“Nothing justifies this barbaric and inhumane attack,” said Nasim Rehmatullah, vice president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the US. Source: albawaba.com “Islam and the Prophet Muhammad teach that life is sacrosanct, and Islam specifically forbids any worldly […]
Source: independent.co.uk Dated: 08.01.15 An American group that claims to represent the interests of US Catholics has criticised the French magazine where 12 people were killed yesterday, arguing that the victims “provoked” their own slaughter. In a statement released yesterday headlined “Muslims are right to be angry”, Bill Donohue, the […]
Source: ahmadiyya.us Calls for prayer, patience, and dialogue to overcome extremism The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA categorically condemns the barbaric attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, and mourns with the families of the victims. Reports indicate that two culprits have killed at least 12 innocent civilians and injured several more. The Community […]
Recent terrorist attacks around the world prompted the Saskatoon Ahmadiyya Muslim Students’ Association to start an education campaign in hopes of ending radicalization. Aaron Streck reports. Source: globalnews.ca SASKATOON – Recent terrorist attacks around the world prompted the Saskatoon Muslim group to start an education campaign in hopes of ending radicalization. […]
Source: latimes.com Muslim advocacy groups across the U.S. joined the chorus of voices condemning an attack on a satirical magazine in France that left 12 people dead on Wednesday, calling the morning shootings “cowardly” and “inhumane.” Nihad Awad, executive director of the Washington D.C. based Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the […]
“We denounce [the attacks], and we don’t think it is the right away to express anything,” said Dr. Mohammad Iqbal AlNadvi, chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams. Source: thestar.com Toronto […]
NY Times: local newspaper Charlie Hebdo skewers people of all faiths and backgrounds. One cartoon showed rolls of toilet paper marked “Bible,” “Torah” and “Quran,” and the explanation: “In the toilet, all religions.” Yet when masked gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo’s officesin Paris on Wednesday with AK-47s, murdering 12 people in […]
By James Gallagher, Health editor, BBC News website The decades-long drought in antibiotic discovery could be over after a breakthrough by US scientists. Their novel method for growing bacteria has yielded 25 new antibiotics, with one deemed “very promising”. The last new class of antibiotics to make it to clinic was […]
Source: timescolonist.com A multi-faith conference in Victoria next Sunday will address issues of radicalization and unrest from six spiritual perspectives. “We feel a lack of belief and understanding is causing a social crisis, increasing crime and leading to things like what happened in Ottawa,” said organizer Rizwan Peerzada, referring to the […]
Source: star-telegram.com Resolution to serve As we are starting a new year and everyone is making New Year’s resolutions, many people have resolved to go to the gym, to lose weight […]
realpharmacy.com: by Sayer Ji — This humble, but immensely powerful seed, kills MRSA, heals the chemical weapon poisoned body, stimulates regeneration of the dying beta cells within the diabetic’s pancreas, and yet too few even know it exists. The seeds of the annual flowering plant, Nigella Sativa, have been prized […]
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN Updated 5:01 AM ET, Wed January 7, 2015 (CNN) The FBI is investigating an explosion outside a local NAACP chapter in Colorado. The makeshift bomb, or improvised […]
Source: New Age Islam The reaction against the Taliban attack that killed 132 children in Peshawar army school rekindled a question: if a breed of terrorists can kill so many children with such abandon and indiscriminate fury in the name of Islam, isn’t it time to distinguish the ‘good’ Muslim […]
Bob Elliott’s 101 most influential Canadians in baseball… Adnan Virk is # 47 1 By Bob Elliott, Toronto Sun http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/06/bob-elliotts-top-101-most-influential-canadians-in-baseball First posted: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 03:12 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 04:43 PM EST Russell Martin (DAN HAMILTON, USA Today) The Kansas City Royals were winning […]
(Reuters) – Growth in the U.S. services sector braked in December and new orders for manufactured goods fell for a fourth straight month in November, signs the economy lost some momentum in the fourth quarter. But with domestic demand picking up, against the backdrop of lower gasoline prices and firming […]
Kashifmd.com: Bigotry of any sort – whether based on race, gender, religion or ethnic background – is like cancer. It must be condemned in its start before it metastasizes and takes root in society. At this point, it is usually too late to cure the disease, which rapidly progresses to […]
It is a book review of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg (Knopf) Reviewed by Abbas Milani, who is s the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford […]
Source: USA Today For a dinosaur, celebrity status is usually achieved by being big, belligerent or both. The big headliners of 2014 were a dinosaur as massive as a 747 […]
More Evidence Supporting the House of Debt August 8, 2014 By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to […]
“The Astonishing Story of the Prophet” Muhammad, may peace be on him, will be presented in Montréal on January 11, 2015. For RSVP and details click here. This presentation was […]