Source: TOI AIZAWL: As India holds the latest round of its mammoth elections Friday, one man — a polygamist and sect leader Zionnghaka Chana — has become the voter every local politician wants to know. With 39 wives and 127 children and grandchildren, Chana is a voter like no other […]
92. So leave them (non-believers) until they meet that day of theirs [52:46] So leave them until they meet that day of theirs, on which they will be overtaken by a thunderbolt, [19:85] So be not thou in haste with regard to them; We are keeping full account of their doings. […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be one of Barack Obama’s cuddliest allies. Religious but secular, powerful but democratic, independent but a reliable Nato chum, he was the kind of guy the White House and the Pentagon could rely on to provide a guiding hand in […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be one of Barack Obama’s cuddliest allies. Religious but secular, powerful but democratic, independent but a reliable Nato chum, he was the kind of guy the White House and the Pentagon could rely on to provide a guiding hand in […]
DUBAI: K.T. Abdurabbi ARABNEWS.COM Dubai International Peace Convention is a perfect opportunity to illustrate Islam’s teachings of peace, said Hamad bin Al Sheikh Ahmed Al Shaibani, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for World Peace and chairman of the Dubai […]
Sheikh Ubayd Al-Jabiri Published — Friday 11 April 2014 As the Qur’an is revelation of Allah to Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Sunnah likewise — not a third of it; not half of it; not two-thirds of it; not three-fourths of it; and not nine-tenths of it — all […]
Published on Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:31 EZIES ELIAS SHEHADEH PNN She stood in the middle of Eilat Airport’s small departures hall, and her eyes said it all. An impressive, well-dressed woman with an assertive face, only her burning eyes betrayed the insult she felt. “I’m so ashamed,” she […]
Published on Wednesday, 09 April 2014 13:10 Jerusalem/PNN Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem expressed concerns over Israeli Police measurements and security restrictions in the city during the Easter celebrations, which prevent the Christian worshipers from accessing holy sites in East Jerusalem, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. The auxiliary bishop of the Latin […]
Source: ET The latest talk on the media is that former DG ISI General Pasha apologised to former president Zardari on Memogate and took the defence plea that he did it on the orders of General Kayani. (Sohail Warraich, in his television show, recently claimed former president Zardari had told […]
Source: CNN It is a descent into barbarism. This month’s plan by Iraqi parliamentarians to legalize girl marriage at nine follows the Pakistan Islamic Council’s demand last month that Pakistan abolish all legal restrictions on child marriage, the revelation that Syrian refugee girls are being sold into marriage against their […]
(CNN) — Investigators got new information that may help them narrow the possible whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 as details emerged Thursday that shed light on the doomed flight’s […]
His Majesty King Abdullah is received by Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of their talks in Moscow on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that focused on bilateral ties and means to develop them at […]
Source: thejakartapost.com In Sidoarjo, East Java, the Sampang Shiites also cast their votes near their displacement camp. A number of police and military personnel were deployed to the location for security reasons. “Eveything is good. There’s no problem,” Sidoarjo Police chief Adj. Comr. Marjuki said as quoted by tempo.co. Sixty-seven Shia […]
Source: thejakartapost.com We hope the elected people’s representatives will embrace all people without differentiating them based on ethnic, religious or racial background. Seventy-one displaced Ahmadiyah at Wisma Transito in Mataram, West […]
Source: clrforum.org Next month, Anthem Press will publish The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences). The publisher’s description follows. ‘The Ahmadis […]
Nick Ames , April 9th, 2014 Development in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, is coming at the cost of the loss of some of the most important sites of […]
Nick Ames , April 9th, 2014 Development in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, is coming at the cost of the loss of some of the most important sites of […]
by kanupriya kapoor AND randy fabi Indonesia’s Islamic parties surprise with strong showing in election il JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Islamic political parties are poised to grab a larger-than-expected share of the vote in Wednesday’s general election, indicating a loyal following in the world’s most populous Muslim nation despite a […]
Source: BBC Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have reacquired signals that could be consistent with “black box” flight recorders. An Australian vessel heard the signals again on […]
Source: The Daily Times In Social Studies textbooks it is mentioned that Hindus are extremists and eternal enemies of Islam, whose culture and society is based on injustice and cruelty, while Islam delivers a message of peace and brotherhood, concepts portrayed as alien to the Hindus. Pakistan was created in […]