Blessed Are the Meek, For They Will Inherit the Twitter
Epigraph: “So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable.” (Al Quran 87:10) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the Sermon on […]
Toronto: GTA top scholars: Meet the brainy bunch
A profile of the top students from around Greater Toronto. Toronto Star 2014/08/23 PHOTO COURTESY OF NATISA JEYAKANTHAN Natisa Jeyakanthan is a top student in the Durham District School Board. By: Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter, Published on Sat Aug 23 2014 Meet the brainy bunch. The top graduating students […]
Missouri police officer on leave over video in which he says: ‘I’m … a killer’
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/08/23/ctn-pkg-valencia-suspended-officer-video-comments.cnn By Greg Botelho, CNN updated 5:56 AM EDT, Sat August 23, 2014 (CNN) — A Missouri police officer involved in maintaining security in troubled Ferguson was put on administrative […]
Air strikes? Talk of God? Barack Obama is following the jihadists’ script after James Foley beheading
The President came the nearest he has come yet to rivalling George W Bush’s gormless reaction to 9/11 by Robert Fisk, The Indepedent The “caliphate” has some pretty tough theatrical producers. They write a bleak and savage script. Our job is now to respond to each line, and they understand […]
Pakistan Exploits ‘Failed State’ Image, Says U.S. Scholar
Christine Fair, a security affairs professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, has written extensively on Pakistan’s powerful army. Her new book, “Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War,” analyzes the ideological culture of the country’s security establishment. In an interview with RFE/RL correspondent Malali Bashir, Fair said Pakistan’s […]
Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding
Source: Stratfor: Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding, the United States and Iran have cooperated against a common jihadist enemy in the past, such as when they worked together to topple the Taliban regime following the 9/11 attacks. Relations quickly soured again when U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration declared the […]
5 disturbing stats on black-white inequality
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2014/08/15/ferguson-missouri-race-economic-divide-poverty-income-unemployment-segregation.cnnmoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have laid bare America’s ongoing racial divide. One source of that tension is the large financial gap between black and white Americans. […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (21) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Macy’s settles racial profiling allegations from shoppers
Source: BBC Macy’s is to pay $650,000 (£390,000) to settle claims it racially profiled and detained ethnic minority shoppers at its flagship Manhattan shop. Under a deal with New York’s […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community concludes its 66th USA Annual Convention
Posted by Salma Javid Khan Source: examiner.com Amidst the continued unrest in the Middle East and many other parts of the world, a group of Muslims came together for a three-day convention […]
Going to Commit Suicide: Will God Pardon Me?
Question: As-salamu `alaykum. It’s that I need some hope for the hereafter. I am going to be committing suicide in the coming days, and I just want to know if there is hope for me in the Day of Judgment and the hereafter. I have been considering suicide for years […]
Foley execution boosts European support for intervention in Iraq
Global Post: BERLIN, Germany — European leaders reacted to the execution of an American journalist with shock and horror Wednesday. A spokeswoman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “horrified” by the video depicting James Foley’s beheading by members of the militant group Islamic State, or IS, released on YouTube on […]
Obama Denounces James Foley’s Execution: ‘Today The Entire World Is Appalled’
President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday on the execution of American journalist James Foley at the hands of Islamic State militants, warning the group that they have “no place in the […]
Macy’s to pay $650,000 for racial profiling
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Macy’s must pay a $650,000 fine to settle complaints that it’s staffers wrongfully accused minority shoppers of stealing. New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman started to investigate Macy’s, which has 42 stores in New York State, in February 2013 after receiving complaints about racial profiling. “The office […]
Ontario Dr Khurram Sher found not guilty of terrorism charge
Source: The Star OTTAWA—Khurram Syed Sher smiled outside the courthouse Tuesday after being reminded he had been acquitted a few moments earlier on terrorism charges by a Superior Court Justice […]
Losing My Religion
Huff Post: by Karl Wilder — When I was a little boy, I was taught to love Jesus. Jesus would save me from sin and guarantee my place in heaven. Early on my mother’s husband “Bob” gave me a picture of Jesus with a wooden frame. At the time I […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community concludes its 66th USA Annual Convention
Source: examiner.com Amidst the continued unrest in the Middle East and many other parts of the world, a group of Muslims came together for a three-day convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to spread […]
Iraq crisis: Islamic State’s message to America – ‘We will drown you all in blood’
Islamic militants losing ground in Iraq under fire from US forces have threatened to launch terrorist attacks on American soil in revenge. A video posted online by the Islamic State (Isis) warned that Americans will be attacked “in any place” if air strikes continue to hit its fighters. READ MORE… […]
New Aga Khan Museum to Showcase Cultural Contributions of Muslim Civilizations
Source: Artlyst A new Museum to showcase the cultural and scientific contributions of Muslim civilizations is to open in Toronto Canada in September.The Aga Khan Museum will be dedicated to […]
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Audiobook – by Malcolm X
The Autobiography is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines Malcolm X’s philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. After the death of his subject, Haley authored the book’s epilogue, […]