TOI: Yudhvir Rana. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community within Islam was founded in 1889 and spans over 250 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions having current headquarters in UK, informed Secretary Press Committee, Sheikh Mujahid Ahmad while talking to TOI on Tuesday. AMRITSAR: Ahmadiyya’s from across the world including Pakistan would converge at Qadian in Gurdaspur […]
Daily Times: Qaisar Rashid. Islam is very particular about the differentiation between the real intent and the declared objectives of its followers. Can militancy serve the cause of Islam? Why do followers of a (divine) religion resort to militancy? Is it to get the voice of the religion heard or […]
Daily Times: Babar Ayaz. Extremists give religious cover to all anti-women social and cultural values of the tribal and feudal societies and innovation: Ijtihad or Ijma Women rights activists are gearing up the world over to celebrate the ‘One Billion Rising’ of women and men against ‘violence against women’. The […]
Rfi. Tony Cross. The Taliban are to attend a conference near Paris along with supporters of President Hamid Karzai and peaceful opposition parties this week. The meeting comes after the Afghan government published a peace roadmap, which invites the rebels to take official positions if they give up violence. The Taliban […]
Guardian: They are big. They have young and growing populations. They have invested in infrastructure and education. And they are growing at the sort of rates that make them the […]
JERUSALEM — More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and thousands of years after they were written — Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images […]
A Japanese mayor has hailed a resident of his city for becoming the world’s oldest person. At 115 years old, Jiroemon Kimura inherited the title from an American woman who died on Monday. Read more
It seems that the hotbed of news items and endless supply of blood splattered images of innocent minority victims are coming from mostly Pakistan these days. Often times, a question is raised as to what is the sentiment of the people of Pakistan regarding this image, extremism, and human […]
Epigraph: “And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples.” (Al Quran 21:108) By Habib Toumi, Bureau GULFNEWS.online December 18, 2012 Manama: A $1 […]
Daily Times: by Mohammad Ahmad: If there are Muslims elected to the US Congress or the UK House of Commons, why cannot a Christian or a Hindu be elected to a general seat in our assemblies? Elections are a representation of the will of the people and form the basis […]
Source: ET LAHORE: Just this year, nine places of worship have been damaged, destroyed or vandalised in Pakistan. This includes five churches and three Hindu temples. Part of a disturbing trend in violence against minorities in the country, at least 27 places of worship of religious minorities have been vandalised in […]
Aljazeera: Our online community requested that we cover the largely underreported struggles of the Ahmaddiya community. Discussion on Ahmadiyya starts at 11:40 minutes into the programme. Controversy surrounds the Ahmadiyya community […]
STORY SUMMARY Iran has detailed a plan to put an end to the crisis in its ally Syria, calling for an immediate ceasefire and the start of national dialogue between Damascus and rebels, media reported on Monday. Iran has long advocated a political solution and dialogue between the government and […]
Epigraph: “And already have We (Allah) written in the Book of David, after the exhortation, that My righteous servants shall inherit the land.” (Al Quran 21:106) Reuters | Dec 17, […]
ZEINA KARAM | ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday 17 December 2012 BEIRUT: Syria’s vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called […]
Daily Times: Fawad Aslam. I stood by the statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba erected to honour this great Islamic polymath. Then I remembered the grave of our very own Dr Abdus Salam The year is 1492, the year of the discovery of America, the year when Granada, the last […]
By DAVID MCCORMACK MAIL ONLINE NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. A Turkish journalist working with Engel, Aziz Akyavaş, is […]
These images speak of positive history and contributions of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Israel even though the reporter has tried to paint them with a negative brush: Wikipedia: The […]
Source: The Express Tribune. When Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited Dhaka in November to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid to attend the D-8 summit in Islamabad, a demand was put forward that Pakistan apologise over “crimes committed by the state in 1971.” Khar responded with the standard […]
Source: RT news Adrian Salbuchi for RT The human price of a recent fire at a Bangladeshi factory was over a hundred lives, reminding the world that for “western free-market democracy,” the words “human price” have another, very direct meaning. On November 24, a horrific flash fire broke out in […]