May 11, 2016 – A Bulgarian university professor who has translated the Holy Quran into Bulgarian said the translation helped him and some others in his country to find the right path and convert to Islam. AhlulBayt News Agency – A Bulgarian university professor who has translated the Holy Quran […]
Firefighters stand in the burned-out shell of the inflatable tent. Photo: DPA Published: 10 May 2016 www.thelocal.de A large temporary refugee home in western Germany was completely burned down on Monday night, but a prompt evacuation allowed all the inhabitants to escape unharmed. “We can be thankful that despite the large […]
NO STATUS see video report: http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42046214 EMBED CODE APR 4, 2016 – 15:45 Sometimes asylum seekers go underground, as they have no hope of getting official refugee status. They’re known as “sans papiers” (without papers). (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Asylum is only granted to those who face persecution or imprisonment in their country […]
Source: Swiss Info channel By Marta Dominguez Diaz What does London’s election of Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, and son of Pakistani migrants, as mayor mean for Europe amidst the prevailing […]
May 10,2016 – THE JORDAN TIMES – HAROLD JAMES Democracy everywhere is facing serious challenges. The United States is gripped by the most bizarre presidential primary campaign in living memory, with populist outsiders threatening to topple established party machines. Brazil is paralysed by constitutional crisis. Europeans trace their malaise to […]
May 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD There is a witch hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain’s opposition party leader Jeremy Corbyn is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, who are, […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says world should view Islam through “lens of justice, rather than lens of prejudice” On 9 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at a special reception held in […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley PARIS — France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and its most troubled. A wave of anti-Semitic violence in recent […]
Source: RNS By Elizabeth Bryant PARIS (RNS) On a sunny spring morning, an 18-year-old college student wrapped a scarf around her head to feel what it would be like to […]
Source: Time By Mark Leftly / London Sadiq Khan, 45, was declared the new mayor of London in the early hours of Saturday, becoming the most powerful Muslim politician in Europe. A Transport Minister in the Labour government of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Khan came under severe attack during the […]
Source: BBC Sadiq Khan has rejected US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s offer to make the new London mayor an “exception” to a ban on Muslims travelling to the US. “This […]
Source: BBC A man who killed a commuter and injured three others in a knife attack at a railway station near Munich suffered from psychological problems and drug addiction, state […]
Charity wants Muslims to donate money to victims of the Syrian Civil War. England cricketer Moeen Ali supports the advertising campaign. Source: Khalij Times London’s iconic red buses and public […]
By Reuters – May 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems are seen during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia rolled out an air defence missile system of the kind used to […]
May 09,2016 – Jordan Times – Yanis Varoufakis The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would […]
Source: Guardian London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said he will visit the US before this year’s presidential elections “in case Donald Trump wins”, in a reference to the presumptive […]
Source: Reuters BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA | BY GORDANA KATANA AND MAJA ZUVELA Thousands of Muslims flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb region on Saturday for the reopening of a historic mosque destroyed during wartime, a ceremony seen as encouraging religious tolerance among deeply divided communities. Twenty years after the […]
Source: Associated Press By SHAWN POGATCHNIK DUBLIN (AP) — London’s newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public […]
Source: BBC An NHS trust has been fined £180,000 after a sexual health centre leaked the details of almost 800 patients who had attended HIV clinics. The 56 Dean Street […]
Source: Dawn When news broke last night that Sadiq Khan has been elected London’s first Muslim mayor, celebrations began the world over — most notably in Pakistan, where Sadiq Khan’s […]