Youtube: This testimony is from 2012: Published on Jan 10, 2013 Amjad Mahmood Khan testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives (Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission) about persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in South Asia as part of special hearing on “Challenges Facing Religious Minorities in South Asia”. Proceedings held on […]
Source: daltondailycitizen.com By Najia Humayun: Daily Citizen intern Upon rising before the break of dawn, various thoughts occupy the minds of Muslims whilst preparing to pray. “This is an opportunity to pay […]
Using religion to spread hate To hear a Christian invoke the Qur’an to justify Islamic war against non-Muslims is truly bizarre Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun, http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/06/using-religion-to-spread-hate A Christian Palestinian urged Muslim Canadians to wage war on the Jewish State of Israel. And he did this by invoking a verse […]
Source: TOI LOS ANGELES: President Barack Obama is cancelling plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month — a rare diplomatic snub. The move is retribution for Russia’s decision to grant temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. It also reflects growing US frustration with […]
Is Your Favorite Charity on This List? To identify America’s 50 worst charities, the Times and CIR examined tens of thousands of pages of public government records from 36 states. […]
August 07, 2013 12:20 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Story Summary I would love to know who is the jerk who wrote the White House’s press statement on the occasion of the inauguration last week of the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. The two most important conflicts […]
Editors note: I have addded to the heading to make the content clear. Global Post: According to the nation’s lawmakers, the United States is now facing the greatest peril since the 9/11 attacks, prompting weeklong closures of 19 diplomatic facilities in the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, evacuations in Yemen, and a […]
Huff Post: by Khurram Dara. “When people ask, I explain that fasting is meant to teach us patience, sacrifice and humility… the discussion usually branches out into other segments of Islam,” says Omar Farooqui, a 26-year-old equities analyst in Buffalo, NY. Not only were his coworkers interested in learning more, […]
Source: kokomoperspective.com “Ramadan is a time of peace, reflection, charity, and unity” said Wasim Malik, national vice president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. Last week, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community gathered in […]
ET by Faheem Younas: I was putting my shoes on, leaving for my evening prayers, when my phone buzzed with a text: “Saw a CNN byline linking ‘Night of Power’ to the recent terror alert. Talk of sensationalism.” You know how it goes. The story was largely accurate – prompted by fears […]
By HABIB ZAHORI THE NEW YORK TIMES Afghanistan is a country built on legends – we trade on the tales we’ve told and retold each other over many generations. There’s a favorite subgenre of stories here, about foreigners going local, that particularly seem to linger in memory. Accounts of Soviet […]
Source: jconline.com The Islamic Society of Greater Lafayette will host an Eid al-Fitr morning prayer and breakfast to mark the end of Ramadan. The celebration will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday or Friday at Burtsfield Gym, 1838 N. Salisbury St. in West Lafayette. Members of the community are asked to bring […]
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Business Insider: by Meredith Lepore. Can men and women really just be friends? Let’s discuss. In the new film Drinking Buddies, Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson play best friends who work at a Chicago brewery together. They are extremely close, despite both having significant others, and both being extremely attractive. However, […]
Washington Post: OAK CREEK, Wis. — Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka’s father and five others at a Sikh temple last year, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead reached out and invited him to dinner. But Kaleka accepted, and he’s grateful he did. Since then, […]
Source: Asia Times: The end of Ramadan was imminent. The jihadi chattering classes of that fuzzy entity, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), went on overdrive. It was jailbreak galore from Libya to Pakistan via Iraq. And all this in perfect synch with two successive fatwas issued by that perennial […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Egyptian army chief in interview says Defense Secretary Hagel calls him almost every day, but Obama has not called. US President Barack Obama appears to have angered supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, as well as supporters of the army coup that toppled him on […]
Epigraph And for the moon We have appointed stages, till it becomes again like an old dry branch of a palm-tree. It is not for the sun to overtake the […]