Migrant crisis needs generosity, not fear — Angelina Jolie Pitt
By AFP – May 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 16, shows UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie Pitt greeting (centre) refugees and migrants during her […]
Resentment over Sykes-Picot deal still drives Turkey foreign policy
By AFP – May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Resentment over the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France that carved up the Middle East from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire remains, 100 years later, a major factor in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign policy. The May […]
The hidden world of the Knights Templar
Source: BBC By Amanda Ruggeri It was rush hour on a weekday and I was weaving my way down the Strand, one of central London’s most famous thoroughfares. The street […]
Video: Inside Story – Is Sadiq Khan the face of multicultural Britain?
Source: Aljazeera Voters in London have made history by electing the Labour party’s Sadiq Khan as their mayor, giving him the largest political mandate in British history with more than […]
Refugee Wrangling: Merkel’s Deal with Turkey in Danger of Collapse
REUTERS Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan The conflict between Europe and Ankara over visa freedoms for Turkish citizens is escalating and Chancellor Merkel’s refugee deal is in danger of collapse. Neither side is willing to back down. By SPIEGEL Staff On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was standing on […]
Reception Held To Mark Inauguration Of Mahmood Mosque In Malmo, Sweden
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivers keynote address. On 14 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 to mark the inauguration of the Mahmood Mosque (Mosque of the Praiseworthy) […]
US SECRET SERVICE UNCOVERS: THE WEST WANTED AN ISLAMIC TERROR STATE
BY DR. JUERGEN TODENHOEFER Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria“ would […]
Website brings together Germans and migrants to meet and integrate
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN AFP Photo During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany every day, but the 36-year-old startup consultant from Berlin hadn’t met a single one of them. “It was all over […]
Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin’s deportation of Muslim Tatars
Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song 1944, performs during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 final in Stockholm. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP Photo May 15, 2016 KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.” […]
Pianist of Yarmouk plays to Germans’ hearts
Refugee Aeham Al Ahmad, also known as “the pianist of Yarmouk” performs during a rehearsal, prior to a concert at Berlin’s Heimathafen concert hall on May 12, 2016. John MacDougall/AFP Pianist of Yarmouk plays to Germans’ hearts May 15, 2016 Updated: May 15, 2016 06:23 PM Berlin // A year […]
What the rest of Europe thinks about Londoners picking a Muslim mayor
theguardian: by Carmen Fishwick — People living outside the UK give their views on Sadiq Khan’s win and whether a Muslim would be elected where they live Sadiq Khan. Across the UK there are hundreds of Muslim councillors, and the House of Commons has 13 Muslim MPs. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA […]
Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police
Firemen extinguishing a fire at a former hotel under reconstruction to become a home for asylum seekers in February in Bautzen, Eastern Germany. Photo: AFP Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police Published: 14 May 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 German authorities on Saturday reported an increase in the number of […]
First batch of asylum seekers from Italy arrive IN sWITZERLAND
REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME MAY 13, 2016 – 15:32 The group is made up of asylum seekers who reached Italy via the Mediterranean (Keystone) A group of 10 asylum seekers from Italy has arrived in Switzerland under the European Union’s refugee relocation programme. They are part of a pilot group of 30 […]
Europe has a troublingly short memory over Serbia’s Aleksander Vucic
Voices The Serbian Prime Ministser is saying all the right things to ease his country into the EU. But Vucic, who attended the Srebrenica memorial service last year, once said, “for every Serb killed, we will kill 100 Muslims” Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 14 May 2016 31 comments Ask me […]
HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY INAUGURATES NEW MOSQUE IN SWEDEN
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community inaugurates Mahmood Mosque in Malmo. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 13 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. It […]
EU mission ‘failing’ to disrupt people-smuggling from Libya
Source: BBC he EU naval mission to tackle people smuggling in the central Mediterranean is failing to achieve its aims, a British parliamentary committee says. In a report, the House […]
Netherlands sees sharp increase in people choosing euthanasia due to ‘mental health problems’
Source: Telegraph By Senay Boztas, amsterdam The Netherlands has seen a sharp increase in the number of people choosing to end their own lives due to mental health problems such as trauma […]
Sadiq Khan, London’s Muslim Mayor, Calls Trump ‘Ignorant About Islam’
Source: The New York Times By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE LONDON — The new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said on Wednesday that his election in the face of a […]
“If We Want Peace We Should Value And Prioritise Giving Rights To Other People”– Head Of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes remarks during interview with Sydsvenskan newspaper in Sweden. On 11 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by the Sydsvenskan newspaper at the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. Upon being […]
Germany: First Muslim Woman elected Speaker of state parliament
Source: Independent The first Muslim woman has been elected as the speaker of a state parliament in Germany in what she hailed as a “historic” step for the country. Muhterem […]