Ahmadiyah sect under siege in Indonesia
The Star: BEKASI, Indonesia: A group of minority Ahmadiyah Muslims have been holed up in an Indonesian mosque since authorities shuttered it earlier this month, in a stand-off that starkly […]
Military Take Over and 18th amendment in Pakistan!
Source: LUBP One of the funniest question asked on Facebook the other day, not by a common man living somewhere in remote village of Dera Ghazi Khan, but by a very informed blogger, social activist and highly educated person living in United states. is , “Does anyone know if Pakistani constitution […]
Sorry it’s fake
Source: CNN The discovery of an old tomb in China has repercussions beyond the history books and academic debates of scholars — it also means tourists to an existing tomb in the same area have been unintentionally duped. A tomb recently unearthed at a construction site in Yangzhou, China, is […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Thailand holds its 12th Annual Convention
Source: www.newswit.com General Press Releases Thursday April 18, 2013. Bangkok–18 Apr–The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Thailand The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Thailand held its 12th Annual Convention on 29-30 March […]
Musharraf shifted to police HQ
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: General (retd) Pervez Musharraf was shifted to the police headquarters in Islamabad from his farmhouse residence at Chak Shahzad on Friday, hours after […]
Islam and justice
Fiji Times online: Islam and justice Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Friday, April 19, 2013 Chief Justice Anthony Gates with Maulana Fazal Ullah Tariq (left) and Dr Brij Lal at the Fazl-e-Umar Mosque in Samabula. If many were to follow those facets of Holy Prophet’s life the misunderstandings and carelessness that breed dissent and distrust would not give […]
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Marching for a more tolerant Indonesia
Members of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation join the protest calling for the protection of religious freedom. Khabar South Asia: It is rare when leaders from numerous religious communities gather to […]
Musharraf hides at home after fleeing Islamabad high court
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: In a day of high drama, former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf fled from the Islamabad high court on Thursday after it had ordered his arrest in a 2007 case and remained closeted in his farmhouse with police blocking access to it. The Islamabad high court dismissed […]
Assad says fire of Syria could spread to Jordan
AFP | Apr 18, 2013 JORDAN TIMES DAMASCUS – President Bashar Assad on Wednesday threatened the crisis in Syria could spill over into Jordan, in an hour-long interview with official Al-Ikhbariya channel. “The fire will not stop at our borders; all the world knows Jordan is just as exposed (to […]
Pakistan’s Musharraf on the run after arrest order
ASIF SHAHZAD | AP ARABNEWS Thursday 18 April 2013 ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his security team pushed past policemen and sped away from a court in […]
Netanyahu: Israel reserves right to block arms to Syrian rebels
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has urged caution over international calls to arm Syrian rebels and reserved the right for the Jewish state to block the supply of weapons that could be turned against it. Speaking to the BBC, the Israeli prime minister said if advanced arms fell into the hands of […]
Aggressive discrimination-Minorites in Pakistan
Dawn.com: I. A. Rehman. For several months, the 20 or so Ahmadi families living in village Shamsabad, in Chunian tehsil of Kasur district, not far from the Punjab capital, have been subjected to harassment and violence by the majority community because of their belief. A public meeting organised by a […]
Saudi Arabia Reportedly Deports Men for Being ‘Too Handsome’: Will they accept Non Handsome Ahmadi Men? (photo added)
Time: It’s a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem for three men who have reportedly been deported from Saudi Arabia for being “too handsome.” The men were […]
The struggle of religious minorities in Indonesia
BBC: An ongoing conflict between the Ahmadiyah community and the local government has been drawing attention to what rights groups say is an increasing trend of intolerance in Indonesia. The […]
Bangladesh PM vows to maintain secularism
Source: Indian Express. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to maintain secularism as Bangladesh’s state policy, amid countrywide celebrations Sunday to mark the Bengali New Year, seen by right-wing Islamists as […]
China’s Catholic body vs the Vatican
Source: A Times: Most analysis went as follows. The pope is sovereign of the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world by population; the president of China heads the largest. Yet the size of the population over which the two nations hold sway is oddly similar. There are roughly […]
Letters to God
Source: ET BY: Humdah Tahir She took the letters and burned them one by one wishing she could set the memories that haunted her to fire too… The box was placed between old grimy paperbacks. It had been there for a long time. She could tell by the layers of […]
USA: 32 US lawmakers will not endorse Pakistan’s May elections without Ahmadis on joint electorate
The Ahmadiyya Times: The lawmakers impressed upon Secretary Kerry saying, “we cannot stand idly by and allow four million Ahamdis to remain disenfranchised and outside the electoral process.” By Imran Jattala | April 16, 2013 A joint letter signed by 32 members of U.S. Congress to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry […]
Jabhat al-Nusra Is Growing Menace To Mideast and Beyond
By: Bruce Riedel for Al-Monitor Posted on April 8. As the Syrian civil war gets ever more violent and destructive, there is a big beneficiary: al-Qaeda and its franchise in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra — which is now the fastest-growing al-Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from across the Islamic […]