Religion and US polls
Source: Dawn Author: Syed Amir THE separation of religion and state is grounded in the first amendment of the US constitution and has long been recognised as a guiding principle. Thomas […]
TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint in USA
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=politics/2012/01/23/bts-rand-paul-tsa-incident.cnn (CNN) — Authorities blocked U.S. Sen. Rand Paul at Nashville International Airport on Monday after the Kentucky Republican refused a pat-down at a security checkpoint, his spokeswoman said. Paul […]
Openhouse on Islam and women in Port Hope
Source: Northumberland Today – Promoting peace, condemning terrorism and dispelling myths about Islam have been the goals of the nation-wide campaign of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, an […]
Peaceful Exchange
Source: Chatham Daily News – Members of the youth wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada held an open house at the Chatham- Kent Public Library Saturday. Naseer Mirza, a businessman from Brampton, participated in the community- reach project “to give people some introduction of Islam.” Mirza emigrated to Canada about […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims
Relegion and Ethics: KIM LAWTON (Correspondent): In New York’s Times Square, it was an unexpected sight: Nestled amid ads for rum and hit TV shows, a sign proclaiming that Muslims […]
Yet Another Reminder That Democracy Is An Illusion
January 23, 2012 Santiago, Chile With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was. The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an FBI anti-piracy warning. Its founder, […]
These States Will Lose Billions If Their Illegal Immigrants Are Deported
Unauthorized immigrants made up 5.2% (about 8 million) of the U.S. workforce in 2010, according to a report from the American Immigration Council’s Strength In Diversity report. The same year, the American Immigration Council and American Progress estimated that deporting all unauthorized immigrants from the country and sealing the borders to future unauthorized immigration would “reduce […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims Interfaith Symposium in Houston
Houston, Saturday, January 21, 2012. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community held an interfaith symposium, as they do frequently and do a great job at it in selecting the right topics. The […]
Muslims Seek to Educate Lawmakers about Shariah
Oldest American-Muslim organization calls for end to fear mongering The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA calls for an end to the growing fear of Islamic Shariah in the United States. Shariah is not a threat to our nation. Instead, Shariah is a set of Islamic regulations and guidelines that govern the […]
Lechery, Immodesty and the Talmud
Courtesy NY Times: IS it possible for a religious demand for modesty to be about anything other than men controlling women’s bodies? From recent events in Israel, it would certainly […]
Muslim radical came from a family that promoted interfaith harmony
In a classic example of how people forget to do parenting of their own children and take up the task of parenting the whole world. Moeed Abdul Salam, a radical came from a Plano family that promoted interfaith harmony. He didn’t descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He […]
Ahmadiyya Youth, clearing up misconceptions about Islam
Source: Beacon Star – Ansar Raza and Harith Chaudhary put up banners on the Muslim faith and waited for people to come and ask questions Saturday. Raza, a religious minister with Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Chaudhary, local outreach co-ordinator with the organization’s youth wing, were in at the Parry Sound […]
PBS Documentary: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
http://www-tc.pbs.org/s3/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch Ahmadiyya Muslims on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Transcript of the documentary: KIM LAWTON (Correspondent): In New York’s Times Square, it was an unexpected sight: […]
Respecting Islam, showing face
Source: Emc – More than a decade after 9/11, there is still much we do not know about our Muslim brothers and sisters. Rather than using the tragedy of that […]
Ahmadiyya Youth lifts veil off Muslim myths
Source: Emc Perth – Jesus Christ is mentioned more times by name in the Holy Quran than is the name of the Prophet Mohammad. While it isn’t a numbers’ game – though Jesus is mentioned by name 20 times to Mohammad’s four – it is an example of just how […]
Muslim visitors hope to end cultural misconceptions
Source: The Record – Fort Saskatchewan recently played host to a Muslim group looking to dispel misconceptions about the Islamic religion. Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) sent a group of 15 youth volunteers out to the Fort on Saturday in an effort to counter terrorism and to educate […]
Islamic youth visits Weyburn.
Source: Weyburn Review – A group of young Muslims from Saskatoon gather on Weyburn’s boardwalk before setting off to some of Weyburn’s residential neighbourhoods on Saturday, where they went door-to-door in frigid temperature of -25C to talk about their religion. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, Saskatoon […]
Muslim Group Presents Tribute to Mother Mary
Source: The Recorder & Times – Muslim youth group that promotes peace and condemns terrorism will stop in Brockville on Saturday to present a tribute to Mother Mary for an […]
WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?
Extreme modesty, or freedom gone wild? Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think. Anne Kingston No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, […]
As U.S.-Pakistani relations sink, nations try to figure out ‘a new normal’
Courtesy Washington Post: In a call to her Pakistani counterpart this month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s counterterrorism “red line”: The United States reserved the right […]