With billions of dollars hanging in the balance, Israel and Iran have been waging legal war in Swiss courtrooms since 1981 – while conducting behind-the-scenes contacts over an ever-growing debt to the National Iranian Oil Company. By Aluf Benn | Jan. 17, 2015 | 8:14 AM Thursday, January 23, 2014, […]
Source:TOI BEIJING: China has begun investigating a significant aspect of the lives of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, which concerns the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. It has sacked 32 officials for sending “unqualified people” on government organized tours to Mecca from the disturbed province. Officials removed from their post include Aniwar […]
Source:CNN Just two days before the Paris rally, my friend Raif Badawi was removed, in shackles, from a mini-bus outside the Al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah as a large crowd gathered around him after Friday prayers. According to eyewitnesses, he closed his eyes and raised his head skyward as a security […]
354. Commandment – To spend your money on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives [2:178] It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is […]
Pope Francis called on Muslim leaders in particular to speak out against Islamic extremism ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of […]
Source:ET Editor Note: An extremely moving video specially for those having school going children. Video
Source: ET General Raheel Sharif is a very busy man. In particular, he is seen as advancing parts of the National Action Plan (NAP) that sit in his bailiwick. Currently, he is in London for three days and he is meeting people who make things happen. On his first day […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Qadian: Abdul Qadir Dehlvi passed away here in Qadian after a long illness, it has been reported, Inna Lillah-e-wa Inna iLaihi Rajeoon. He was 97 years old. Dehlvi breathed […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Georgia Walker, the Missouri woman who underwent an unsanctioned ordination ceremony earlier this month in an attempt to become a Roman Catholic priest, has been excommunicated from the church. […]
353. Commandment – show kindness to kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and to the neighbour that is a kinsman and the neighbour that is a stranger, and the companion by your side, and the wayfarer [4:37] And worship Allah and associate naught with Him, and show kindness to parents, and to kindred, and orphans, and […]
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Iyad bin Amin Madani speaks at a news conference in Najaf, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday. (Reuters) AGENCIES Published — Thursday 15 January 2015 RIYADH/CAIRO: Iyad Madani, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has denounced the publication of sacrilegious cartoons […]
On Thursday, a Saudi blogger will receive his second flogging for ‘insulting Islam’. Robert Fisk looks at a barbaric regime with a brutal record ROBERT FISK Wednesday 14 January 2015 […]
The Express Tribune — BANGLADESH: The entire village gathered at Based Ali’s house to celebrate something he never wanted, something he had struggled to admit for many years. “Parents generally help their kids study,” he said. “But I pressured my daughter instead to marry when she was 14. I pressured her […]
By Saeed Qureshi The paramount question intriguing the discerning students of history has been that why an iconic, revolutionary and charismatic leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met with a tragic end. […]
352. Commandment – And if thou hast to turn away from them while seeking thy Lord’s mercy for which thou hopest, even then speak to them a gentle word [17:29] And if thou hast to turn away from them while seeking thy Lord’s mercy for which thou hopest, even then […]
Source: m.asianews.it Lukman Hakim Saifuddin intervenes in a dispute involving a Muslim professor in Banda Aceh, who took her students to a church. He called the dean of the university, asking […]
Source: thediplomat.com The attacks should prompt Muslim-majority states to examine their own records. The two major Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, have joined the chorus of condemnations against […]
By Steven Jiang, CNN Story highlights Xinjiang province passes law to ban wearing burqa in public A spate of violent incidents has rocked Xinjiang, long inhabited by the largely Muslim […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: In an apparent move to accelerate implementation of the National Action Plan, the government plans to introduce new laws to combat hate speech in the country. Under the proposed ‘Hate Speech and Inciting Literature’ laws, it will not be permitted to express hatred towards someone based on ethnicity, […]
Source: bbc.co.uk The overwhelming tone of reaction from Middle Eastern press is one of shock and categorical condemnation of the 7 January attack on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo and the killing of 12 people. But within the overall rejection that dominated the papers’ front pages, a small […]