by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Muslims in Switzerland face discrimination, while the country allows legislative gaps on racism to remain open, an Amnesty International report has claimed. The report, entitled Choice […]
Forum 18, Oslo, Norway The enforced closure of the Ahmadi Muslim community in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty leaves the community unable to worship legally anywhere in the country, community members lamented to Forum 18 News Service. Their place of worship was closed amid a continuing official campaign against religious communities […]
Dawn.com KARACHI, April 18: Secularism is not against religion; it is the message of humanity. This was the gist of the speeches delivered by eminent speakers at the launch of the Pakistan chapter of the Forum of Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 at the Karachi Press […]
Muslims in the Netherlands face discrimination, particularly when it comes to education and the labour market, according to Amnesty International. In a new report released today, Amnesty highlights the proposed banning of the Islamic headscarf. The organisation says a general ban would go too far. Also a Dutch Catholic school’s […]
AFP: LONDON: European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and employment, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday. In a report focusing on […]
LankaWeb Another objection that is raised concerns the prayers. Why don’t Ahmadi Muslims pray behind a non-Ahmadi Imam? They are purposely creating division in Islam and do not want to be with other Muslims? This is a very sad affair, but we need to look to the history and we see that […]
Jakarta Post, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has taken a different viewpoint from his superior regarding an attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Friday. Nasaruddin was quoted by Antara news agency as saying that the police should take the incident in the Singaparna district seriously, […]
Huff Post A flag football team took a stand against discrimination by donning hijabs in support of their Muslim teammate. Members of the West Broward High School team wore the traditional […]
Russian TV: As Francois Hollande prepares to meet Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential run-off, RT spoke to the spokesperson of the Socialist Party, Benoit Hamon, on the challenges France is […]
The Jakarta Post Ahmadiyah followers in a number of places in West Java are on alert after a rumor circulated claiming that the same group that attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in Singaparna, Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Friday would launch attacks on Ahmadi property in other areas in the province. The […]
Express Tribune: by Pervez Hoodbhoy: Now and then, as though out of sheer boredom, the United States shoots itself in the foot and loses the occasional goodwill it creates with […]
Lankaweb An objection that is raised is that why Ahmadi Muslims do not go for Hajj? Instead they go to their holy place in Qadian (the birth-place of their Founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Punjab, India)? Hajj is a pillar of Islam which they disrespect and they show more love for […]
Rights group Amnesty International demanded on Wednesday that Indonesian authorities drop blasphemy charges against Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader displaced from his village in East Java’s Madura Island, who is […]
Pakteahouse: by Aziz Bilal: Remembering Qadir & Qudoos It would not be inappropriate to commemorate the sacrifices that the Ahmadiyya community has offered in its commitment for peace and promoting […]
Pakteahouse; By Ayesha Noor: On March 30th, 43-year-old Master Abdul Qudoos lost the battle of his life in Rabwah, Pakistan. A relatively young man, he did not die of a heart attack, nor did he die of a fatal accident, neither […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
Source: scotsman.com RIGHT-wing fanatic Anders Breivik sees himself as a 21st- century crusader battling against Islam in Europe. A psychiatric assessment found him to be psychotic and suffering from paranoid […]
by Isabelle Eichenberger, swissinfo.ch The new president of the Federal Commission against Racism says action is more important than statistical data in combating rights abuses. Martine Brunschwig Graf, a former […]
The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a […]
by Stefania Summermatter in Fribourg, swissinfo.ch The Toulouse killings have reignited the debate on integration of Muslims in Europe. The issue is also being tackled by contemporary film-makers. A dagger-toting, double-crossing villain with a moustache, a Middle-Eastern accent and an evil look in his eye: whether in literature or in […]