Mr. Baird has sought input from the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya community, the Aga Khan, a Holy See representative, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, and the US religious freedoms […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: The global Muslim community of 1.6 billion people agree on the core principles of their faith, but differ widely in religiosity and religious tolerance, according to a poll […]
Credit: Asia Times By Pepe Escobar I don’t want a holiday in the sun I wanna go to the new Belsen I wanna see some history Cause now I got a reasonable economy – The Sex Pistols, Holidays in the Sun Jihadis of the world, unite; you have nothing to […]
FALLUJAH, Iraq — In an Iraqi city where US military offensives levelled entire neighbourhoods in 2004, a hospital has turned to American doctors to treat children with heart problems that […]
By Zalmay Khalilzad, Wednesday, August 8, WASHINGTON POST Zalmay Khalilzad was the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2007 to 2009 during the George W. Bush administration. The United States has a window to facilitate an orderly transition in Syria without deploying military force. But the window is […]
All Praise is Due to Allah, the Lord of All the Worlds Courtesy: Global Post
Here is some insight into what people regret most right before they pass away. Bonnie Ware worked in palliative care for many years, tending to people during the last three […]
Credit / Source: Times of India WASHINGTON: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney mourned the Wisconsin gurdwara tragedy at a fundraiser in Iowa, but referred to a ‘sheik temple’ instead of […]
Credit: Asia Times The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to […]
August 08, 2012 12:59 AM By Altaf Husain The Daily Star Lebanon One trend to watch in the U.S. presidential election next November will be whether Muslim American civic engagement translates into votes. There has been a strong Muslim American voting contingent among African Americans. But unresolved grievances rooted in […]
Top executives at Standard Chartered said they were surprised when New York’s banking regulator accused them on Monday of scheming with the Iranian government to launder billions of dollars to potentially support terrorist activities. They were not the only ones caught off guard. The regulatory order also stunned other authorities […]
Recalling our debt to Islam BY VERN BARNET: Special to The Star: This may be a good time, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to ask why many of us, including […]
Hotly contested mosque to open Friday in Tennessee Erik Schelzig / AP file A worker walks out of the construction site of a mosque being built in Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 21, 2012. By NBC News staff and The Associated Press A new mosque outside of Nashville, Tenn. that […]
Our physics has to allow for free will and even though nineteenth century physics only suggested determinism, Quantum physics has provided, at least possible avenue, for both free will and Providence of God, at the same time.
MURFREESBORO — The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has been granted a temporary certificate of occupancy, valid for 30 days, by the state fire marshal’s office. County codes officials conducted a […]
Source: Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer Harris Zafar, national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, and “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer discuss the possibility that the gunman behind the mass shooting […]
(CNN) — Hundreds of white supremacist groups are active in the United States today and are experiencing a kind of resurgence, experts say. They are in the spotlight this week […]
Paul Brandeis RaushenbushSenior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post In the immediate aftermath of the horrific shooting at the Sikh Gurdwara (that’s the name of a Sikh House of Worship, not temple, not church), the media began to emphasize the difficulty many Americans have distinguishing between Sikhs and Muslims. As Jian […]
Reward offered after fire destroys mosque After learning about an early morning fire Monday that burned down the Islamic Center of Joplin, Mark Struckhoff immediately thought of a July arson attempt there. Struckhoff, executive director of the Council of Churches of the Ozarks, said although investigators are searching for a […]
By SOUAD MEKHENNET International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON — Muslims in Western countries say they have gotten used to the fact that as elections get closer, politicians pump up the volume of accusations against them, whether they are Sunni, Shiite or of another sect. In some European nations, it was the […]