Sanctions against Iran: ‘Hara-kiri’ by the Europeans?
Russian TV: Iran has halted oil sales to Greece in response to the EU sanctions coming into force in July. The country’s Press-TV reports Tehran also cut supplies to Spain […]
Muslims as Ordinary People: What’s the Angle?
Huff Post When I was growing up in London in the 60s, 70s and 80s, my perception of Muslims was that we were really boring people — we just prayed a lot, didn’t drink, didn’t go to parties (well, we didn’t get invited to the really good parties), and we weren’t […]
Assalamu Alaikum: Brutal Concept of Apostasy and Blasphemy in Pakistan
Calgary Ahmadiyya Muslim Examiner: Deeba Chaudry: As Muslim, when one say “Assalamu Alaikum” means “May peace and blessings of God be upon you.” Can one imagine that Ahmadi Muslims in […]
Two decades from war, a new fight to save Bosnia
(Reuters) – The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia’s war needs a beginning to mark, then it’s April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That’s […]
OIC pledges support for Turkish Cypriots
By JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE & P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation has welcomed a request by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to open its permanent representative […]
A society that persecutes Christ is heading for terrible trouble
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
Christians and Jews Rediscover Interracial Haven
INDIANAPOLIS — After the summons to worship, the Lord’s Prayer and the first hymn of the morning, the pastor of the South Calvary Missionary Baptist Churchhere asked the visitors to stand. […]
Students don hijabs in show of solidarity
Source: The Commercial Appeal Every Hijabi has a story. Hajar Sakhi, a Rhodes College student from Nashville, was working at a fast-food restaurant in high school. One day, a customer looked at her wearing a uniform visor over her headscarf and started laughing. He left without ordering. “My manager said, […]
Predictions on Pakistan: Country break up? Confrontation with US: Grim Future
Pakistan continues to slide down on both domestic and international front. Domestically the fight between state institutions, the tensions between the predominant Punabi establishment and the smaller ethnically oriented provinces […]
MLK, Trayvon and Jesus
Huff Post April 4 is the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week is Holy Week. So what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? No, this question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — the answer is […]
Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni Divide Growing
Source: Huffington Post Author: Hamza Hendawi BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even […]
International demand for Judicial Inquiry into the Custodial Death of Mr. Abdul Qudoos, by Police in Punjab
In his letter to Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan in Islamabad, Mr. William Gomes asks the Pakistani President to conduct a judicial inquiry into the illegal detention and […]
One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and […]
Asian Human Rights Commission – Urgent Appeals Programme for Ahmadi Teacher
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-057-2012 PAKISTAN: In a hate campaign against the Ahmadis the police tortured to death an innocent school teacher ISSUES: Torture; ill-treatment; arbitrary arrest; religious minority groups; impunity; […]
A murder most most foul: Saleem Shahzad, Master Abdul Qudoos, Who is next?
Pakteahouse: Usman Ahmad: Prior to anything else being said, let it be clearly stated that the recent murder of Master Abdul Qudoos at the hands of the police is not […]
Kashmir’s Hindus have survived ordeal
Source: The pioneer Twenty three years after they were last driven out of their homeland, the Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir have survived the nightmare and are now even more emboldened to return to the State of their origin. They cannot remain refugees in their own country After bearing the […]
Mullah or Pakistan: Ludhianvi vs. Police and the Winner is?
Dawn.com: When in 2009 the Taliban had taken over the districts of Buner, Shangla and Lower Dir, they had been some 60 miles away from Islamabad. But that had been […]
Far-right groups rally in Denmark to unite ‘anti-Islamic alliance’
Globalpost.com: LONDON, UK – Far-right groups from across Europe are holding a rally in Denmark in a bid to set up “an anti-Islamic alliance” across the continent. A police spokesman told […]
Muslim woman beaten to death in California with note on body that says go home
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your […]
We Are All A Part Of It – Responding To Hate
Source: Huff Post It has been an eventful couple of weeks to say the least. The national and international headlines were full of soul crushing events both at home and abroad. Just to mention a few: An American soldier named Robert Bales walked into the midst of an Afghan community […]