Youtube: Published on Feb 20, 2013 Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at headquarters in Maple today to announce the creation of the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom and appoint its first ambassador, public servant Dr. Andrew Bennett. Paying tribute to his hosts, Mr. Harper said he is grateful for […]
By: Stephanie Pappas: Thinking about death makes Christians and Muslims, but not atheists, more likely to believe in God, new research finds, suggesting that the old saying about “no atheists in foxholes” doesn’t hold water. Agnostics, however, do become more willing to believe in God when reminded of death. The only […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: N.B.: The Washington Times title is “When burqas become accessories to crime: Criminals can hide behind Islamic garb” and it contains small differences from this version Philadelphia, the city where I live, has quietly and unassumedly become the capital of the Western world as regards female […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Obama administration’s assassination program is the fact that they simply refuse to address if they claim the authority to kill Americans on US soil without charge or trial. While they clearly claim the authority to kill Americans abroad without requiring […]
Businessinsider.com: Earlier today we posted how the Chinese military’s exploit of America’s grid software could conceivably provide them with a switch to turn out our lights, for months. The resulting catastrophe can be averted, however, by the implementation of technology that recently which uses single photons to secure networks and grids: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). The […]
Source: Rice, by Jeff Falk. A rare intrafaith dialogue on Islam had the Asia Society Texas Center’s Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater packed to the last seat Feb. 21. The event featured four imams representing the Ahmadiyya, African-American, Shia and Sunni traditions of Islam and was co-hosted by Rice University’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]