Source: ET KARACHI: In Pakistan, political parties use big public rallies to show their strength, especially in the run-up to elections. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and other parties are doing just that. However, moderate political parties haven’t been able to canvass for votes in the same way because […]
Source> Wasim Sr Tahir ul Qadri’s followers prostrating before him: Click HERE to see video in Youtube. Now watch Tahir ul Qadri’s condemnation of prostration to any human: Click HERE to watch the clip in Youtube.
Lights in the sky over Damascus. Another Israeli raid – “daring” of course, in the words of Israel’s supporters, and the second in two days – on Bashar al-Assad’s weaponry and military facilities and weapons stores. The story is already familiar: the Israelis wanted to prevent a shipment of Iranian-made […]
STORY SUMMARY There is good news and bad news on the Arab-Israeli peacemaking front this week. The good news is that the United States and the Arab League’s ministerial committee seem energized to restart Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. This culminated a few days ago in the Arab clarification that the 2002 Arab […]
STORY SUMMARY Israel sought to reassure the Syrian regime Monday that its weekend airstrikes against military sites near Damascus were not aimed at boosting the rebels, as activists claimed at least 42 army soldiers were killed in the attacks. Early morning airstrikes against what Syrian state media reported were scientific […]
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 07 May 2013: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will boycott of Pakistan 2013 Elections. We look at the implications and impact of this on […]
By Jakarta Globe on 12:26 am May 7, 2013. An Indonesian human rights organization has blasted a US-based interfaith group’s decision to recognize President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for championing religious […]
IPSnewsnet: Zofeen Ibrahim: KARACHI , May 6 2013 (IPS) – Twenty-five-year-old Syed Hasan, a doctor practicing in a private hospital in Lahore, plans to spend most of May 11, Pakistan’s long-awaited Election Day, in bed. Members of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan say they have been disenfranchised by the country’s […]
BBC: ہ تشدد کے حوالے سے حساس شہر ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان میں مذہبی رواداری کا ایک ایسا واقعہ پیش آیا ہے جس میں ہندو جوان کو بچاتے ہوئے دو مسلمان بھی ہلاک ہو گئے۔ دونوں افراد میں سے ایک حافظ قران تھے اور دوسرے ڈیڑھ سال پہلے عیسایت کا مذہب […]
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 […]