Europe

Ghost ship with cannibal rats approaching UK?

Source: TOI A ghost ship carrying nothing but disease-ridden rats could be about to make land on Britain’s shore, experts have warned. The Lyubov Orlova cruise liner has been drifting across the north Atlantic for the better part of a year, and salvage hunters say there is a strong chance it is heading this way. Built in Yugoslavia in […]

The Internet is a ‘gift from God.’

Source: CNN (CNN) Careerist clergy. The super rich. And now we can add another pelt to Pope Francis’ collection: Internet trolls.In statement released on Thursday, the Pope said the Internet and social media are making people across the world “increasingly interdependent.””The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity,” […]

Keighley’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association raise funds for Philippines typhoon victims

Source: keighleynews.co.uk Members of Keighley’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association clubbed together to raise funds for Philippines typhoon victims at a charity dinner. The meal was organised by international disaster relief charity Humanity First, and was staged at the Hilton Hotel in Bradford. A total of £18,090 was raised, of which the […]

The Suleymaniye Mosque and the great architect Sinan

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Press Release UK: Global Minorities Alliance Urges Release of British doctor accused of blasphemy

From: Global Minorities Alliance Ahmadi’s case shows how persecution against minorities is ‘escalating’ Glasgow: A UK-based human rights organisation is calling on the authorities in Pakistan to release a 72-year-old doctor who was arrested for ‘posing as a Muslim’ after being secretly filmed by a patient at his surgery. Global […]

NEW MOSQUE OPENED BY WORLD MUSLIM LEADER IN CRAWLEY

Soure: Press@amjinternational.org The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 18 January 2014, its world leader, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, inaugurated the Noor Mosque in Crawley in West Sussex. Upon arriving at the premises, His Holiness officially inaugurated the Mosque […]

What purpose organised atheism?

theguardian  — Zoe Williams says that if you place religious belief on the human rights agenda then you have to allow atheism equal weight (Comment, 15 January). It would be better to simply place “religious belief or non-belief” on the agenda. This is because the term “atheist” is freighted with much excess […]