Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: A number of copies of the holy Quran were burnt when the stalls and pushcarts of hawkers were set ablaze during the violence at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of people gathered near the south gate of Baitul Mukarram […]
Source: Guardian via Wasim Sr. As Pakistan’s election campaign enters its dying days, no town has escaped the attention of the country’s politicians as they crisscross the country, plastering every spare billboard, lamp-post and shop-front with posters bearing their heavily airbrushed faces. Except Rabwah, a sleepy riverside settlement in the […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community An interactive talk show discussing and answering questions in relation to the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, thus rectifying misconceptions. For more information please visit alislam.org […]
Source: Daily Telegraph via Wasim Sr The politician most likely to be Pakistan’s next prime minister is a wiser man and a more mature leader than the one who governed twice in the 1990s before being overthrown in a military coup, according to one of the women who knows him […]
Source. Wasim Sr Click HERE to see video in Youtube. Now watch Tahir ul Qadri’s condemnation of prostration to any human:
Source: Huffington Post /AP By FARID HOSSAIN DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police banned all rallies in Bangladesh’s capital for the rest of the day Monday after at least 20 people died in clashes between police and large numbers of Islamic hardliners demanding that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law, officials said. […]
The Jakarta Globe: The National Police have set up a special team to investigate Sunday’s attack on the Ahmadiyah community in Tasikmalaya, West Java, by Islamic hard-liners. A mob of […]
Source: BD News 24. By Moinul Hoque Chowdhury Hifazat-e Islam’s Dhaka blockade is a demonstration of the muscle power of religion-driven politics, but under a non-political banner in a year when parliament elections are due, political analysts say. The radical Islamist organisation enforced the Dhaka blockade within a month of its […]
India Today: By Pervez Hoodbhoy Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th century philosopher and mathematician, observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”. His words could apply to Gujarat 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation-whether by birth or […]
Huff Post: Deepak Sarma. Another good question to ask concerns the propriety of appropriating or merely utilizing purportedly proprietary Hindu symbols, practices, clothing, images and so on. The question — basically, “Who owns Hinduism?” — revolves around a number of separate, but related questions: First, who speaks on behalf of, […]
by Burhan Aldroubi Source: The Williams Record Western imperialism, a modern segment of historic imperialism, continuously inspires discussion in our classrooms. Realist and morally deterministic arguments go head to head, with both regrets and admissions realized as afterthoughts. Formal discussions about Latin America or the Levant can perhaps be viewed […]
With all due credits to Saatchi & Saatchi – recreated from their original video to fit a shorter time frame. The true colors of Pakistan. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150963027400388&set=vb.512920387&type=2&theater
According to the spokesman, 29 buildings were damaged in the attack, including a mosque, a mushola (small mosque) and an elementary school. The Jakarta Post: ….. Unknown assailants attacked an […]
Source> BBC.Com. Arn Chorn-Pond was a child in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. Born into a family of artists and musicians, he was sent to a children’s labour camp where he escaped death by playing his flute for the camp guards. His brother and sister […]
EILEEN NG | AP ARABNEWS Monday 6 May 2013 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s long-governing coalition won national elections Sunday to extend its 56 years of unbroken rule, fending off the […]
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Monday 6 May 2013 Saudi Arabia released yesterday 166 former Al-Qaeda members and repentant militants after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior. The rehabilitation program and release […]
ET: DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline protesters in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday. Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said police used sound grenades, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at […]
May 3, 2013 – 13:10 There is a ‘window of opportunity’ for Israel and the Palestinians to get back to the negotiating table, said Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter after […]
May 6, 2013 – swissinfo.ch The United Nations has gathered testimony that suggests that rebels have used the nerve gas sarin in the Syrian conflict, Swiss prosecutor Carla Del Ponte […]
NITICentral: Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community on Sunday announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on May 11 to register his or her protest on the discrimination against Ahmadis,” said Saleemuddin, the spokesman for the Jamaat Ahmadiya […]