Maltese Muslim Runs for EU Parliament
OnIslam & Newspapers Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00 CAIRO – A leading Maltese politician and convert to Islam has expressed his intentions to run for a seat in the European […]
British Muslim who told his family he was studying abroad but joined Al-Qaeda group fighting in Syria is killed in the war-torn country
Ifthekar Jaman left his home in Portsmouth to fight for Al Qaeda in Syria Details have not revealed exactly how the 23-year-old died Jaman boasted on BBC’s Newsnight he was […]
Switzerland: SKILLS NEEDED: Foreigners could need language passport
December 15, 2013 – 20:01 Foreigners seeking long-term residency in Switzerland could be issued with a so-called language passport as part of the approval process if new legislation on integration […]
An open letter to His Excellency Prime Minister of Turkey
December 14, 2013 Your Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey Dear Mr. Erdogan, I am a Pakistani-American Muslim, a great admirer of the founding and evolution of this […]
British Man arrested in Pakistan for reading Qur'an
Katharine Houreld/ REUTERS: saultstar.com: LAHORE – A 72-year-old British doctor is in prison in Pakistan for “posing as a Muslim”, charges that reveal an escalating ideological fight that often spills over into violence. Masood […]
British Man arrested in Pakistan for reading Qur’an
Katharine Houreld/ REUTERS: saultstar.com: LAHORE – A 72-year-old British doctor is in prison in Pakistan for “posing as a Muslim”, charges that reveal an escalating ideological fight that often spills over into violence. Masood […]
Controversial Theologian Hans Küng: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'
by Markus Grill, Spiegel.de Hans Küng fought his whole life for the reforms being weighed by the Vatican today. In a SPIEGEL interview, the elderly Swiss theologian discusses Pope Francis’ […]
Controversial Theologian Hans Küng: ‘I Don’t Cling to This Life’
by Markus Grill, Spiegel.de Hans Küng fought his whole life for the reforms being weighed by the Vatican today. In a SPIEGEL interview, the elderly Swiss theologian discusses Pope Francis’ […]
Leipzig people visit the Berlin Ahmadiyya Community
By Nina May LVZ.ONLINE Berlin / Leipzig. The shoe shelves in the lobby of the Khadija Mosque in Berlin’s Heiner village are well filled this Saturday for a delegation of […]
French panel: Let Muslims wear head scarves in school
PARIS: France should reverse decades of strict secularism to integrate its immigrant population better, allowing Muslims to wear head scarves in schools and promoting Arabic teaching, according to an iconoclastic […]
Universities UK withdraws advice on gender segregation in lectures Body that represents higher education institutions says it is reviewing guidance after criticism from PM
Rajeev Syal and Matthew Weaver The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 Rajeev Syal and Matthew Weaver The body that represents Britain’s universities has withdrawn guidance on the gender segregation of […]
Australian meat: “As Halal as it gets”
By: Mohammed Alshoaiby Source: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/ At Al-Fursan butcher shop on Riyadh’s busy Dhabbab Street, Chris sliced luscious steaks off a fresh cut of Australian Angus sirloin, promising with sure confidence […]
When you travel, better learn the language … (true story!)
A British man, who recently traveled to Germany, got the shock of his life when he looked at a clock and was confronted with the word: DIE. In fact he got such a shock that he needed medical treatment. When questioned in detail what happened he could be put ‘at […]
With so many mosques being constructed in Europe many Imams find jobs …
In one small town it so happened that a Mosque was constructed just near a church (No, the story is NOT from Zurich, where the first mosque in Switzerland is just opposite a church!) and consequently a Imam became a neighbor of a priest. The relationship did not develop exactly […]
Two men arrested for anti-Semitic tweets after Spurs v West Ham match
Source: BBC Two men have been arrested for posting anti-Semitic tweets following Tottenham Hotspur’s match with West Ham. A 24-year-old man from Croydon and a 22-year-old man from Wiltshire posted the comments about Hitler and the gas chambers after the Premier League match on 6 October. Both men were arrested […]
No to Gays Marriage
Source: The NY Times: SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s highest court on Thursday struck down a landmark law that had begun allowing the country’s firstsame-sex marriages. More:
Because of Religious Belief When State Orders to Kill you what says the Sharia? Ahmadiyya View Point Sought!
By : Zubair Khan The question mentioned in the title of the news as well few other interesting questions were aired after Mr Luqman Majoka, who studied Oriental and Islamic studies, belonging to Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany, delivered his speech in Bashier Mosque Bensheim. On the eve of inter-religious dialogue series organised by AMJ Germany he was speaking to very lively German […]
MIGRANT-FRIENDLY HEALTHCARE ; Promoting cultural diversity in Swiss hospitals
by Abdelhafidh Abdeleli, swissinfo.ch December 11, 2013 – 17:00 Three years after the launch of of the government’s Migrant Friendly Hospitals project, questions have been raised about how health institutions […]
Politics | Campaign launched against ‘witch-hunt’ of Muslim students by ‘Student Rights’ group
A student campaign has been launched against ‘Student Rights,’ a UK-based group that has attracted criticism for its failure to speak up for Muslim students’ rights as well as controversy over its funding and associations. Students have launched a campaign against the pressure group ‘Student Rights’, which appears to have […]
Politics | Campaign launched against ‘witch-hunt’ of Muslim students by ‘Student Rights’ group
A student campaign has been launched against ‘Student Rights,’ a UK-based group that has attracted criticism for its failure to speak up for Muslim students’ rights as well as controversy over its funding and associations. Students have launched a campaign against the pressure group ‘Student Rights’, which appears to have […]