Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: the Emirates enigma – who’s really in charge? Tracing the evolution of Abu Dhabi’s rulers from desert introverts to global treasure-hunters – and explaining the complex blend of kinship and rivalry that governs their relationship with the more ostentatious Dubai and Qatar ROBERT FISK ABU […]
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
First posted by Zubair Khan An Ahmadiyya Muslim delegation today met the Honorable Prime Minister of India in New Delhi The News as reported by the National News Channel in […]
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:180) The Huffington Post | By Jade […]
Source: Nature Why I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students By Rana Dajani, who is associate professor of molecular biology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, and a visiting scholar at the Faraday Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. 22 April 2015 Certain problematic attitudes towards science have been imported into Muslim societies as […]
WHO was afraid of Sabeen Mahmud? Was it the state or a non-state actor that silenced a brave voice of reason? Was it a mere coincidence that she was gunned down after a seminar on Balochistan that she had organised? Or was it one of those shadowy extremist groups who […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 25 April 2015 Last update 26 April 2015 2:14 pm The expansion of the mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready […]
Reuters / Jordan Times / Apr.29, 2015 A file picture taken on June 18, 2004 shows Saudi Arabia’s Adel Al Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Crown Prince, addressing a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC (AFP photo) RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister, a […]
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis? Who, What, WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news 8 August 2014 SOURCE: bbc.com Share Among the many victims of the advance of The Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East are a group of up to 50,000 Yazidis, who are trapped […]
Tariq Ahmad. K, Incharge, Press & Media, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at India. Kindly click the image to enlarge:
Tariq Ahmad. K, Incharge, Press & Media, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at India. Kindly click the image to enlarge:
The ‘Great Mosque of Guangzhou’ is also known as Huaisheng Mosque which means ‘Remember the Sage’ (A Memorial Mosque to the Prophet) and is also popularly called the ‘Guangta Mosque’ […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star What happens when chronic violence and brutal aggression go unchecked for decades on end? We see an example of this in the release this week of the findings of a United Nations internal investigation of events during last summer’s war in Gaza. The report […]
Summary Shashi Tharoor| The Daily Star Roy’s brutal murder (his wife was maimed, but survived) – together with the fatal stabbing of another atheist blogger, Washiqur Rahman, barely a month […]
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: The acceptable face of the Emirates While Dubai is a byword for excess, vulgarity and human rights abuses, the UAE’s capital affects a higher calling. So, alongside the Emirates Palace Hotel (1,022 crystal chandeliers), the Grand Mosque (capacity: 40,000) and four million foreign workers, there […]
Source: indiatoday.intoday.in Radio Iran has claimed that Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. The Guardian had earlier reported that al-Baghdadi was severely injured in a US-led coalition air […]
Source: pakistanchristianpost.com Glasgow: April 28, 2015. (PCP) Following a successful fundraising campaign, Global Minorities Alliance (GMA) organised an event on 26 April in Youhanabad, Lahore, to support the victims of the Youhanabad Church blasts, which killed 17 and injured 70 on the 15 March 2015. Since the attack the usually vibrant […]
By S. Waleed Ahmad Humanity First USA Making Urgent Appeal to Help Save Lives More than 4000 have died as a result of the earthquake in Nepal and almost 8 […]
Source: ET why is he alone? Why does Nasir say there is no one in politics he sees himself aligning with politically? Where one thinks of Sabeen, or Rashid Rehman or Perween Rahman and with Nasir attempting to pick up the mantle, why does it appear that those being picked […]