Odd News: Missing (Soviet) war veteran lives as healer in Afghanistan
Reuters | Mar 07, 2013 | 22:32 JORDAN TIMES MOSCOW — A Soviet war veteran reported missing in action during fighting in Afghanistan 33 years ago has been found living […]
HUMAN RIGHTS : Women “carry all” of Palestine’s sufferin
GAZA CITY (IPS) – “In Gaza we don’t lead normal lives, we just cope, and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation,” said Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time women’s rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women’s Day, when many of the world’s women […]
Muslim students at Gujarat University fetch highest number of gold medals so far
Source: Times of India AHMEDABAD: Minority march in higher education is getting stronger in the state. The 61st convocation of the Gujarat University in fact saw maximum number so far of Muslim students excelling in their streams and winning gold medals. This year 211 medals were given to 118 students […]
Did JI convert Pakistan into What Maudoodi Thought of It?: A Grim Reminder
Twitter: from Qasim Rashid
Khatam-e-Nabuwwat Desperate Tactics and Ahmadiyya Muslim Answer: The Curious Case of a Nephew
Youtube/mat.tv: Recently a youtube video was circulated on the internet. This was made apparently at a recent conference called “Fath-e-Mubahala” conference in Pakistan. In this video, Mullahs, presented someone called Shamsuddin as a newphew of present Khalifa of Islam who makes a statement that he has accepted Islam. See here […]
Blood Donation Camp Organized by Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, Kolkata (India) on completing 75 years
By Waqar Zafar, Qaid Kolkata Jamaat With the help of Almighty Allah Ta’ala we had a very successful blood donation camp on 03 March 2013 for dialysis patients by Khuddamul […]
Malaysia Hunts for Philippine Muslim Fighters After Assault
By Daniel Ten Kate & Barry Porter – Mar 6, 2013 BLOOMBERG Malaysian security forces searched door-to-door in the eastern state of Sabah after attacking an armed Muslim clan from […]
Upright Opinion – For God Sake Deweaponize Karachi
By Saeed Qureshi Lately there has been a spate of deadly explosions in Karachi and Quetta killing scores of innocent, peaceful citizens of this hapless country. It is indispensable to de-weaponize Karachi in order to restore a modicum of peace in that city now entirely left at the mercy of […]
Rabbi Menachem Froman’s Unique Legacy of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence – Settler Cultivated Contacts With Palestinians and Hardliners
By Harvey Stein The Jewish Daily FORWARD Published March 04, 2013. Menachem Froman, Backed Coexistence With Muslim Fundamentalists, Dies at 68 Rabbi Menachem Froman, who died Monday at age 68, […]
President SBY urged to take radical steps to end discrimination against religious minorities
In their recommendations, the groups asked the President to scrap existing regulations which they said were discriminatory, such as the Blasphemy Law, the joint ministerial decree regulating the building of […]
Blasphemy in Islam: The Quran does not prescribe punishment for abusing the Prophet
Source: The Times of India Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Oct 2, 2012, 12.00AM IST In Islam, blasphemy is a subject of intellectual discussion rather than a subject of physical punishment. This concept […]
In Religion’s Name: Abuses against Religious Minorities in Indonesia
HRW: Feburary 28, 2013: Glossary Ahmadiyah An Islamic religious revivalist movement, founded in Qadian, Punjab, originating with the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908). In Arabic, Ahmadiyah means “followers of Ahmad” and adherents are sometimes called “Ahmadis.” It began its presence in the Indonesian Sumatra Island in 1925. It was […]
The dark ages of Pakistan
The News: by Harris Khalique: In medieval Europe, heretics were burnt alive, rebels were quartered and their body parts were sent to the remote corners of the country, those who believed that the earth revolved around the sun were admonished and threatened. The Christian church held sway over kings, queens […]
Bin Laden son-in-law detained overseas, brought to New York (with the help of Jordan)
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Truce of Hudaibiyah: A Grand victory in Islamic history
Epigraph: “Indeed, we have granted thee (Muhammad) a clear victory, That Allah may cover up for thee thy shortcomings, past and future, and that He may complete His favor upon […]
Allah’s mercy and the fragile world we live in
OF THE 99 beautiful names of Allah, it is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim that we use most frequently in our prayers and du’aa. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from the same Arabic root word, rahma, meaning “mercy, compassion.” Pickthall translates Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim as “the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and Yusuf Ali […]
Saudi Arabia: Council of “Supreme Scholars” Rejects the Appointment of Women
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: wluml.org Source: PI Online “A controversy erupted this week in Saudi Arabia when some scholars suggested that the top religious organization in the Kingdom, […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Hugo Chavez Will Resurrect With Jesus
Source: Hiffinton Post Hugo Chavez had a friend in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who apparently held the Venezuelan leader in such high regard that he believes he will “return on […]
Netanyahu’s children
…… not the prime minister’s biological children, but they all were the creation of his spirit, students of his views and pupils of his government’s policies. These Israeli skinheads are […]
A Marked Life
Source: the revealer – a daily review of religion and media By Saba Imtiaz The Akram family’s house looks like any other in Nawabshah, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province. […]