameel’s Extreme Physical Paradise: Do We Need Better Theology? […]
Palestinians are a ‘demographic’ threat to Israel, say leading advocates
Liberal supporters of Israel warn of Jews being overwhelmed by Palestinian births By Philip Weiss April 28, 2020 The “demographic” argument for a two-state solution is the expressed fear that […]
Jumbo jet sunset: coronavirus hastens the end of the Boeing 747
Stricken carriers are grounding their ageing, four-engine Richard Branson and Kate Moss on the wing of a jumbo jet in 2009. All Virgin Atlantic’s 747s are now grounded. […]
Breast Milk is a Life Saver for Young Children during Covid-19
by ismailimail Posted on May 9, 2020 By Dr. Shela Hirani (PhD, IBCLC, RN, Associate Professor, University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing, Canada) The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the vulnerability […]
Trump’s America Now Leads the World—in Suicidal Stupidity
Source: The Beast “American exceptionalism” is the general idea that the United States is different from other countries, endowed with special traits, better, superior. It goes back—well, actually, people debate how far it goes back. But there’s no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under […]
Allies despair as Trump abandons America’s leadership role at a time of global crisis
Source: CNN The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts. The US — usually at the head of the […]
‘His head wasn’t in the world of reality’: how the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart
Deeply flawed from the start, the audacious plan to overthrow Nicolás Maduro unraveled spectacularly Julian Borger in Washington, Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá and Chris McGreal Fri 8 May […]
When you’re a Muslim American mom coordinating Ramadan in Texas during coronavirus, nothing is simple
I’m in the league of mothers who are trying to balance an incredibly difficult load of work that we’d never planned on — while trying to infuse my first-generation American […]
A better world can emerge after coronavirus. Or a much worse one
Timothy Garton Ash Most Europeans support a universal basic income, yet young people doubt democracy’s capacity to deliver change @fromTGA Wed 6 May 2020 GUARDIAN The coronavirus crisis seems to […]