Source: Times of Israel The voice on the other line introduced himself as Ralph (all of the names in this story have been changed) and simply asked: “Do you come to Tel Aviv to do britot?” I answered, “Yes.” He told me that he needed a mohelfor this coming Thursday. […]
Source: Dawn It has happened to me, and it can happen to anyone. In plain sight of my unsuspecting family, I was radicalised during my teenage years. It did not matter that I lived a privileged life — not all terrorists fit the stereotype of poor, illiterate people who have […]
Source: ET The petitioner submitted that before soliciting her hand in marriage Alfred Masih had introduced himself as a Muslim. PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: The Walton Cantonment Board and the Lahore Cantonment Board do not register marriages of Christians and Ahmadis, stating that they only register marriages solemnised under Muslim Family Laws Ordinance […]
Source. CNN (CNN)At least 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a stabbing spree at a facility for disabled people west of Tokyo, making it one of Japan’s deadliest mass killings since World War II. Nine men and 10 women, ranging in age from 18 to 70, were killed […]
Source: ET There are over three million (1% of the United States population) Muslims living in America. Even though anti-Muslim animus is generally on the rise across the country, President Obama has increasingly stood up for the Muslim American community. He has passionately promoted pluralism and diversity in the United States and vouches for religious tolerance […]
Source: Dawn. Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence in many parts of the Hindu-majority country, police said Wednesday. The meat the women were carrying has since turned out to be buffalo, but police in Madhya […]
Source: Dawn GHOTKI: Communal tensions ran high in Sindh’s Ghotki district on Wednesday, after a Hindu man was arrested for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran a day earlier. Two Hindu men were shot having tea at a stall in Ghotki’s town of Mirpur Mathelo during an attack by a mob […]
Source: BBC By Kamal Ahmed Chancellor Philip Hammond has begun discussions with China on an ambitious free trade deal which could see greater access for major Chinese banks and businesses […]
Source: The Guardian Tom Phillips in Beijing The Global Times, a Communist party-run tabloid, said Xiaoshan, a district in south-east Hangzhou where the G20 meeting will be held, had outlawed […]
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Source: Religion News Service MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) An Indian Muslim women’s rights organization is training women to be qazis, or judges, a role traditionally reserved for men, amid growing […]
Source: Huffington Post ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s ruling party plans to pass long-delayed legislation against “honor killings” within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of an outspoken social […]
Source: BBC There has been outrage in India after a student was allegedly gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. Police are yet to make […]
aljazeera.com: by Chandana Banerji — For the abandoned babies rescued from death on the streets of Jalandhar, Unique Home provides shelter and a family For the past 23 years, Prakash Kaur Bibi has rescued baby girls abandoned at birth by their biological parents [Photo courtesy of Unique Home for […]
Source: BBC All 300,000 mosques in Bangladesh have been asked give a sermon against terrorism and extremism in their Friday prayers this week. The sermon, written by the state-run Islamic […]
Source: youtube.com/TrueIslam Answered by Hazrat Mira Tahir Ahmad (ra), fourth Caliph of the Promised Messiah (as) A video made by Abdul shafi Bharwana, Officially Incharge of Social Media Wing, Sierra Leone; Missionary in Sierra Leone; Lecturer in Jamia Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Vice President, Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Editor African Crescent, Sierra Leone; […]
Source. thehindu.com Even as some Islamic organisations in Tamil Nadu have protested the Central government’s remarks on controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and have defended his right to preach, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Chennai allege that they have been facing discrimination from some of the organisations. Noor Muhammad.M, president […]
Source. Media Library As our anchors and TV channels commit national and logical suicide by referring to Ahmadi Mosques as “marakaz” and “Ibadgahs”, we must remind ourselves of the views of Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah who relied heavily on the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and its brilliant son Ch. Zafrulla Khan (whose […]
Source: The Daily Beast We were sitting on the cliffs as darkness fell, obscuring our view of the niches across from us where the giant Buddhas had for centuries smiled upon the fertile valley. It had only been a few years before that they were blasted away by the Taliban. The […]
Source: Dawn DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said.The move comes […]