The entrepreneurs making money out of thin air
By Vikram Barhat 16 May 2017 Whether enveloped by the thick smog from factories or choked with invisible poisons from vehicle exhausts, many cities around the world are losing […]
Indonesia’s Aceh: Two gay men sentenced to 85 lashes
Source: BBC A Sharia court in Indonesia’s Aceh province has sentenced two men to be caned in public for having gay sex. The men were found guilty of violating strict […]
Insurgents attack state TV building in Afghanistan
Source: CNN A number of insurgents have attacked a building housing a state TV station in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, police tell CNN.An explosion was heard from the vicinity after the insurgents entered the building, Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said Wednesday.The situation is ongoing. More:
Even when wars end in the Middle East, superbugs and aggressive cancers caused by conflict attack
Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices A doctor tends to a soldier injured in fighting in Qaraqosh in Mosul, Iraq Getty/Chris McGrath The details were horrific. Outside the besieged […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat holds press conference in Dhaka – blames religious extremists for attack on Imam
ATTACK ON AHMADIYYA IMAM AMJ,B blames religious extremists Source: http://www.newagebd.net/article/15466/amjb-blames-religious-extremists Ahamadiyya Muslim Jama’at Bangladesh on Friday claimed that the May 8 attack on the imam of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Mymensingh was committed by the religious extremists as a part of conspiracy against Bangladesh. AMJ,B, muballigh in-charge Abdul Awwal Khan […]
Bangladesh: Three women of Ahmadiyya Muslim community honoured for their exceptional bravery
Source: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/05/16/mymensingh-women-bravery-militant/ Ashraf Uddin Sijel, Mymensingh Published at 06:26 PM May 16, 2017 Last updated at 06:52 PM May 16, 2017 Three Mymensingh women honoured for bravery in arrest of militant suspect Achhia Khatun, Most Ayatunnessa and Minara Khatun addressing the press on Tuesday, after being awarded by the police for […]
Studying the Koran, and also Einstein
Source: The Hindu BY Jyoti Shelar Jameas, community-run schools of Dawoodi Bohras, offer religious education that embraces and teaches secular worldview When it comes to Muslim religious schools, the word that […]
The Asian city that caters to everyone
Source: BBC By Lindsey Galloway 15 May 2017 With its 26 million people, Delhi has been described as a microcosm of India, with trappings from the country’s many cultures, religions […]
Pakistan daily leaks plans for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Two versions of the plans, running to 231 pages, are with the government. A shortened version, which has 30 pages of only broad descriptions of the plan, were circulated to […]
Ahraristan not Pakistan
It is quite a popular thing to trample on religious liberty of the citizens of Pakistan provided it is done in the name of Islam By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 15-May-17 I hate to keep repeating myself, but repeat myself I must so long as necessary. Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a party founded […]
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail National MAY 12, 2017 BY PAKISTANTODAY 37 men arrested for attacking an Ahmadi place of worship last year […]
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in China. We found that the Internet fuels — and fights — this.
Source: The Washington Post By Rose Luqiu and Fan Yang May 12 Children play near a cage protecting Chinese paramilitary policemen in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 2014. […]
Immigration, Islam and the West
Source: ET Colonialism brought Europe and the West to Asia and Africa. The tide has now turned. Demographic change and immigration are now bringing Asia and Africa to the West. The West prevailed in the first encounter that took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lands it conquered […]
Bakhtawar criticizes law forbidding public eating during Ramazan, says ‘this is not Islam’
Source: The Express Tribune Perturbed by legislation making eating in public during Ramazan a jailable offence, Bakhtawar Bhutto took to Twitter to condemn the rule. The daughter of former […]
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience 3 hours ago PNN/ Ramallah/ The Media Committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ society, present the summary of the twenty-eighth day of the collective hunger strike, which was embarked by the prisoners’ movement in […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya Muslims question govt sincerity for security
Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 2017-05-13 PreviousNext Ahmadiyya Muslim community chief Mobasherur Rahman has questioned the government sincerity in ensuring their security and said the attacks are unabated. He said at a media conference that the authorities do not act as fast when the Ahmadiyyas come under attack as they […]
The Food of Ramadan: When and What to Eat
Sheela Prakash May 31, 2016 Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramadān) is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. During the whole month, observers of Islam fast from sunrise to sunset. During the fast, no food or drink is consumed, and thoughts must be kept pure. Followers of Islam believe that […]
Eurasian century beckons
EDITORIAL THE EDITORIAL BOARD ISTANBUL The ancient modern Silk Road between China and Europe will be revived, spreading prosperity and security along the way. This was the message sent at […]
Tillerson: Trump weighs impact of embassy move on Middle East peace
Hani Hazaimeh | Published — Monday 15 May 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Jeddah: US President Donald Trump is pondering whether moving the US Embassy in Israel from […]
Exclusive – Indonesian Islamist leader says ethnic Chinese wealth is next target
Reuters International MAY 12, 2017 – Chairman of GNPF-MUI, Bachtiar Nasir, arrives at a police station to testify as a witness in a money laundering case at a police station […]