UK Jalsa opens with over 35,000 delegates
on August 22, 2015 …as MTA gives live broadcast to the world in 16 languages By Ishola Balogun in London As the 2015 convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat opens today at the Jalsa Ground, Oakland Farm, otherwise known as Hadeeqatul Madhi, Hampshire, London, the organisation’s television studio is […]
Thousands of Muslims Are Gathering in Hampshire This Weekend
Meliha Hayat Become a fan Freelance Writer and Religious Correspondant This weekend a makeshift city will rise from the farmlands of Hampshire as more than 30,000 Muslims from across the world will gather and raise their nations flags united under a caliph to reaffirm their faith in Islam. I […]
Refugee Chaos in Macedonia: ‘Life-Threateningly Dangerous for Women and Children’
By Raniah Salloum in Gevgelija, Macedonia AP A dangerous bottleneck has formed in the Macedonian border town of Gevgelija, an important hub for refugees traveling to Western Europe. Those trying to reach the trains here face extreme heat, dangerous crowds and police bullying. It’s Monday, earlier this week, and what […]
“Women Are Just As Gifted in Science as Men”
In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize for medicine recipients Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and May-Britt Moser discuss the challenges women face in the male-dominated world of science and how they broke through the glass ceiling. It’s a Wednesday afternoon mid-summer in Trondheim, Norway. May-Britt Moser, 52, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 72, have spent […]
EU states favouring Christian migrants from Middle East
Syrian refugee arrives in Germany (Photo: iom.int) By ANDREW RETTMAN BRUSSELS, TODAY, 09:29 EU member states with a strong Roman Catholic heritage are showing a preference for taking in Christian migrants, despite their obligations under EU law. The Slovakian government was the latest to issue a statement. Displaced people fleeing […]
Why I Left America to Train in Jihad Under an Islamic Caliphate
Why I Left America to Train in Jihad Under an Islamic Caliphate Posted: 08/20/2015 Kashif N. Chaudhry Become a fanPhysician, writer and human rights activist I am an American. I have a full-time job in one of Greater Boston’s renowned institutions as a medical professional. Yet, I just travelled out […]
Tens of Thousands of Muslims to Converge on UK for Islamic Conference – Ministers to praise work of London-based Caliph
Imams from more than 50 countries will be present together with 30,000 delegates from far afield as South Asia, New Zealand, North America, Africa and many countries in the EU to reaffirm Islam’s rejection of fanaticisms. Tight security will be in place for the event that will challenge head on […]
Seventeen hurt in clashes at refugee shelter in Germany
By REUTERS PUBLISHED: , 20 August 2015 BERLIN, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Some 11 refugees and six police officers were hurt on Wednesday night during a fight among asylum seekers at a shelter in the town of Suhl in the eastern state of Thuringia, police said. A group of about […]
Fighting Sectarianism in Islam – Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
Fighting Sectarianism in Islam By Sayeeda Warsi Aug 12 2015 I am a proud Muslim. I am patriotically British – indeed, one who is at her proudest when standing here in a part British-built mosque. Despite the oft asked unanswerable question as to which I am first – whether I […]
Account of Ibrahim Noonan – an Irish convert to Islam
Account Of Ibrahim Noonan ‘I was born in a staunch Roman Catholic Family, a family who had priests and Missionary Nuns’ My Christian name was Michael Peter Dennis Noonan, I […]
Amnesty says Switzerland should accept more refugees
ASYLUM POLITICS Amnesty says Switzerland should accept more refugees AUG 12, 2015 – 17:24 The UN says nearly a quarter million refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean so far this year (Keystone) The human rights organisation Amnesty International has submitted a petition to the federal government asking that it […]
War begets refugees
War begets refugees Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. […]
Canadian Company To Build 20km High elevator
Canadian company’s plans to build giant lift that is 20km high – and takes astronauts straight into the stratosphere Toronto independent.co.uk/science A Canadian company has designed a 20km-high tower that would carry astronauts up into space in a giant lift. The plans for a “space elevator” have been approved by […]
Kos, the new Lampedusa
EMRE GÖNEN Published A dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees approaches a beach on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. The Syrian refugee crisis is spreading not just among its neighbors but toward Europe, especially Greece. Therefore, a global […]
Syrians risk lives to reach Europe ‘for their children’
By AFP – Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants queue during a food distribution organised by the local organisation ‘Kos solidarity’ outside the abandoned Captain Elias Hotel, where hundreds of migrants have found temporary shelter, on Monday (AFP photo) KOS, Greece — Five nights ago, Nada and her children braved […]
ISLAMIC STATE: Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq Seumas Milne The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/r20150811/r20110914/abg.js// < ![CDATA[ // The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 […]
UN intern living in tent in Geneva resigns
PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT UN intern living in tent in Geneva resigns By Simon Bradley AUG 12, 2015 – 14:17 Critics say only rich graduates can afford to do internships at the United Nations in Geneva (Reuters) An unpaid United Nations intern who was forced to live in a tent in Geneva […]
Returning foreign fighters: Criminalization or reintegration?
By: Charles Lister BROOKING INSTITUTE Over the past several years, thousands of foreign fighters have traveled to Syria and Iraq on a scale unprecedented in modern history. While most foreign fighters remain engaged in combat, some have begun to return, posing a real, if sometimes exaggerated, security threat to home […]