Palestinian children continue to suffer high levels of violence and intimidation from Israeli forces. Brad Parker is a staff attorney and international advocacy officer with Defence for Children International Palestine, an independent child-rights organisation dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel […]
(CNN) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has made a renewed call for Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to cease violence towards the countries’ Muslim minorities, in an […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Source: NDTV The Supreme Court today ruled that Shariat courts have no legal sanction and no one is bound to accept a fatwa or diktat pronounced by them.The court decided […]
Almost all Deobandi religious leaders and all Barelvi ulema were on the payroll of the empire. This is how they sustained a living and ample proof can be found in their own books Canadian activist and polemicist Tarek Fatah, responding to my article ‘Shorish Kashmiri, Azad and partition’ last week […]
kashifmd.com: Ahmadiyya Islam: Status of non-Ahmadi Muslims? Can non-Ahmadi Muslims identify themselves as Muslims according to Ahmadiyya Islam? The simple and ONLY answer is: YES! Everyone has the right to self-identity. Do Ahmadi Muslims identify non-Ahmadi Muslims as Muslims? Another YES! Recently, I have come across some critics of Islam who […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 7 July 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the payment of SR1.39 billion in emergency assistance to poor families in the Kingdom. “Families subscribed to the social insurance scheme will benefit from the royal gesture,” said an official statement. […]
By Robert Fisk, in the Independent newspaper Dumping blame for the Holocaust on the wretched figure of the Grand Mufti is an insult to the six million victims of an evil regime A highly incriminating story, if true – but “possible” is hardly the stuff of history And so – […]
IPSnews: by Azza Suleiman — CAIRO, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Although indicators relating to women have improved over the years, they still remain large differences between men and women in literacy and schooling, the labor force and unemployment, and political participation. In Egypt, as in most other countries, there are […]
Occupied Jerusalem: Like many residents of the prosperous Occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Waleed Abu Khudair lives a life in two cultures: His neighbours are predominantly Palestinian, but his boss and customers at a popular West Jerusalem bakery are Jewish. It’s a dualism that has worked for years. But […]
By Shamim Masih We learnt the story from The Bible, when Abram heard that his brother (Lot) was taken captive, He brought back all the goods, and also brought again […]
Source: nation.com.pk Detainees are mostly Ahmadiyya but also include Christians and Shia Muslims. NEW YORK – Human Rights Watch (HRW), a prominent watchdog body, has urged Sri Lanka not to deport some 142 […]
Summary The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria has expelled more than 30,000 people from their homes in the eastern Syrian town of Shheil, a monitoring group said Sunday. Though both ISIS and Nusra share a jihadist ideology, the two groups have regularly clashed, with Nusra joining a coalition […]
The Daily Star BEIRUT: Maronite Bishop of Beirut Boulos Matar called Sunday for dialogue between different Muslim religious groups to end the “purposeless” struggle, stressing that Lebanon was the best example of religious coexistence. “[We] need an Islamic-Islamic dialogue to save the Eastern people from all the wars that threaten […]
| By MALCOLM RITTER Posted: 07/03/2014 9:25 am EDT NEW YORK (AP) — Tibetans living on the “roof of the world” can thank an extinct human relative for providing a gene […]
Source: The Star online BY NURBAITI HAMDAN SERI KEMBANGAN: Muslims must recognise the existence of people of other faiths in order to live in peace with one another, said Tun […]
A Blooming Flower in France, it only does so every 10 years: Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, “without form, misshapen” + phallos, “phallus“, and titan, “giant” ), known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with […]
The contest for Indonesia’s next President has hotted up. Disgraced former general Prabowo Subianto has closed the gap in the country’s two-horse race as the election looms on July 9. […]
The contest for Indonesia’s next President has hotted up. Disgraced former general Prabowo Subianto has closed the gap in the country’s two-horse race as the election looms on July 9. […]