Americas

Nation of Immigrants

Source: NY Times. In 1908, when a play called “The Melting Pot” was first staged in New York City, helping to popularize the term, New York had a foreign-born population of over 40 percent, but the city was 98 percent white (which could include people of Hispanic origins). The foreign-born […]

‘Over My Dead Body

Source: The Daily Best: In 2012, the Obama administration reached a secret, surprising conclusion: Al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That assessment was in keeping with the message coming from the White House as President Obama rode to reelection in 2012. However, reports Eli Lake, the […]

Debunking the Extremist Myth That Islam is Anti-Jewish

New bus ads in DC say the Qu’ran promotes Jew-hatred. It’s a meritless, dangerous accusation.  Now, certainly some Muslims are anti-Jewish, as are some Christians, agnostics, atheists—you get the idea. However, nothing in the Qur’an or in Prophet Muhammad’s example supports the myth of “Islamic Jew hatred.” As I detail in my […]

Letter of the Day

Dear Editor, Ever since the May 2010 attacks on two Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Lahore, death without dignity has become a bitter reality for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan. Along with […]

FGM: Not in Religion’s Name!

Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk Farooq Aftab: Spokesperson Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Worldwide & AMYA UK, Lawyer, Human Rights Advocate, News Commentator, Writer & Public Speaker/Trainer on Islam Recently, thousands of British Muslim men who make […]