Muslim scholars and clerics: suicide bombings are un-Islamic. A conference of religious leaders is set to meet in January in Afghanistan specifically to publicize the fact that suicide bombing violence is not in the Quran. By Scott Peterson, Staff writer / December 24, 2012 Share on stumbleuponShare on email KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Suicide bombers […]
Additional suggested reading by the Muslim Times: How can Hindus think like a Muslim or a Jew, despite the mention of 330 million gods? Source: Rama Navami @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Navami Ram Navami […]
The Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 1. A vast majority of Ahmadi Muslims living across the world are still Pakistani in origin. Loving your homeland is a part of Ahmadiyya Muslim faith. Imam of Ahmadiyya Muslims continues ask the community to pray and fast especially for their homeland 2. With […]
Source: Daily Times Another barbaric incident has once again revealed this nation’s dysfunctional relationship with the country’s blasphemy laws and a social psyche so cruel that one cannot help but hang one’s head in shame. A man, accused of burning a copy of the holy Quran when staying overnight at […]
Source: ET About a week ago, a 20-year-old by the name of Adam Lanza walked into a school in Newtown, Connecticut — a small town a few hours northeast of New York City. In the next 30 minutes, Lanza shot and killed 27 people before finally killing himself. Of those […]
The Inquirer: The crowd was very unruly. This wasn’t your ordinary crowd because some of them were drunk as it was Christmas Eve, while others possibly high (on drugs),” Dolot said. He said the crowd was the primary reason why it took firefighters long to put out the fire. He […]
Source: DNA The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar and called upon its government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities. The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, which Myanmar said last month […]
By Patrick French in Liberty or Death(excerpts) French writes: Given that Amritsar could not become part of Pakistan, the adjoining district of Gurdapur (which was only 51 per cent Muslim) should […]
Express Tribune: TEL AVIV: Fifty members of an Indian community believed to be descendants of one of the lost tribes of Israel arrived on Monday in the Jewish state, completing their immigration. Linking up with family members who have already settled in Israel, they are among the first wave of the […]
Source: The Hindu Op-Ed by Haroon Habib December is a landmark month for Bangladesh. It is the month of the liberation of the country from Pakistan in 1971. And it is also a reminder of a great national tragedy — it was during the same month that year that the […]
……. “How do Jews celebrate Christmas?” …………. Were I to answer the “What do Jews believe” question today, I would give a very different response – one that speaks to […]
Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, A new survey conducted by the Indonesia Survey Circle (LSI) found that the majority of people are tolerant and concerned about worsening discrimination against […]
A conference of religious leaders is set to meet in January in Afghanistan specifically to publicize the fact that suicide bombing violence is not in the Quran. By Scott Peterson, Staff writer / December 24, 2012 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Suicide bombers in Afghanistan have shown little restraint: Wedding […]
AFTER reading a post about Israel’s aggressive attacks in Gaza on the BBC Facebook page, I took a look at the comments. There were many voicing anger over the grave situation. Not much to my surprise, I found a comment (of a Muslim) condemning the killing of Palestinian Muslims by […]
(Reuters) – Special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday to discuss a solution to the country’s 21-month-old conflict. Brahimi told journalists after the meeting that he discussed the situation in Syria overall and gave his views on how to solve the crisis. […]
Youtube: Video from last year but contains extremely shocking revelations by Farooq Maududi, son of Maulana Maududi. He paints a pathetic picture of his death, betrayal by his closest friends […]
Paktimes.au: The Secretary-General of the United Nations recently appointed nine new members to his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters to replace nine current ones whose terms will end on 31 December. Pervez Hoodbhoy from Pakistan was also nominated as a member of UN Secretary-General Advisory Board. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, is […]
By Sara Hussein BETHLEHEM: Thousands of Palestinians and tourists were flocking to the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday to mark Christmas at the site where many believe Jesus […]
SOURCE: JORDAN TIMES / AFP DAMASCUS — Festive spirit is a distant memory for Syria’s Christian minority as it faces a second Christmas in the grip of fear of daily […]
Source: ET. In an enlightening bit of news, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti recently announced Rs90 million for the rehabilitation and renovation of a church in Mardan that was destroyed back in September during riots over an amateur anti-Islam video. While this is a surprising move — as members […]