Source: Dawn.Com WASHINGTON: A US congressional panel has demanded cutting off all US assistance to Pakistan to persuade Islamabad to act against the Afghan Taliban groups allegedly using its territory to launch operations into Afghanistan, a move that Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz says is motivated by “baseless concerns” of […]
Source: Zahir Mannan, USA Peace & Justice Interfaith Symposium Saturday, July 16th at 7 PM Holy Angels Catholic Church South Meriden “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me!” All of us are concerned about the violence in our country targeting different groups of innocent people; the […]
Report by: Azhar Ahmad, Chicago “Win the pleasure of God and serve humanity” – this is the lesson from the blessed month of Ramzan, said Imam Shamshad Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As President Barrack Hussein Obama speaks, with whom I share my middle name, First Lady Michelle Obama, Ex. […]
Source: The Daily Beast For years Republicans have mercilessly mocked President Obama for his use of teleprompters, but now that Donald Trump needs one to stay on task, they say, it’s completely different. “I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters,” Donald Trump, […]
Source. Asia Times Putin’s phone call put Obama in a fix just as he was preparing to leave for Warsaw for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from July 8-9.This was not the moment when Obama can afford to be seen discussing with Putin the nitty-gritty […]
Source: The Daily Beast While his may have been in awful taste, Donald Trump is not the first to use a religious symbol for less than altruistic reasons. I have a theory about Donald Trump’s success. I think that one reason he manages to survive the terrible things he says […]
To mark this year’s Eid al-Fitr, the July 6 celebration concluding the fasting month of Ramadan, a Canadian Muslim charity is giving $250,000 to the people of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray. […]
Published July 5th, 2016 – 07:00 GMT via SyndiGate.info Men in kandooras, the traditional Emirati dress. (AFP/File) Ahmed Al Menhali , An Emirati man who was arrested by US Police over false accusations of being linked to Daesh refused to accept apology from American officials. Speaking over the phone, Ahmed […]
Source: Yonkers Tribune. QUEENS, NY — July 3, 2016 — Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA mourns the passing of the President of its Queens, New Yorkcommunity, Nazir Ahmad Ayaz, who passed away in Manhattan, NY, on July 3, 2016, at the age of 69. From God we are and to God […]
Epigraph: “Indeed, Islam rests on the foundation of Tauheed, the oneness of God, oneness of universe and oneness of mankind with liberty and justice. If Quran, the holy book of […]
On July 1, 2016, hundreds of people gathered for celebrations at Baitul Islam mosque in Vaughan. This year, the celebrations were extra special for the Muslim community because they coincided with the […]
Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn dissects the “age of disintegration” that gave us Brexit and Donald Trump. PATRICK COCKBURN JUL. 2, 2016 Margus Johanson/Thinkstock This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and […]
Source. Canada Day also coincides with last Friday of Ramadan this year CBC News Posted: Jul 01, 2016 7:30 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 01, 2016 7:30 PM ET Play Media Syrian refugees in the GTA celebrated their first Canada Day along with the Ahmadiyya Canadian Muslim community. Syrian family […]
Source. ET You do not speak for us,” said Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) at a press conference in Washington, DC on June 14. “You do not represent us.” This statement came in the wake of the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando gay […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada has launched a national campaign titled, “Fast with a Muslim Friend”, for Canadians to participate in Ramadan with their fellow Muslims. Starting June 18, 2015. […]
Source: Huffington Post Hint: It involves actually getting to know Muslim Americans. By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Leave it to Samantha Bee to tear down Islamophobia […]
And more solidly constitutional, too. Updated by Dara Lind on June 30, 2016 @DLind dara@vox.com STOP in the name of Trump.(Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Muslim ban isn’t a Muslim ban anymore. It’s a much more — terrifyingly — workable policy. In 2015, Trump proposed a “total and […]
Three Swiss women who have converted to Islam explain their views on what practices and beliefs are rooted in religion, and what are simply local traditions. Nora Illi is […]