Islam and Women's Rights
Review of Religions: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) The following is an address given by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to the female members (Lajna) of the worldwide […]
Islam and Women’s Rights
Review of Religions: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) The following is an address given by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to the female members (Lajna) of the worldwide […]
To Many Iraqis, U.S. Isn’t Really Seeking to Defeat Islamic State. American military response is criticized as too weak
ENLARGE U.S. army trainers instruct Iraqi army recruits at a military base in Taji, Iraq, in April. PHOTO: JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV Updated June 25, 2015 8:11 a.m. ET 113 COMMENTS BAGHDAD—In a tent city under a highway overpass in Baghdad, refugees from Iraq’s Sunni province of Anbar […]
The Jihadist Trap of Here and Now
Security Weekly STRATFIR JUNE 25, 2015 | By Scott Stewart In recent weeks, I have found myself spending a lot of time thinking about the jihadist strategy of al Qaeda and how it compares to that of the Islamic State. Earlier this month, I wrote about the possibility that […]
Consequences of underfunding the Syrian crisis
Jun 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Gustavo Gonsalez At the end of 2014, a wide range of national and international partners launched the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) to address the most challenging needs of refugees and host communities, as well as the longer-term socio-economic impact from the ongoing crisis […]
‘The game Israel is playing with Nusra’
Jun 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The attempts by Druze living in Israel and the occupied Golan to interdict en route to hospital ambulances carrying Syrians wounded across the ceasefire line in battles with Syrian government forces have put the Israeli army […]
A New Generation of CSR Reporting
Launched earlier this year, the Islamic Reporting Initiative (IRI) has rapidly gained momentum and support from organizations all over the world. “The IRI is aiming to create the first, mainstream […]
Robert Fisk: Could the European Union end up going the way of Arab unity? It is clear that many are tiring of the Greek crisis
Arab unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the […]
508. Commandment – Do not make distinction between Prophets
508. Commandment – Do not make distinction between Prophets [3:85] 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 Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and […]
Why an Orthodox Rabbi is fasting this Ramadan
By Cnaan Liphshiz July 10, 2014 A few hours into the 10th day of Ramadan, Rabbi Natan Levy was swapping fasting tips with a Muslim fellow passenger aboard the London Northern train line. Specifically, they were debating the merits of having a very large meal before sunrise — a technique […]
S. Arabia: Modern Tourist spot
House of Saud Turn Birthplace of Wahhabism Ideology Into Tourist Spot By Ben Hubbard, 31 May, 2015 “Scores of tombs have been destroyed; a house associated with Muhammad’s first wife, Khadija, was replaced with a bank of public toilets; and a home believed to have belonged to his companion […]
Syrian class divisions growing during civil war, helping Assad regime
MARK MACKINNON LONDON — The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 12:01AM EDT Syria is dissolving not only along sectarian lines, but also class lines, with a new report warning that the country’s economy has collapsed by more than 50 per cent through four years of bloody civil […]
State of fear: Survivors tell of life under Daesh rule
JORDAN TIMES ESKI MOSUL, Iraq — When Daesh burst into the Iraqi village of Eski Mosul, Sheikh Abdullah Ibrahim knew his wife was in trouble. Buthaina Ibrahim was an outspoken […]
Israeli Druze block ambulance with Syrian casualties
By Dan Williams5 hours ago . View photo Members of the Druze community walk next to the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan … By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Druze blocked an Israeli army ambulance they believed was transporting wounded Syrian rebels on Monday, local authorities said, […]
Syrian Kurds, on the offensive, push deeper into Islamic State territory
BEIRUT | BY TOM PERRY REUTERS.COM Fighters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) stand with children near a sign in Tel Abyad town, Raqqa governorate, June 16, 2015. REUTERS/RODI SAID Kurdish-led forces advanced on Monday deep into territory in Syria held by Islamic State, showing new momentum […]
No joy in Ramadan for Syrian refugees
A Syrian woman sits in front of her tent at an informal refugee camp in the Bekaa village of Jarahieh, Friday, June 19, 2015. (The Daily Star/Osama Kadiri) Ghinwa Obeid| The Daily Star BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: As she prepared stuffed vine leaves outside her refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley […]
506. Commandment – Do not oppose Allah and His Messenger
Commandment – Do not oppose Allah and His Messenger [58:21] Certainly those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the lowest. [59:5] That is because they opposed Allah and His Messenger; and whoso opposes Allah — then surely Allah is Severe in retribution. [58:6] Those who oppose Allah and His […]
505. Commandment – So leave them alone with that which they fabricate
505. Commandment – So leave them alone with that which they fabricate [6:113] And in like manner have We made for every Prophet an enemy, evil ones from among men and Jinn. They suggest one to another gilded speech in order to deceive — and if thy Lord had enforced […]
Ramadan fast seen as way to educate about Islam
Source: thespec.com To educate and dispel some of the myths about Islam, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community launched a Canada-wide campaign on Wednesday called Fast with a Muslim Friend. Participants register online […]
505. Commandment – So leave them alone with that which they fabricate
505. Commandment – So leave them alone with that which they fabricate [6:113] And in like manner have We made for every Prophet an enemy, evil ones from among men and Jinn. They suggest one to another gilded speech in order to deceive — and if thy Lord had enforced […]