Source: Dawn British forces on Sunday handed over formal control of their last base in Afghanistan to Afghan troops, ending combat operations in the country after 13 years which cost hundreds of lives. The Union Jack was lowered at Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand, while the Stars […]
On Thursday 16th of October 2014 hundreds of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia welcomed their newly appointed Amir (National President) and missionary in-charge, Imam Inam-ul-Haq Kauser, at ‘Bait-ul-Huda’ […]
Epigraph: An apple cannot be a rock and a monkey at the same time. Likewise, a man or a dove cannot be God, simultaneously. Concept of God of Islam and […]
By Asif Arif Huff Post: The day throughout Pakistan should celebrate with pride and joy the 88th anniversary of the first Muslim Nobel prize in physics, how not to write a […]
Guardian: From the 9th to the 19th centuries, scholars and scribes used Arabic as a lingua franca to debate scientific ideas. Arabic-speaking scholars translated classical Greek, Persian and even Sanskrit […]
Haaretz: Denmark’s national health authority does not think non-medical circumcision is risky enough to justify a ban on it, the body’s director said in parliament. The Danish Health and Medicines […]
theage.com.au: There are two stories, both compelling narratives, competing for attention here in the Middle East. The first is tactical and simple. It revolves around the dominance of airpower and the slowing of the advance of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. So far, the 1999 air campaign against Slobodan […]
Source: The Guardian In a world first, Australian surgeons have successfully transplanted “dead” hearts into patients at Sydney’s St Vincent’s hospital. The procedure, using hearts that had stopped beating, has been described as a “paradigm shift” that will herald a major increase in the pool of hearts available for transplantation. […]
Daily Times: UNITED NATIONS: The increasing use of armed drones within domestic law enforcement risks depersonalizing the use of force and infringing upon the rights of individual citizens, a United […]
Source: CNN CNN) — It was described as a “dramatic shift” and a “bombshell.” One writer dubbed it a “stunning change.” Even the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBT advocacy organization, announced a “seismic shift in Rome.” So it was all the more disheartening that the Catholic Church’s Synod of Bishops […]
Source: Review of Religions, September 2014 Collected from the writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) The founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. In 1891, he […]
independent.co.uk: A 17-year-old Australian boy has appeared in an Isis propaganda video, where he warns the UK and US that militants will keep fighting until “the black flag” is flying over Buckingham Palace. The video is believed to show Abdullah Elmir, who went missing from his home in Sydney at […]
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed […]
Global Post: MELBOURNE, Australia — Shamaila Saeed sat in a circle with a dozen women and teenage girls, discussing passages from the Quran. It was a typical afternoon in the women’s section of the IEWAD mosque and community center in Narre Warren, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The tranquil setting […]
abc.net: by Emma Griffiths — PHOTO Senate President Stephen Parry faced a grilling during a committee hearing this morning. A move to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate enclosed public gallery at Parliament House has been reversed. Earlier this month, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop […]
Russia Today: A woman in niqab, a traditional Muslim veil, was asked to leave the opera in Paris after the cast said they wouldn’t perform if a solution wasn’t found. […]
Source: BBC Critics of the rule said women wearing niqabs or burkas were not an additional security threat Related Stories Australia PM urges burka ban rethink Australia’s home-grown terror threat […]
By Binoy Kampmark Global Research, October 19, 2014 This business has been too focused on growth and cared more about the loan outcome than the customer outcome. Andy Haste, Wonga Chairman, The Guardian, Oct 16, 2014. Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan […]
In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, […]
Full text of the bishops’ closing message We, Synod Fathers, gathered in Rome together with Pope Francis in the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, greet all families […]