Editor’s Pick: Biological Evolution and Religion
Epigraph: What is the matter with you that you expect not wisdom and staidness from Allah? While He has created you in different forms and ever varying states? (Al Quran 71:14-15) Lead […]
Breaking News: Islamic State ‘caliph’ killed in air strike?
Source: Arab news: “The information is from unofficial sources and was not confirmed until now, and we are working on that,” the official said. More:
Will prefer brains, not blondes
Source: TOI If he knows what’s good for him, the modern gentleman will prefer brains, not blondes -according to a new study of marriage. In what may be interpreted as both a victory for feminism and a sign that men now stand even less chance of winning an argument with […]
Canadian Muslims hold Remembrance Day ceremonies to honour soldiers
Source: metronews.ca | torontosun.com Canadian Muslims gathered across the country today to pay their respects to Canada’s soldiers as eight mosques with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held their own respective Remembrance Day ceremonies […]
World Religion in America: The Second Generation
Huff Post: by Jim Burklo — She looked the part of a fine arts major, with the gold spangle in her nostril, the streak of purple in her jet-black hair, and her bespoke clothing. Her diminutive form and high voice gave no hint of the feisty energy that would pour […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslims raise money for veterans at mosques
Source: torontosun.com TORONTO – Don Baker, a member of the Woodbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion whose father is a D-Day veteran, watched quietly as hundreds of Ahmadiyya Muslims kneeled in prostration […]
Mythbusters: Bill Maher Edition
Huff Post: by Omar Sarwar — If Maher is the genuine liberal he claims to be, he should live up to the ideals of compassion, fairness, and toleration by reassessing his superficial view of Islam and the Muslim world. Bill Maher is at it again. On the latest episode of his show, Real […]
AMJ Remembrance Day campaign in Barrie ON
Building Better Bridges in Barrie-4 Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched its fourth annual Muslims for Remembrance Day campaign in Barrie, Ontario to remember and show support for […]
AMJ Peace & Harmony Rally- Building Bridges in Barrie
Building Bridges in Barrie Ontario- 4 On Saturday November 8 2014. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Barrie will show case a Peace & Harmony Rally at the local City Halll at […]
Calgary Imam offers checklist to warn of radicalization
Imam Syed Soharwardy of Calgary wants Islamic converts to quiz imams on their views and avoid recruitment by terrorist Islamic State Thestar.com 2014/11/07 Jeff McIntosh / THE CANADIAN PRESS Imam Syed Soharwardy, leader of The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, has a checklist to help converts quiz their imam. By: […]
A pump war?
by Thomas Friedman The New York Times Is it just my imagination or is there a global oil war underway pitting the United States and Saudi Arabia on one side against Russia and Iran on the other? One can’t say for sure whether the American-Saudi oil alliance is deliberate or […]
Canada closes the door on polygamous immigrants
JEDDAH: MD AL-SULAMI Published — Friday 7 November 2014 ARABNEWS OTTAWA: Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has unveiled plans to ban entry to migrants who practice polygamy and what he termed “barbaric cultural practices.” The move follows a spate of so-called “honor” killings over the past decade involving immigrant families […]
I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong.
Washington Post: I knew the day would come, but I didn’t know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I would respond. It is the moment that every black parent fears: the day their child is called a nigger. My wife and I, both African Americans, constitute one […]
Some of the earliest capitalist innovations in Italy—like rules on issuing credit—were imported from the Abbasid caliphate
The Economist: Capitalism through the ages A grand tour Experts look back at the economic system that dominates the Western world The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williamson.Cambridge University Press; 1,400 pages; £150. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ECONOMICS publishing has recently undergone a great democratisation. […]
US navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden unmasked
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: A decorated ex-navy Seal Robert O’Neill has been unmasked as the man who pumped three shots to the head of elusive al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden during a top-secret 2011 raid on his hideout in Pakistan. O’Neill, 38, is the SEAL Team Six member who fired the […]
The Astonishing story of the Prophet comes to Saskatoon
Free program meant to promote peace By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat National Publications Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association, Canada Saskatoon’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community is inviting people to learn about Islam […]
World Religion in America: The Second Generation
The Huffington Post: She looked the part of a fine arts major, with the gold spangle in her nostril, the streak of purple in her jet-black hair, and her bespoke […]
Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden named as Rob O’Neill
BY Melanie Kembrey THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD The Navy SEAL who says he shot and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been identified as Rob O’Neill. US network Fox […]
Why Can’t the Pentagon Kill the Islamic State’s Top Commanders? The U.S. military takes out terrorist leaders around the world, but it’s been unable to cut the head off of the Islamic State.
The United States and its coalition partners have conducted close to 800 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, hitting command-and-control facilities, training compounds, armored vehicles, oil refineries, supply trucks, artillery pieces, and bunkers. But there’s a notable absence from the target list: the Islamic State’s top leaders. […]