US Supreme Court recognized four Prophets as Great Law-Givers, in 1932
Epigraph: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and in that which has been revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the […]
UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president. – World body invokes legal immunity to rebuff claims despite studies identifying UN peacekeepers as source of the outbreak
Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince and Ed Pilkington in New York THE GUARDIAN The UN has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from 5,000 victims of the Haiti cholera epidemic, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times and widely believed […]
Palestinian Oscar nominee laments US airport snub
Friday 22 February 2013 ARABNEWS LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat lamented that US border guards detained him and his family at the Los Angeles airport as they arrived […]
Bangladesh Student Association works to preserve mother language
Source: The Diamondback ( University of Maryland Student Newspaper) By Fatimah Waseem/The Diamondback When senior bioengineering major Nahid Sultana came from Bangladesh to the United States, she was a 1-month-old baby. For her parents, the journey meant a better education. But for Sultana, the journey meant leaving behind not only […]
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
NY times: On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, […]
A religious Canada Strong and free
Source: National Post This week, in the aptly named Maple, part of the sprawling suburbs in the northern Greater Toronto Area, the prime minister came to announce the establishment of […]
Pakistan ambassador to US Sherry Rehman faces blasphemy probe
Source: TOI In late 2010 Sherry Rehman sparked fury among religious groups as a lawmaker by lodging a private member’s bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy after a Christian mother of five was sentenced to death. (TOI photo by Nilesh Wairkar) MULTAN: Pakistan police are investigating the […]
Ahmadiyya community meets US lawmakers on persecution in Pakistan
Zeenewsindia: Washington: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community during their ‘Day on the Hill’ on last Friday briefed US lawmakers on their alleged persecution in Pakistan, official sources have said. Community leaders from 30 States visited nearly 400 Congressional offices on the Hill and met lawmakers and their staff on […]
Designer’s scarves empower Muslim women
By Megan Devlin — Staff Writer THE ITHACAN Ithaca College will host Nancy Hoque, designer and founder of sixteenR.com, an online store that sells scarves for Muslim women. Hoque will […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims plan Vestal, NY community center
Source: Press and Sun VESTAL — When Afzal Rehman arrived here more than 20 years ago for a medical residency, he didn’t know of any others locally who shared his religious faith. Rehman, an Ahmadiyya Muslim, soon left Johnson City to continue his medical training, spending time in Georgia and […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims plan Vestal community center (USA)
VESTAL — When Afzal Rehman arrived here more than 20 years ago for a medical residency, he didn’t know of any others locally who shared his religious faith. Rehman, an […]
Barclays Center Offers Separate Men’s And Women’s Seating
Source: Huff Post, by Ron Dicker. Several hundred seats are being set aside so that Jewish men and women can sit in separate areas — as is custom — at a Feb. 28 concert by violinist Itzhak Perlman. The night features Jewish music and cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. The tickets […]
Ahmadi Muslim Delegates Visit Nearly 400 U.S. Congressional Offices
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA. “As one of America’s oldest Muslim organizations, our Community firmly believes in the value of the democratic process,” said Amjad Mahmood Khan, National Director of Public Affairs for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and event organizer. “Our annual ‘Day on the Hill’ event reflects our […]
China Says Army Is Not Behind Attacks in Report
SHANGHAI — A day after a United States security company accused a People’s Liberation Army unit in Shanghai of engaging in cyberwarfare against American corporations, organizations and government agencies, China’s defense ministry issued a strong denial and insisted that the report was flawed. At a news conference in Beijing Wednesday, […]
4 questions about Canada’s new Office of Religious Freedom
CBS News: What will the Office of Religious Freedom do? Its mandate is to promote freedom of religion or belief. The government says this promotion will be a Canadian “foreign […]
Prime Minister Harper’s tribute to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Prime Minster Stephen Harper speaks at the unveiling ceremony of the Office of Religious Freedom at the Aiwan e Tahir Hall of the Ahmadiyya Bait ul Islam Mosque, Maple, Ontario, […]
A ‘must-watch’ youtube movie on the 9/11 investigation.
“Mohammad Atta and the Venice Flying Circus” documentary Please click on here: Three of the four terrorist pilots connected with the 9/11 tragedy learned to fly airplanes in the tiny […]
A Website dedicated to Remove Misunderstandings about Holy Prophet of Islam
Twitter: SabahatMS: The Ahmadiyya Community in USA has launched a dedicated website to remove misunderstandings against the Holy Prophet of Islam (Muhammadfactcheck.org). Please visit the website below: Click here:
Is world witnessing decline of the West?
Gwynne Dyer ARABNEWS Wednesday 20 February 2013 You know the storyline by now. There are one million US-dollar millionaires in China. (“To get rich is glorious,” said former leader Deng Xiao-ping.) Seventy percent of the homes in China are bought for cash. China’s total trade — the sum of imports […]
Muslim women at UTSA explain Islamic dress
Source: The Paisano, by Marcia Perales. Many westerners don’t fully understand that a half or full-face covering is not required for Muslim women. The Quran requires women to cover everything except their face, hands and feet; therefore, when a Muslim woman covers more than what is required, it is typically […]