Ahmadiyah at the Bottom of Govt List for e-KTP Registration The Jakarta Globe: Mataram. The West Nusa Tenggara government put dozens of Ahamdiyah Muslims at the bottom of its list to register for an electronic identity card, known as e-KTP. Lalu Sajim Sastrawan, head of the province’s administration bureau, said […]
In June 2008, the Yudhoyono administration issued a decree requiring the Ahmadiyah sect to “stop spreading interpretations and activities that deviate from the principal teachings of Islam.” The government said the decree was necessary to prevent violence against the sect, but local governments used the decree to write even stricter […]
Uri Avnery ARABNEW Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has seen many demonstrations, but none quite like last Saturday’s. It has nothing to do with the event, which gave the square […]
Agus Triyono | May 22, 2012 THE JAKARTA GLOBE Trying to counter the growing intolerance in Indonesia, the country’s two largest Muslim organizations have expressed support for the protection of people’s constitutional rights to religious freedom amid several incidences of unilateral church foreclosures in the country. “By law, the government […]
by JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — An audience at the Doha Debates has publicly expressed opposition to state censorship of the arts, still strongly enforced in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, according to a statement issued by the organisers on Tuesday. In a live session where participants discussed a […]
Express Tribune: A day after the authorities briefly banned access to microblogging website Twitter due to ‘blasphemous’ material, the city capital police on the orders of a city court on […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS An acute shortage of cement is delaying most commercial and residential projects in Makkah, according to sources in the contracting sector. Amid an unprecedented construction boom featuring […]
Reuters | May 21,2012 | ARABNEWS CAIRO — The Arab League called on Tehran on Monday to halt what it described as a media campaign against Bahrain over a proposal for political and military union between Gulf Arab states. Saudi Arabia has been pushing the idea of closer Gulf integration […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday stressed that Jordan will continue its historic role in preserving and protecting the holy sites in Jerusalem, according to a […]
The NewYork Times- The opinion pages JAKARTA — Just a few days after Lady Gaga’s concert in Indonesia was canceled after protests by Islamic groups, I flew 1,370 kilometers from Jakarta to Padang, West Sumatra, and drove a further 130 kilometers, a four-hour journey along rough, winding roads, to Sijunjung, […]
Source: BBC online How will Nato exit from Afghanistan? Nato’s secretary general has said at a summit in Chicago that he is optimistic Pakistan will reopen a key supply route to Afghanistan. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expected such a move “in the very near future”. The routes were closed […]
Express Tribune: The honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan says he is losing patience with the Capital Development Authority (CDA). In a court-initiated (suo motu) action, he wants a quick rebuilding […]
Credit: ET By Rana Tanveer Published: May 21, 2012 A hoarding is installed behind the chhatri (flattened dome) at the entrance, so that the worship place does not look like a mosque. PHOTO: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: Clerics in Sultanpura who complained that an Ahmedi place of worship looked too much […]
Christians, RSS converting Muslims’ Boycott Ahmadiyas for conversions: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Source: The Times of India Rakhi Chakrabarty, TNN | May 20, 2012, 04.20AM IST NEW DELHI: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH), the largest body of imams, on Saturday sought social boycott of Qadyani, also known as Ahmadiyas, a sect who call themselves […]
BY: AFP ARABNEWS Sunday 20 May 2012 The Taekwondo star who became Afghanistan’s first ever Olympic medalist at the Beijing Games in 2008 wants to repeat the feat in London […]
Law No. 1/PNPS/1965 does not prohibit Ahmadis from professing and practicing their beliefs. RI must tell the truth at Geneva rights summit: HRWG Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta : Rights group have urged the Indonesian government not to deny the true state of the country’s human […]
BY: JEDDAH: ARAB NEWs The Holy Qur’an, which is full of divine instructions from the Creator, is the greatest of all blessings from God for mankind and is the panacea for all their problems, said Abdul Shukoor Ali, an Islamic researcher, community leader and a patron of cultural organization Thanima […]
AFP | May 20,2012 | JORDAN TIMES DOHA — Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani, on Sunday urged Israel’s coalition government to opt for peace and not bet on Arab leaders against their people amid sweeping Arab Spring uprisings. “I call on Israel to take a positive step […]
After blocking for many hours, Pakistani authorities have lifted a ban on twitter, the social networking website. Earlier Pakistan had blocked Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material […]
Let it be understood that, by and large, Islam is the only unifying factor in countries of the Muslim World. The Muslim heart, no matter how much of a hypocrite, […]