Lord Ahmad challenged on Asia Bibi response
Fri 23 Nov 2018 By Cara Bentley As a report is launched about religious freedom around the world, three members of parliament have challenge Lord Tariq Ahmad on the […]
Seven wonders of Switzerland – Switzerland: home to one of Europe’s oldest monasteries
Nov 22, 2018 In the east of Switzerland, in Val Müstair, is one of the oldest churches in Europe. Here, in the Middle Ages, Charlemagne was venerated as a saint. […]
Education exchange. What’s the secret to Finnish school success?
By Isobel Leybold-Johnson in Bern This content was published on November 20, 2018 At a Swiss event, a top Finnish education official explains why the country’s schools are so good – and what the Finns could learn from Switzerland. Anita Lehikoinen, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education […]
UAE pardons British academic sentenced to life for spying
Reuters International Nov 26, 2018 – 10:06 By Stanley Carvalho ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned a British academic jailed for life on spying […]
Forgiveness and Forbearance
Hazrat Aisha, Allah be pleased with her, narrates that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, never struck anyone with his hands, neither a servant nor […]
Switzerland: Swiss people vote to defend human rights in referendum
25 November 2018, Responding to the emphatic referendum defeat of the so-called ‘initiative for self-determination’, a proposal to put Swiss law above international law, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo […]
Book Review: Looking at Muslims through a ‘Journey into Europe’
Book review by Dunia El-Zobaidi is an Arab Weekly correspondent in London. Book by Akbar Ahmed, who is Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and former Pakistani […]
After Catholic Church sex abuse cover-ups, we in the pews must no longer simply pray & pay
Source: USA Today By Tim Roemer Disappointed and angered once again by the Catholic Church, we lay people must act to protect our faith. I have done a lifetime of public speaking, in the chambers of Congress in Washington and in a foreign country as a diplomat. But that was […]
Turkey, Saudi leaders could meet for first time since Khashoggi murder
By AFP – Nov 23,2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) ANKARA […]
Is big pharma ignoring the poor?
Pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit. Is that why diseases that kill thousands of people every year have been ignored – even though the cures may already exist? Health […]
Hillary Clinton’s chilling pragmatism gives the far right a free pass
Nesrine Malik Calling on Europe’s leaders to ‘get a handle on migration’ is no counter to populists – it’s more like an endorsement Fri 23 Nov 2018 ‘In her […]
Slough’s muslims feed the homeless – after receiving an award from the mayor
Source: Slough Observer, UK PROUD members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Slough & South Bucks have been presented with a special Service to the Community award by the mayor. The […]
4 Finns held in Malaysia for distributing Christian material
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Video Book Review: The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade. Lesley Hazleton’s new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books. Muhammad’s […]
Words of Wisdom: History of Ismailis in Portugal
by ismailimail Posted on August 16, 2018 …we can trace the story of Ismaili engagement with Portugal back many years – even to the time when Ismailis settled in Portuguese […]
Merkel tells people of Chemnitz – Don’t let haters set the agenda
Reuters International This content was published on November 16, 2018 CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged people to stand up against hatred and reject “lies” about […]
In Bosnia, Entrenched Ethnic Divisions Are a Warning to the World
Source: The New York Times By Andrew Higgins MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina — When a fire breaks out in the Bosnian city of Mostar, Sabit Golos, a veteran firefighter, knows […]
Wait and see. Swiss delay decision on UN migration pact
This content was published on November 21, 2018 The Global Compact for Migration seeks to streamline conditions for an orderly migration across the world. (Keystone) The government has decided it […]
Hijab-wearing lawmaker takes seat in Bosnian Serb parliament
Source: Associated Press BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — For the first time since Bosnia’s ethnic war, a woman who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf has become a lawmaker in the […]
‘Dozens of Syrian migrants reach Cyprus’
By AFP – Nov 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants in orange lifejackets approach the Cypriot coast on a lifeboat on an undisclosed date (File photo courtesy of Kathimerini Cyprus) NICOSIA […]