The United Kingdom has launched its Haj consular delegation to ensure a safe and trouble-free Haj for British pilgrims. A British Embassy official in Riyadh told Arab News that the 15th Haj consular delegation to accompany British pilgrims to Saudi Arabia was launched by Baroness Warsi, senior minister of State, […]
Telegraph: There are 259 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 and 50 of them are organisations. The names of the nominees and who nominated them are kept secret […]
They come seeking refuge, but when asylum seekers cross into the European Union, they often find little compassion. In Greece, they are held in squalid detention camps, while in Italy […]
Guardian: While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur’an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on […]
Guardian: While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur’an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on […]
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. During the first week of his second tour of Australia, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by a journalist representing both the ‘The Standard’ and the […]
By Nicholas Robinson British farmers could be losing out on a major revenue boost from the Muslim celebration of Qurbani next week. A halal operator has told MeatInfo.co.uk that much of the lamb consumed as part of the celebration, which requires the animal to be ritually slaughtered to rules different […]
MICHAEL SEGALOV Wednesday 9 October 2013 The announcement yesterday morning that Tommy Robinson and Kev Carroll, co-founders of the English Defence League, were to leave the group took many by surprise. By removing himself from the far-right movement, Tommy Robinson is changing his tactics, but – as I learned at […]
This Friday, the Nobel committee announces the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. As far as global opinion is concerned, the award is a 16-year-old Pakistani girl’s to lose. […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]
Jihad of Pen: October 9, 2013 by Admin By Qasim Rashid Richard Dawkins controversially asserts that, “it can be plausibly argued that a deeply held belief [in hell] might cause a child more long-lasting mental trauma than the temporary embarrassment of mild physical abuse.” Dawkins then backtracks by adding, “…violent, […]
imperial.ac.uk: Professor Michael Duff FRS, Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics: “I am delighted to hear that Peter Higgs and François Englert have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, which is richly […]
Source: Spiegel International By Birger Menke The archdiocese of Freiburg recently signalled a willingness to allow remarried divorcées to receive communion. While far from revolutionary, the move reflects a desire to change […]
Alislam e-gazette press release: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls for a peaceful Jihad The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa addressed a congregation of more than 4,000 at […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson – the particle key to explaining […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson – the particle key to explaining […]
Oil-rich Qatar invests extensively around the world without a hitch. One of the largest recipients of Qatari money is France, where the Gulf state bankrolls media and construction companies and owns Paris-Saint Germain, now one of the world’s richest soccer clubs. But France is also another example of how efforts […]
A topical film covering the ground-breaking global Muslim-Christian inter-faith initiative, ‘A Common Word’ will premiere during this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas on Monday, 28 October. Professor David Ford OBE, […]
ZURICH — Switzerland’s postal service admitted Saturday it had accidentally sent mail to people who recently died welcoming them to their new homes and wishing them well settling in. The housewarming packages were received by people who had reported their relatives’ deaths and asked for their mail to be forwarded […]