stopthepersecution.org: Stop the Persecution of Ahmadis TO: Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister 30 YEARS OF STATE SPONSORED PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN 30 years ago under […]
Huff Post: Julie Phillips, age 50, and Gemma Parkin, age 18, have been found guilty of a “religiously-aggravated public order offence” after they ripped up pages from the Quran at […]
Guardian: The leadership of the Roman Catholic church faces a fresh grilling by UN human rights observers on Monday as a delegation from the Holy See makes its debut appearance […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
Group to mark ‘ethnic cleansing of Palestine’ on Holland’s WWII memorial day Times of Israel: THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Platform Bewust Moslim group, whose name means “Platform Aware Muslim,” is […]
Source: Balkan Insight The Union for Changes was formally established at a ceremony held on April 30 in Banja Luka, the main city in Republika Srpska. The leading parties in the bloc are the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, the largest opposition party in the mainly Serbian entity, the Party of Democratic […]
Source: Spiegel REUTERS Russian President Vladmir Putin: “Death is horrible, isn’t it?” Some like to idealize Vladimir Putin as the ideological successor to the left-wing Soviet leaders, but that’s sheer nonsense. His speeches offer clear evidence that his points of reference originate in fascism. In order to understand Vladimir Putin, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Christian Easter story mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in this […]
Salon.com: One drizzly evening in early March 2013, as a papal conclave was convening within the Vatican to choose a new pontiff, and all awaited a puff of white smoke […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed in […]
Source: MWN Taroudant, Morocco – Samir Nasri, a French international football player who plays for the English club Manchester City, expressed his concerns over growing racism against Muslims in France, his second home. In an interview with the Telegraph on April 25, Samir Nasri, 26, denounced the rise of racism against Muslims in […]
halesowennews.co.uk: YOUNG Muslims from Halesowen are taking part in an annual 10k run in London this weekend, which hopes to raise more than £300,000 for a dozen charities. Members of the Ahmadiyya […]
Source: Balkan Insight: Photo by: Wikimedia Commons/Silar To work as a journalist today, you need a great deal of courage. In the last twelve months, hundreds of journalists, photographers and camera operators in the world have been killed, injured, kidnapped, threatened or sued. Europe is no exception: worrying patterns are […]
Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Gulen denies corruption probe links Fethullah Gulen: Powerful but reclusive Turkish cleric Profile: Fethullah Gulen’s Hizmet movement Turkey is to start […]
Source: Spiegel There’s nothing you can do about your relatives, but you certainly have a choice when it comes to picking your friends. This sage wisdom also applies to Gerhard Schröder, the former German leader and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He himself can decide whom to embrace and […]
Source: CNN Russia’s seizure of Crimea last month may have unfolded with a lightning quickness, but Vladimir Putin and the West are now engaged in a much slower match of wits on a chessboard stretching across most of eastern Ukraine. Rather than going for checkmate, both sides now seem content […]
Guardian: As part of mammoth celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Norway’s constitution, the government is funding two artists to re-enact a “human zoo”, which will open to the public on […]
Epigraph: Is he, then, who knows that what has been revealed to thee (Muhammad) from thy Lord is the truth, like one who is blind? But only those gifted with […]
loonwatch.com: For years, Cuba’s Muslims—estimated at just a few thousand—have been a bit, well, unorthodox. Most have favored a flexible version of Islam that’s adjusted to years of living in […]
Source: BBC A baby Java mouse-deer – one of the smallest hoofed animals in the world – has been born at a zoo in southern Spain. The newborn deer is […]