Understanding Islam is easy now G. V. R. SUBBA RAO SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ PHOTO: V. RAJUBook-lovers browsing the pages of Quran at a stall put up at the ongoing Vijayawada Book Festival in Vijayawada on Tuesday. Andhra PradeshVijayawada arts, culture and entertainmentbooks and literature religion and beliefislam Publishers bring Quran and other […]
Source: New Religion via Nasim Malik of Sweden. Ummad Farooq speaks out against sectarian violence in Pakistan, weeks after his brother was murdered for being an Ahmadi Saad Farooq (left) with younger brother Ummad Farooq (right) By S. Taalay Ahmed I’m sitting across the table from Ummad Farooq in a small […]
Source: ET SSP rally had spread hate speech against Shias. PHOTO: EXPRESS/IRFAN ALI We are our biggest enemies. This is something many fail to see because they believe external forces are to blame for Pakistan’s problems but the recent filing of a first information report (FIR) in Multan against members […]
by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary To help oust President Bashar Assad, a Syrian opposition group has drafted a plan for a transitional justice system that would impose harsh penalties against diehard members of his inner circle but provide amnesty for most of his Alawite supporters. To […]
Petra | Jan 07, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES ZARQA — A man on Monday found JD320,000 in a bag in Zarqa Governorate. Zarqa Police Department Director Brig. Gen. Mohammad Thaher said the man called a radio station and informed them about the money he had found. He noted that the […]
Source: Daily Ummat: Salimuddin-tweet- News Item in Urdu appeared in Daily Ummat. Muslim Clergy is protesting that Ahmadies are declaring themselves openly as Muslims on the internet and have requested […]
Express Tribune: MUMBAI: A row over an unpaid restaurant bill in a western Indian city escalated into a riot between Hindus and Muslims that left four people dead and 175 injured, police said on Monday. The unrest broke out in Dhule in Maharashtra state on Sunday, special inspector general Deven Bharti told AFP. […]
Source: BBC News Situated in the blue waters of the Bay of Bengal, St Martin Island is one of the most beautiful places in Bangladesh. Popular with both local and foreign tourists, it is a coral island of sandy beaches, coconut palms and bountiful marine life. The island does […]
Source: ET A case was registered on Saturday against several members of a banned militant organisation Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), calling Shias and inciting violence against them. The First Information Report was registered at the City police station at Jalalpur Peerwala on the basis of a Special Branch report. It said […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday 7 January 2013 RAMALLAH, West Bank: The Palestinian self-rule government is close to being “completely incapacitated,” largely because Arab countries haven’t delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid, the Palestinian prime minister said in an interview yesterday. If allowed to continue, the Palestinian Authority’s unprecedented […]
The Nation: RAWALPINDI – It turned out to be a rumour that around 25 members of Ahmadiyya community managed to gather at a ‘disputed’ worship place in Rawalpindi to attend Friday prayers, when local police carried out a search operation of the building on the request of a mob, fraught […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 7 January 2013 The Ministry of Haj has started implementing electronic service for Umrah pilgrims this year. “We have received applications for 700 Umrah visas through the new system, including 280 from Indonesia, 227 from South Africa, 43 from Pakistan, 30 from US, 29 from Kenya, […]
Daily Times: No state, modern or ancient, secular or religious, has successfully managed to exercise thought control on its citizens. The government’s flip-flop last week over the YouTube ban has once again exposed the misplaced priorities and a profound lack of logical and rational decision making on its part. YouTube […]
(AFP) / 6 January 2013 KHALEEJ TIMES RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas gave orders on Sunday for work to begin on new passports, ID cards, drivers’ licences […]
Ian Black, Middle East editor The Guardian, Sunday 6 January 2013 Rebels say Syrian president offered no meaningful concessions in his first public speech in seven months Syria’s opposition and […]
Arutz Sheva: Christian Arabs are cosying up to the Muslims, but it will do them no good. They, too, are on the Jihad list. This includes a noted Palestinian Arab […]
KHILAFAT To those who oppose US This poem was read in Toronto on Khilafat Day Mushaira Khilafat ki barkat say ham sab yahan Khilafat hamaray liyay misl-e maan Khilafat hamaray liey thandi chaan Tum kaho is ko barbadi islam ki? Yeh ilzam jhoota nahin manatay Ham agar mantay hain […]
Source: ET NEW DELHI: Pakistan lost the third One Day International (ODI) against India by 10 runs in New Delhi on Sunday, but managed to seal its victory in the series by winning the first two matches. More:
Story Summary If, as I noted in my column Thursday, Jordan is the one country that best captures the many contradictory political, social, religious and cultural sentiments swirling across the Arab world, now is the best time to visit the country as these sentiments are being expressed in public during […]
Story Summary The ageing Christians holed up inside a retirement home in the devastated northern Syrian city of Aleppo have no light, no telephone lines, and little idea of what […]