Express.com.pk January 30, 2013 Lahore daily newspaper Express has reported on the front page that Maulana Tahir ul Qadri welfare file has been closed. as of 5th December 2012, a copy of the letter sent to Abdul Shakoor (also known as Tahir Qadri) from City of Toronto, employment social services […]
Source: The Ottawa Citizen BY FRED LITWIN AND SALIM MANSUR, OTTAWA We are daily inundated with news of horrors from the Arab-Muslim world to the extent that for many in […]
Peter Worthington, The Toronto Sun Moderate Muslims show courage speaking out against extremists TORONTO – It’s somewhat misleading to compare Farzana Hassan to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the extraordinary woman from Somalia who fled to escape an arranged marriage to a Toronto man, and became an MP in Holland and a […]
PeaceMag Canada celebrates first year of publication PeaceMag Canada is completing its first year of publication this month. The motto of the monthly community magazine is to promote love, peace, tolerance and interfaith harmony. It is distributed free in the Greater Toronto Area, but requires subscription for other Canadian cities […]
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun Jan 22. 2013 A decade of war is now ending,” declared President Barack Obama in his Monday inaugural address. He then looked to his right and paused. For a fleeting moment, I braced for some profound words of wisdom, but alas, was disappointed. Instead of […]
The magnificent Kremlin of Kazan (a Unesco World Heritage) with its orthodox church and mosque, a symbol of coexistence among different religions. Religion promotes peace and harmony. It builds bridges […]
The Toronto Star ALGIERS—Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis. Algerian Prime […]
How a lawyer from Canada became a leading critic of U.S. national security policies The Toronto Star, Published on Tuesday January 15, 2013 Share on twitter Share on facebook Special to the Star/Sidney Lo Jameel Jaffer, a Canadian lawyer, fights for civil rights in the post-9/11 world as the head […]
CBCnews: ‘I think it’s probably just a random incident,’ says organization A welcome sign belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been ripped down the middle in Sydney, but the organization says it’s hoping it was a random act. The group discovered the vandalism of their sign, across from the […]
Toronto-area mullah catapults onto Pakistan’s stage SAEED SHAH and RENATA D’ALIESIO, LAHORE — The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jan. 11 2013, 10:47 PM EST, Last updated Saturday, Jan. 12 2013, 11:15 AM EST An unlikely political saviour for Pakistan, Toronto-area cleric Tahir ul Qadri has descended on his native […]
Source: The Economist. WHO and what is Tahir ul Qadri? And, more importantly, who is behind him? Those are the questions now racing through political Pakistan, with no firm answers. The religious cleric, previously a minor figure politically, has been living in Canada since 2006, where he acquired Canadian citizenship. Since he arrived […]
Source: The National Post In a January 3 news item, the National Post profiled a Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) report released under the Access to Information Act. The report […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Kamila Hinkson and Jessica McDiarmid Blake Henstridge had finished one dinner at the Scott Mission on Christmas morning and was outside on Spadina Ave., chatting, when volunteers from Humanity First arrived to hand out pizza and drinks. “Cheese pizza, that’s awesome,” said Henstridge, who arrived in […]
Maple, Ontario, Canada: Like so many interfaith events in the past, the Canadian Ahmadi Women are organizing yet another event to enhance and enrich the world peace and harmony. […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Dow Marmur Every denomination of every religion I know insists that it practises the most authentic version of the teachings of its founders. But unlike fundamentalists, liberals are less likely to claim that others always get it wrong. The Ahmadiyya sect of Islam is of […]
Dr Abdus Salam, Muslim world’s first Nobel laureate in physics 1979, passed away November 21, 1996. In order to pay tribute to this giant of 20th century scientists, Prof Dr John Moffat and Zakaria Virk paid tribute on November 21, 2012, with program host Atif Mir. Prof Moffat did his […]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur, The Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1306099–marmur-humanity-first-shows-way-to-interfaith-co-operation Every denomination of every religion I know insists that it practices the most authentic version of the teachings of its founders. But unlike fundamentalists, liberals are less likely to claim that others always get it wrong. The Ahmadiyya sect of Islam is […]
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/12/20/thumbs-up-for-niqab-ruling Dr Farzana Hasan, The Toronto Sun The niqab is in the news yet again. In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has, in effect, ruled against the wearing of the niqab when testifying in most cases, citing the rights of the accused to receive as fair a […]
Niqab in court OK in some cases: Supreme Court CTV News: In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a woman can wear a religious veil […]