Ahmadiyah faces problems in Indonesia
Ahmadiyah faces possible ban from Indonesia (an older video)
Suicide attack kills senior minister Bilour, seven others in Peshawar
Source: Dawn.Com Khyber Senior Minister and and senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Bashir Ahmed Bilour was killed in the suicide attack.—File Photo PESHAWAR: Senior provincial minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour was among eight people killed Saturday after a Pakistani Taliban bomber blew himself up near a meeting of […]
Politics and state
Source: Dawn.com TWO slogans in Pakistan’s two largest cities — both emphasising the leader. In Lahore the stage is being prepared for the return of Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri. In Karachi, wall chalkings of the MQM’s earlier slogan, ‘Manzil nahin rehnuma chahiye’ (leader not destination) have cropped up once again. […]
Indonesian clerics vs. Santa Claus
Global Post: Patrick Winn. Is “Merry Christmas” forbidden in Muslim-majority Indonesia? Another Christmas season, another year of hand wringing for Muslim-majority Indonesia‘s arbiters of piety. As the Jakarta Globe reports, Indonesia’s top Islamic rule-making body (the Indonesia Ulema Council) is again warning Muslims toforego all Christmas “rituals”. In other words, don’t […]
New light on Early Islam shed by Buried Christian Empire
Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Early Islam By Matthias Schulz Paul Yule The “crowned man” relief found in Zafar, Yemen is seen as evidence that there was a Christian empire in the region before Islam took hold. Archeologists are studying the ruins of a buried Christian empire in […]
Mob justice: Alleged blasphemer lynched in front of police
Express Tribune: DADU: In an appalling incident of mob justice, a man was lynched for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran in a village in Dadu district of Sindh on Friday. More alarming is the fact that the unidentified man was burnt to death right in front of the police inside the […]
Video: Ahmadiyya Muslim Rights and History of Pakistan: Rawal TV interviews Mujeeb ur Rehman Sahib
You tube: Excellent and eloquent defence of Ahmadiyya Muslim role, rights and creation of Pakistan Watch in Youtube:
Interfaith marriages: Why the taboo?
Source: ET As the cliché goes – love is blind; blind even to religious differences. Ava and Neil made a great pair. It’s rare to come across a couple so compatible and in tune with each other. They complemented each other perfectly. Spending time with them was always a pleasure; […]
Unfair uproar against Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline: Shame on Saudi lobby in Washington D.C.
Source: LUBP Saudi Arabia is key sponsor of Takfiri terrorism in Pakistan and other countries According to diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia is currently pushing Islamabad to abandon its plan for importing natural gas from Iran. Riyadh is also believed to be concerned over a recent move by Tehran offering crude […]
Mentoring the modern Muslim woman
By SAMAR FATANY AL ARABIYA NEWS Saturday, 22 December 2012 “Saudi Women in International Organizations” was the theme of a meeting which gathered together more than 150 professional women in […]
Trapped inside Burma’s refugee camps, the Rohingya people call for recognition
Source: Guardian Muslim group languishes in makeshift homes with no work, no schools and no citizenship rights from Burmese government. The helicopter cuts a sharp arc away from the sea and sweeps over pagoda-topped hills and dusty farmland until a mass of dirty white tents comes into view. Soon throngs […]
India Shaken from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
Source: http://zeenews.india.com & http://aajtak.intoday.in India is shaken from Kashmir to Kanyakumari! Rarely, if ever, have so many people taken to the streets in so many different places for a single […]
Putin says democracy solution to Syria crisis
BRUSSELS: ARAB NEWS Saturday 22 December 2012 Russian President Vladimir Putin met with European leaders in Brussels to discuss energy, Syria and human rights, but reached no agreements — as officials on both sides had predicted in advance. Putin said after yesterday’s meeting that Russia isn’t a defender of Syrian […]
हरयाणा के मुख्यमंत्री को दिया सालाना जलसे का निमंत्रण
सौजन्य : जागरण जासं, रोहतक : अहमदिया मुस्लिम जमाअत हरियाणा के मिशनरी इंचार्ज ताहिर अहमद तारीक के नेतृत्व में पांच सदस्यीय प्रतिनिधिमंडल ने प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री को 121वें सालाना जलसे में पहुंचने का निमंत्रण दिया है। यह कार्यक्रम 29 दिसंबर से 31 दिसंबर तक अहमदिया ग्राउंड कादियान जिला गुरुदासपुर पंजाब […]
80 देशों से लोग जुटेंगे सर्वधर्म सम्मेलन में
सौजन्य : जागरण कादियां में हो रहे सर्वधर्म सम्मेलन में अस्सी देशों के मुस्लिम डेलीगेट शामिल होंगे। उक्त विचार अहमदिया मुस्लिम जमात के प्रधान जहीर अहमद खादिम ने हेरीटेज में हुए पत्रकार सम्मेलन के दौरान व्यक्त किए। उन्होंने कहा कि हर साल की तरह इस साल भी 121वां जलसा वार्षिक […]
The other day I saw a man on a bridge, about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it, brother!”
Author: Unknown He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” “Yes, of course.” I said, “Are you a Muslim or a non-Muslim?” “Muslim.” I said, “Me, too! Shia or Sunni?” “Sunni.” “Me, too! What mazhab?” “Hanafi.” “Me, too! Deobandi or Barelvi?” “Barelvi.” “Me […]
Why Pakistan is not a failed state
Dawn Blog: byMichael Kugelman: It’s been about a week since the Connecticut school massacre, and Americans are still grieving. Yet we’re comforted by the thought that, with time, the bereaved community of Newtown will bounce back. Students will return to school, and victims’ families will somehow get on with their lives. […]
The forgotten Ahmadiyah women
Source: Indonesian-Ahmadiyya Studies, originally published in the The Jakarta Post, Winy Trianita, Watching violence against Ahmadiyah on TV (again!) has encouraged me to present another side of the Ahmadiyah which […]
For whom the Syrian bell tolls
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The top geopolitical tragedy in 2012 is bound to remain the top geopolitical tragedy in 2013: the rape of Syria. Just as once in a while I go back to my favorite Hemingway passages, lately I’ve been going back to some footage I shot […]
11 million Palestinians scattered around world
RAMALLAH — There are some 11 million Palestinians scattered around the world, including more than five million refugees living throughout the Middle East. Their plight has made headlines in Syria, where the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA says as many as 100,000 Palestinians may have fled the Yarmouk refugee […]