Source.The Financialist. In July, six months after Greece elected a left-wing, anti-austerity government, the country came perilously close to leaving the euro. So it’s easy to understand why markets are nervous at the prospect of Portugal, a poster child for European austerity, replacing its reform-friendly, center-right government with a left-wing, […]
SYDNEY — It’s not every day a reverend, a rabbi and an imam get together in a church basement to discuss the extreme elements within their religions. Source: capebretonpost.com But that’s […]
Source: swlondoner.co.uk south London Muslim youth leader has criticised the British press for not giving enough airtime to moderate Muslims countering the message of ISIS. Following the attacks in Paris last […]
The emphatic challenge from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is that not even one passage from the Quran or even one account in the life of the Prophet inculcated hatred or […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ben Wood; Labour Party Activist It is increasingly likely that parliament will vote in the coming weeks to give Cameron a mandate for intervention in Syria – if they choose to, MPs will be giving an extraordinary mandate to a man that fails to see the […]
Bigotry veiled as liberation Source: Middle East Eye By Adam Walker Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of face veils in public. The ruling has since sparked […]
Colonialism, interventions, the war on terror: the West’s Realpolitik has failed. We have to fundamentally change our relationship with the Muslim world. Von Bernd Ulrich 24. November 2015 The West is in mourning and despair over the deaths in Paris and it shows it. This honours the West, this honours […]
A woman wearing a niqab, a garment also banned under new rules in Ticino. Photo: Antoine Taveneaux MPs in Swiss canton of Ticino back burqa ban Published: 24 Nov 2015 09:36 GMT+01:00 Wearing a burqa in public in the Swiss canton of Ticino will be an offence punishable by a […]
Huff Post: In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, we’d all be wise to listen to the 5th Khalifa of theAhmadiyya Muslims Community who has repeatedly been giving viable solutions to remove the poison of ISIS while exhorting Muslims to be true to the faith they follow. He condemned the […]
Wanted suspected terrorist Salah Abdeslam and Hasna Ait Boulahacen, who died on in Wednesday’s terror raid. Photo: Police nationale/AFP The Paris jihadists who had little time for Islam Published: 20 Nov 2015 16:56 GMT+01:00 Some of the Islamist terrorists who were involved in last week’s Paris attacks were hardly […]
Source NY Times ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets on patrol near the Syrian border on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West. More
Source: The Local High court upholds ‘hate speech’ conviction Switzerland’s highest court on Monday upheld the conviction of a former Swiss People’s Party (SVP) politician of racial discrimination for a […]
TERRORISM WATCHLIST New intel leads to more suspected jihadist cases NOV 22, 2015 – 13:15 The Swiss federal prosecutor is receiving more tips of suspected jihadis (Keystone) The office of the Swiss attorney general says it has opened nearly a dozen new investigations into potential adherents of jihadist groups over the […]
Source: ET Man pushes Muslim woman into oncoming underground train in London. PHOTO: TELEGRAPH A man is being held on charges of attempted murder after he pushed a Muslim woman into the path of an oncoming London Underground train. CCTV footage shows the man standing behind the woman before pushing […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tooting Condemns the Paris terror attack and similar in Bamako, the event in Tooting Leisure Centre Hall which was themed “Peace” had been organised to share the […]
Source: yourlocalguardian.co.uk Hundreds of women have joined together at the Baitul Futuh Mosque to discuss the aim to “nurture today, protect tomorrow”. More than 300 people attended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women […]
The Independent: Isis has sharpened many people’s sense of paranoia towards Islam. The majority of Muslims have a peaceful reading of the Koran, but as Isis commits more and more atrocities, the argument that the Koran equally invites a violent interpretation of its teachings has begun to gain ground. A […]
Authorities argued in part that since the Church of Scientology had registered its name as a US trademark, it cannot call itself a religious organisation The church slammed the court decision and pledged to appeal to Russia’s supreme court. Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features AFP in Moscow Monday 23 November 2015 […]
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on November 22, 2015 A range of new restrictions against the movement of refugees and migrants from Greece through the Western Balkans and further northwards is increasingly untenable, the UN refugee agency, the International Organisation for Migration and the UN children’s fund said […]
Source: The Huffington post By: Atif Rashid Freelance writer, community events organiser, speaker on religious platforms and aspiring journalist. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, we’d all be wise […]