Indonesia’s persecuted Ahmadis locked inside mosque
BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Thirty members of the persecuted minority Ahmadiyah Muslim sect have been inside a sealed mosque in West Java since Thursday, and police have been accused of harassing […]
Extremists replace the picture of the Dome of the Rock with Talmudic writings.
The Jewish Press: Jewish religious leaders do not stop targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, trying to harm it in many ways, with daily attacks on the mosque and with Talmudic rituals […]
Palestine: Simple suggestion put forward
April 08, 2013 | 22:32 JORDAN TIMES Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has a good suggestion to break the impasse in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, one that is simple and straightforward. He wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to draw a roadmap for the two-state solution that he has rhetorically accepted […]
Musharraf appears in court today over treason charges
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Tuesday 9 April 2013 Last Update 8 April 2013 11:02 pm ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court summoned former dictator Pervez Musharraf to appear today over allegations of high treason and barred him from leaving the country, dealing another blow to his homecoming. It is the first time the […]
Massive development of holy sites to ease Haj
HANOVER: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 9 April 2013 Studies are under way to set up 60,000 fireproof tents in Arafat at a cost of SR 2 billion, and expand Mina to house seven million pilgrims as part of government’s efforts to improve services to the guests of God. Interior Minister Prince […]
AQ Khan, father of the Islamic bomb, says North Korea is not ‘trigger happy’
The Pakistani metallurgist who passed nuclear technology to North Korea says Kim Jong-un’s regime is not “stupid” enough to use atomic weapons in its increasingly tense stand-off with the US. […]
Just one more religion?
Source: The Economist: WHAT is the tenth most widely followed religion in the world? According to http://www.adherents.com, a site which gathers data on faith from many sources, that honour goes to juche, the national ideology of North Korea, which is credited with 19m followers. As the site’s editors explain, “from a […]
PAKISTAN: The stupidity of the Ideology of Pakistan
Asian Human Rights Commission: April 8, 2013 Baseer Naveed The most popular slogan during the movement for the creation of Pakistan was, “Haath main lota munh main paan — laiker rahain gay Pakistan”, believe it that this was the ideology of Pakistan It was on March 25, 1969, when General […]
Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar
By Jason Szep (Reuters) – The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. “If you follow us, I’ll kill her,” the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city […]
Indonesian minorities protest religious intolerance
Source: Bangkok Post Around 200 Christian, Muslim Shiite and Ahmadiyah leaders protested in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday against growing religious intolerance in the Sunni Muslim-majority country. rally […]
Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – 3 Part BBC Documentary
Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and […]
Robert Fisk: Khalil Raad’s Palestinian pictures chart the history – and the tragedy
The Long View: This exhibition of the work of the first Palestinian photographer helps fulfil the Palestinian narrative, but it also shows a country that will never return. Jerusalem lies there in 1933, the slopes below al-Aqsa empty of roads, the view across the Mount of Olives containing scarcely four […]
Free Medical Camp for Hepatitis-B Check up By Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bhagalpur Zone, Bihar, India
Source: http://mkakhanpurmilki.blogspot.in/
Godhra mosque (Vadodara, India) Opens Doors To Hindus
Source: www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com VADODARA: The Muslim dominated area ofPolanBazar in Godhra is considered the ground zero of the 2002 riots. But on Sunday, a mosque here built a unique bridge across the communal divide by opening its […]
Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law
Source: Aljazeera Hundreds of thousands of people have held protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam. Protest organisers called Saturday’s rally the “long march”, with many travelling from remote villages to the capital, Dhaka’s […]
Hasina rejects blasphemy law
Source: The Daily Star Sheikh Hasina speaks to the BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan during an exclusive interview in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, has firmly rejected the demand for […]
Ahmadiyah Remain in Sealed Bekasi Mosque, Struggle With Police Harassment
The Jakarta Globe: Thirty members of Bekasi’s beleaguered Ahmadiyah Muslim sect have been locked inside the shuttered Al-Misbah mosque since Bekasi Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers sealed the building […]
“Yet, some groups among Ahmadis do take part and usually vote for mainstream parties,”
Source: ET However, separate voter lists are prepared for Ahmadis. “They are singled out on the basis of religion,” said Rizvi, adding that all other minorities, such as Hindus and Christians, are included in the general lists. The majority of Ahmadis have always boycotted elections. They refuse to be declared […]
Sorry, Rafia: but Mohammed Ali Jinnah was no Mandela.
Source: Te Daily Beast via Wasim Srroya Rafia Zakaria is one of Pakistan’s most readable columnists. She’s writing a book on Karachi, the port city to the south that, having once served as Pakistan’s first capital, is now paralysed by sectarian bloodletting. Anyone with an interest in Pakistan should read […]
The Unchanging Face of Pakistan – Forthcoming Elections
Amidst the already confounded social setup, the Election Stage is being zealously constructed; and the watch dogs (returning officers) appear to be well determined to deliver the Most Truthful (sadiq) and the Most Judicious Custodians (amin) as their “clean stamped” candidates to the voters. A spiteful circus – falling short […]