Source: tribune.com.pk City police told Ahmadis they could not perform the ritual sacrifice since they were not Muslims. LAHORE: Lahore police stopped various members of the Ahmadi community in Lahore from […]
Source: Ch.Maqbool Ahmad, Journalist, Qadian. Eid-Ul-Adha celebrated in Qadian: Thousands of Muslim men, women and children offered the Eid prayer in Masjid Aqsa. Qadian 16th October (Ch.Maqbool Ahmad): Eid-Ul-Adha was celebrated here […]
Haaretz: Shaul Tchernichovsky‘s vision poem has been suggested as a substitute or alternative for Israel’s national anthem. Poem of the Week / This is the poem that could replace ‘Hatikvah’ […]
Haaretz: Shaul Tchernichovsky‘s vision poem has been suggested as a substitute or alternative for Israel’s national anthem. Poem of the Week / This is the poem that could replace ‘Hatikvah’ […]
May I be a sacrifice to your street, oh fatherland, where It has become custom that no-one shall go with head held high And that any lover who comes out on pilgrimage Must go with furtive looks, go in fear of body and life; Applied to the people of heart […]
Idul Adha, a legacy of a man, three wives and many religions The Jakarta Post: Myth and custom compels us to simplify Idul Adha as an Islamic holiday. Even The […]
Source: Spiegel: SPIEGEL: Mr. President, do you love your country? Assad: That is a simple, evident question. Of course. It’s human to love where you come from. But it is not just a question of the emotional relationship. It is also about what you, as a person, can do for your […]
Source: Spiegel: SPIEGEL: Mr. President, do you love your country? Assad: That is a simple, evident question. Of course. It’s human to love where you come from. But it is not just a question of the emotional relationship. It is also about what you, as a person, can do for your […]
Source: IRIN via Wasim Sr: The Ahmadi community Members of the minority Ahmadi community, which faced the worst attack in its history in 2010 in Lahore when around a 100 were killed, say they live in constant fear. The group considers itself Muslim, but was in 1974 declared non-Muslim under Pakistani law, […]
Huff Post: by Erik De Castro – LOON, Philippines, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital. Nearly 3 million people were affected by […]
The Times of Israel: by Haviv Rettig Gur – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a thinly veiled defense of a possible Israeli preemptive strike on Iran during a Knesset commemoration Tuesday of the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. In a speech to MKs about the war, in which Israel […]
Source: Dawn.COM. Over 16 million or half the world’s population of modern day slaves live in India and Pakistan, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Indexpublished Thursday. An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, of which 2.1 million are in Pakistan and a staggering 14 million are […]
Damage caused to Israel described as ‘significant’ and move said to be ‘an effort to slap the Israelis,’ Washington Post reports. By Barak Ravid The Turkish government of Prime Minister […]
Source: Asia Times: Pakistan’s impoverished and peaceful Christian community has endured mob rampages, blasphemy charges, and was largely spared the ravages of suicide bombings, till last month. Suicide bombings on September 22 at Peshawar’s All-Saints Church, which is designed like a mosque to reflect inter-faith harmony, killed 83 worshippers and […]
Source: Dawn.Com: It was, perhaps, inevitable given the work ethic that prevails in Pakistan. After initially declaring a three-day holiday period for Eidul Azha, the federal government followed Sindh’s lead and, on Monday, announced that on Friday, too, the country would be taking time out from business as usual, thus […]
Source: ET A suicide bomb targeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Law and Parliamentary Affairs MinisterIsrarullah Gandapur, who was killed along with nine other people while 30 others were injured, Express News reported. The attack reportedly took place when the minister was meeting visitors at his traditional village in Kulachi, which is located 45 kilometers from […]
Source: The Economist: THIS week Muslims from all over the world are in Saudi Arabia for the haj. The Koran says that all Islam’s followers who are physically and financially able should make the annual pilgrimage—one of five pillars of Islam—once in their lifetime. Pilgrims travel to Mecca to carry out […]
Source: hurriyetdailynews.com Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed that he is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, speaking during an interview with daily Hürriyet. “It is true, the family that I belong […]
Palestinian Muslim pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city on Eid al-Adha or “The Feast of Sacrifice” on October 15, 2013.
Dylan Collins and Patrick O. Strickland The Electronic Intifada Burqa 14 October 2013 Israeli settlers raided Burqa, a village near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on 10 October. […]