Don't Throw Acid on Islam's Face
Huff Post: A 49-year old female in New York suffered burns on more than 50 percent of her body because her father poured acid on her face and body. A 29-year-old female in […]
Undoing religious intolerance – undoing the second amendment
Tribune.pk: Religious clerics in Pakistan celebrate September 7th as a day of victory for Islam and Pakistan. Officially dubbed the “Khatme Nubuwwat Day” or “Finality of Prophethood Day,” many mosques come […]
“There is no scope for a counter response from Ahmadis”
The News on Sunday: On September 7, 1974, exactly 40 years ago, the Second Amendment to the Constitution that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims was passed. It was a kind of culmination of their social ostracisation that began after the intense and violent anti-Ahmadiyya movement of the early 1950s. Thereafter, they […]
ISIS IS NOT ONLY UN-ISLAMIC, IT IS ANTI-ISLAMIC NIHAD AWAD (CAIR): TIME
OPINION FOREIGN AFFAIRS ISIS Is Not Just Un-Islamic, It Is Anti-Islamic Nihad Awad @NihadAwad Sept. 5, 2014 ISIS Militants Raqqa Syria Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of the northern Raqqa province in Syria, June 30, 2014. Reuters If we want to stop ISIS, […]
U.S. Muslims Appeal To John Kerry For Protection On Mecca Pilgrimage
Huff Post: (RNS) Concerned for the safety of U.S. citizens soon headed to Mecca, 27 Muslim-American groups are asking the State Department to better protect them from violence that has plagued those who have made the pilgrimage in the past. A letter from the group sent Tuesday (Aug. 26) to […]
Second Amendment, Ahmadis and Democracy in Pakistan
Source: Pak Tea House By Raza Habib Raja: The author is a PhD student at Maxwell School, Syracuse University and can be contacted at rhr53@cornell.edu Frankly I would like to say at […]
They Ride Bikes to Spread Peace: An Innovative Idea by Ahmadiyya Muslim Germany
By Zubair Khan During the current year,utilising the name of Islam, so called ISIS and BO KO Ha ram, hoisting the flags with writing, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad (saw) is His Messenger, committed extremely brutal atrocities against humanity and crossed all the limits recorded in recent […]
Saudi Arabia declares atheists terrorists under new laws targeting citizens who ‘call for secular thought in any form’
Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists in sweeping new laws that threaten up to 20 years in prison for almost any criticism of the government or Islam. The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups such as […]
The Islamic State — implications for Pakistan
ET: The Iranians, as much as the Americans, have, alongside the Iraqis, breathed a sigh of relief, as rendered bereft of international and regional allies and perhaps, most importantly under pressure from Ayatollah Uzma Sistani, Prime Minister Maliki has agreed to step down and has endorsed the nomination of Haider […]
Enough lies, the Arab body politic created the ISIS cancer
Alarabiya: by Hisham Melham — Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance […]
Britain has ‘moral duty to arm Kurds against Islamic State’
Guardian: Britain has a moral and historical obligation to arm the Kurds against the Islamic State jihadists now menacing Irbil, and failure to so would be certain to amplify the terror threat […]
How Pakistan Drifted Away from Itself
Huff Post: With the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Dominion of Pakistan came into existence on Aug. 14, 1947. The valiant and astute Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the minority Muslim community of United India to the fulfillment of its dream for a separate homeland. The basis for the very […]
Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to denouce IS brutality
ET: VATICAN CITY / BAGHDAD: The Vatican on Tuesday called for Muslim leaders to denounce the brutality of Islamic State (IS) militants who have swept across Iraq, saying there was no […]
U.S. Actions in Iraq Fueled Rise of a Rebel
NY Times: BAGHDAD — When American forces raided a home near Falluja during the turbulent 2004 offensive against the Iraqi Sunni insurgency, they got the hard-core militants they had been looking for. They also picked up an apparent hanger-on, an Iraqi man in his early 30s whom they knew nothing […]
Special Report: Seven Stories on Ahmadiyya In Pakistan
The News: Special Report Being Ahmadi I.A. Rehman August 10, 2014 Leave a comment The sufferings of the Ahmadis are not confined to killings and destruction of their property. Their whole generations have been forced to stay imprisoned within their mental recesses Read More » “What needs to be curtailed […]
From Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the Arab World Has Abandoned the Palestinians
Huff Post: Forget for one moment the timid pronouncements of Barack Obama and David Cameron. When will Arab rulers dare raise their voice against Israel’s pounding of Gaza? “I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya: An ‘absence of justice’
Aljazeera: Rabwah, Pakistan – Seeing her lying in her hospital bed, it’s difficult to tell what Mubashara Jarra has been through. Outwardly, she appears fine. No intravenous tubes snaking into her body, and no bandages covering up her wounds. “I’m feeling much better,” she says, in a low voice. It is, […]
British imam: Quran does not rule on segregation
A leading British Sunni imam has said that gender segregation has no basis in the Quran, UK newspaper The Times reported Saturday. READ MORE…
White flags for them, green for us
ET: Even after deliberating for 60 years, the jury’s still out on Muhammad Munir. Pakistan’s second chief justice was a symptom of the times he lived in: brilliant but tragic, visionary but weak. He cared nothing for the rule of law; he cared for nothing but the rule of law. […]
Local MP Calls for Protection of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
seemamalhotra.com: Seema Malhotra has called on the British Government to do more to protect the Admadi community in Pakistan. Ms Malhotra’s call comes in light of the latest harrowing attack […]