Dawn.com: by Faisal Bari — Ahmadis have been hounded out of jobs; they have been booked for ‘preaching’ their religion; they have been asked to remove Quranic verses from their places of worship; some have been denied burial space in graveyards. A fellow citizen and a friend, a Christian by […]
Huff Post: With the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Dominion of Pakistan came into existence on Aug. 14, 1947. The valiant and astute Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the minority Muslim community of United India to the fulfillment of its dream for a separate homeland. The basis for the very […]
The group calling itself “The Islamic State” continues its drive to conquer and rule a piece of the Middle East. Its violent campaign to spread its extreme form of Islam challenges the governments of both Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. A massive relief crisis is ongoing as hundreds of thousands of […]
For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents. For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it is coloured by the blood […]
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The Express Tribune: by Ayesha Siddiqa — As the state celebrates its 67th birthday, there is an absence of a natural sense of exaltation. The sense of weariness is not due to incessant roadblocks, temporary fuel shortage and uncertainty about how the government-opposition conflict will unfold. It is also not because people […]
It is being organised as per directions from global leadership of the community. Source: thehindu.com The youth wing of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat will organise a peace conference in Kozhikode in the backdrop of conflicts between different countries, cultures, and belief systems, at 5 p.m. on August 16. Jamaat leaders told […]
News from Shahid Badruddin, Bangalore Alhamdulillah, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangalore has conducted a very fruitful Eid Milan Party outside the Ahmadiyya Masjid Premises on Sunday the 10th of August. Prior to […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is Allah as […]
Source: pressahmadiyya.com In this month’s issue we regret to report the murder of four Ahmadi Muslims. Two victims were children, attacked by Anti-Ahmadiyya Mobs who set their homes on fire, while […]
Source: Time Magazine By Hannah Beech / Linxia @hkbeech Aug. 12, 2014 Beijing bans some Muslims from observing Ramadan, or boarding public transport while veiled, but it allows millions of others to […]
RT: The Iranian parliament has voted to ban all forms of permanent contraception and prohibit the advertisement of birth control. The vote endorses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s calls to […]
Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan. In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]
By Maryam Hedayat “Muslims are busy in shopping for Eid and people of Gaza are busy buying coffin every minute” wrote one of my Palestinian friends on her Facebook status. No doubt, I was really very sad and upset over what she expressed in solidarity with her fellow Palestinians. Millions around […]
Is America behind the creation of the Islamic State? The BBC’s Suzanne Kianpour, in Beirut, looks at the latest conspiracy theory doing the rounds in Lebanon. “In the Middle East, conspiracy theories are in our blood,” one former Lebanese official said over lunch in a restaurant in central Beirut. He […]
NDTV: Cuttack: A leader of the ruling BJP’s ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, has controversially suggested that India is a Hindu state and “citizens of Hindustan should be known as Hindus”, provoking a political storm. At a function on Sunday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, “The entire world […]
Raising the voice in favor of the oppressed is our responsibility. Composed by Fazal Ahmadi 9th August 2014: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Kolkata organized Eid Milan Function at Hotel Golden Park, Kolkata. […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee on Aug 10, 2014 By withdrawing ground troops from Gaza last week, Israel showed signs of finally winding down its Operation Protective Edge, after nearly a month of pounding Gaza in an attempt to debilitate Hamas. In reality, Israel fell for the sinister […]
The Express Tribune: 1954 was the year of the Munir Report; and there haven’t been many like it since. The report raised some of the most profound moral questions splitting Pakistan at the seams, questions that haunt us today. Justice Munir found that, while the ulema were adamant as to […]
Source: The News on Sunday By I A Rehman Forty years ago Zulfikar Ali Bhutto claimed credit for solving the 90-year-old problem relating to the status of the Ahmadiya community. […]