Runs, Walks and Rides for Charity
Source: bradfordtimes.ca Lace up your running shoes. The 4th annual Run for Bradford (BWG), organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, will be taking place this Saturday, May 24, at the AMJ […]
Was World War I a religious crusade? An interview with Philip Jenkins
RNS: In the land of religious history, Philip Jenkins towers like a giant. Among the many works written by the distinguished professor of history at Baylor University, his history of […]
EU Elections 2014: Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam, anti-Europe Freedom Party Snubbed in Netherlands
International Business Times: A Dutch preliminary poll has indicated that the far-right, anti-Islam and Eurosceptic Freedom Party of Geert Wilders has seen its support dropping significantly in the European elections. […]
Europe’s own ‘tea party’ risk
Source_ CNN A backlash against austerity, unemployment, immigration and loss of national power to European institutions could pushanti-EU parties to win about 25% of the 751 seats. In some of the 28 countries, they could even secure the biggest share of the vote. More:
French schoolboys wear skirts to fight sexism
France24. The “Lift the Skirt” initiative, an idea put together by students, saw pupils at 27 schools in the region around Nantes invited to attend school wearing skirts as part […]
UK: Traditional University lectures ‘being consigned to history’
Telegraph: Traditional university lectures are being consigned to history because students are accessing professors’ notes online without turning up in person, research suggests. Undergraduates are skipping almost 10 per cent of teaching time – more than an hour every week – despite a sharp rise in tuition fees, it emerged. […]
UK:Prince Charles ‘Hitler’ row ‘risks triggering international scandal’
Telegraph. Prince Charles’ comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler risks an ‘international scandal’ a Russian newspaper warns. Nick Clegg has defended the Prince of Wales over his comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, saying the heir to the throne is ‘entitled to his views’ despite warnings from a […]
Humanity First steps in to help flood affected people in Balkan Region.
By Zubair Khan MUCH of Serbia, Bosnia and eastern Croatia are under water. Flood maps marking the affected areas make it look as though a vast inland sea has suddenly appeared across the region. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. In Serbia some 300,000 do not have access […]
Australia: The Condolence Resolution on the death of Maulana Mahmood Ahmad Shahid
Source: ahmadiyya.org.au In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Ever Merciful “All that is on Earth will pass away” (Holy Quran 55:27) The Condolence Resolution on the death of Maulana Mahmood Ahmad […]
…from Bradford to London… Ahmadiyya Ride for Peace
Source: ride4peace.org | youtube.com Ahmadi cyclists will be raising money for Humanity First and the British Heart Foundation in a ride for peace, starting their journey from Baitur Rahman, Glasgow, and will cycle […]
Hopes are Alive
Source: Balkan Insight: The only signs of hope have been seen in the responses of ordinary people, who have banded together in an attempt to ensure each other’s survival. Their parents may have been on different sides in wartime, but young people from Tuzla went out to the villages to […]
UK: Muslims from Huddersfield joined to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities
Sources: examiner.co.uk Young Muslims from Huddersfield joined thousands from across the country at London’s Battersea Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for several UK charities. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya […]
New Addington could provide Muslim sect with base for new mosque
Source: croydonadvertiser.co.uk NEW ADDINGTON could be on course to get its first mosque, with local leaders of a minority Muslim sect considering the area for a new base. The Shirley branch […]
Bosnia Floods Claim Lives, Force Thousands From Homes
Source: Balkan Insight: The death toll from the floods in Bosnia continues to rise as several towns remain under water following the torrential rain of the past few days. Photo AP/ Amel Emric So far 14 bodies had been recovered in Doboj, northern Bosnia, as flood waters receded. Three other […]
Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
The British face of Boko Haram: Man suspected of masterminding bomb attacks in Nigeria was radicalised in Glamorgan
A British-born man suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria that left around 100 people dead became radicalised during his years at a Welsh university, it has been claimed. Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche is believed to have led a double life in the UK as an aspiring businessman while […]
Inside Park View academy: Religion row school ‘is victim of its success’
theguardian: by Richard Adams — Hasan Sajad is a year-11 student at Park View academy in Birmingham. He should be thinking about sitting his GCSEs shortly, but his school’s emergence at the centre of a political furore about alleged Islamist takeovers has given him something else to worry about: his future. […]
If religion doesn’t start wars, it’s clear it can make some conflicts harder to solve
theguardian: by Andrew Brown — “These conflicts are not about religion. They are about identity, and resources, and power,” he said. “Even Boko Haram is not about religion. In modern days there is no such thing as a religious conflict, which is to say a conflict which is about religious […]
Crimea’s Muslim Minority: ‘It’s Either War Or Compromise’
ALEXANDER WINNING BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them? Some Tatars – Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin – fear a return to […]
FOOTBALL: Blatter admits Qatar World Cup was a ‘mistake’
May 16, 2014 – 10:55 FIFA President Sepp Blatter says awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a “mistake”. But in an interview with Swiss public television on Thursday […]