by Rabwah Times The Ahmadiyya Mosque located in the village of Gemuh in the Kendal Regency of Central Java was vandalized late Sunday night. Mosque Board has reported the incident to Gemuh sector’s Chief of Police, I Wayan Suprapto. The loss is estimated to be around 15,000 USD. However, there […]
Source: The Guardian Pakistan on Sunday accused the United States of violating its sovereignty with a drone strike against the leader of the Afghan Taliban in a remote border area […]
Source. The Nation In a town that is always ringing with slogans and high on religious hatred, lived Sitara. Tiny and beautiful like her name, she had an unquenchable thirst to learn new things and phenomena around her. She grew up questioning everything around us. Such was the scale of […]
By AFP – May 21,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Israeli forces stand guard next to their armoured vehicle during confrontations with Palestinians following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, on Friday (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s defence minister resigned Friday, saying extremists had taken over the […]
May 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The recapture of the Iraqi town of Rutba by government forces gives two strong indications: that Daesh is not invincible; that the Iraqi military knows how to win a battle when it is determined, without having to use ragtag militias like Badr […]
Source. Rabwah Times Pakistan’s leading Human Rights activist Asma Jahangir has said that Ahmadiyya Muslims are the most persecuted religious minority in Pakistan. Jahangir made the remarks while speaking at the Hudson Institute on May 18th, in Washington D.C. The event was moderated by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani. Answering a […]
Source.ET The conference was organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in collaboration with the European Union. PHOTO: AFP LAHORE: The National Action Plan—formulated to eradicate terrorism—has failed to curb religious extremism and hate speech, speakers at a conference organised on Friday observed. They made the remarks while speaking […]
May 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI On this 68th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel and the exile and refugeehood of half of the Palestinian Arab population of 1948, Israelis, Zionists and their friends should be concerned because something significant is taking place in […]
Meeting an injured soldier in the Syrian army before a heavy night of shelling Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 Lebanon, 21 July 1989 Private Yahia Saloum of the Syrian army sat on the stairs of my apartment block, his head in his hands, a large bandage strapped to his […]
Source: BBC A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in […]
Source. Bilal Aslam of Germany via The Cricket Monthly. Faisal bin Mubashir thought he could make it. On January 4, 2014, he thought he could pull through to a double-century. “The season was going very well, but I had [been getting out in] the nervous 90s,” he recalls as we […]
National Monument of Bangladesh The Real Source of Terror in Bangladesh Source: NY Times By William B. Milam, who is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington […]
Source. The Local Amnesty International’s Refugees Welcome Index shows that China is the country where people are most willing to take in refugees. Germany comes a close second. More.
Source: ET Shahbaz Taseer has spoken up for the first time about his five-year horrific ordeal. Why now, is anyone’s guess but with so much negativity and fabrications going around, perhaps it was time to set the record straight. Even after his interview with CNN and BBC where he had […]
Source: ET Prayer leader wants Muslims to vouch for family. PHOTO: AFP/FILE LAHORE: A Gujrat-based Christian family is on the verge of having blasphemy charges pressed against it after reportedly dining on a panaflex banner, The Express Tribune has learnt. A local prayer leader and his followers have been pestering police […]
Source: CNN By Juliet Perry, CNN (CNN)A major storm has hammered Sri Lanka, leaving dozens feared dead in landslides and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Thirty-seven […]
PRISONER TESTIMONIES Stories of torture in Syria shock Swiss students By Islah Bakhat, Bern MAY 18, 2016 – http://www.swissino.ch In Bern, some 170 pupils under the age of 20 came to hear the activists’ testimony. (swissinfo.ch) Two Syrian refugees have described to Swiss students the brutal torture they suffered while in […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 18 May 2016 GOOD WORK: Umrah pilgrims hailed the Saudi government for mataf expansion in Makkah. MAKKAH: Umrah pilgrims have hailed the mataf expansion in Makkah as “distinguished” and “amazing,” saying that the achievement speaks a lot about the attention the Saudi government […]
Source: The Guardian By Tahmima Anam I am a novelist. I look around at the world and I make up stories about people, families, lovers and friends. More often than not, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Nils Petter Gleditsch and Ida Rudolfsen Most recent civil wars have taken place in Muslim countries, and a large majority of the victims are Muslims. […]