Europe’s first clinic dedicated to treating women who have suffered female genital mutilation opened on Wednesday in Berlin. The Desert Flower Centre will offer both surgical and psychological care for those who have had the procedure. Led by a team of experts in gynaecological and pelvic surgery as well as […]
Humanity First – UK Imran JattalaLos Angeles Islam Examiner September 17, 2013 Humanity First, an international aid agency providing services to relieve sufferings caused by human conflicts and natural disasters, […]
Source: The Local The majority of Germans mistrust EU institutions and would like to see more decisions made at national rather than European level, a study released on Tuesday suggests. More:
Source: The Local: A Berlin judge has banned a Muslim lawyer from wearing a headscarf in his courtroom stating she should show religious neutrality. More:
LONDON (AFP) – Rights group Amnesty International announced on Tuesday it had awarded its highest honour to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot in the head last year by the Taliban […]
Published on Sep 16, 2013 What is at stake for Tehran as Washington deals with Syria? Is Obama genuinely interested in diplomacy? And could the dreadful conflict in Syria be […]
theguardian: by Victoria Coren Mitchell. But I know this much: I will never again think that a veiled woman is strange or unknowable. Whether we’re both right or both wrong, I will recognise her as very familiar – only, perhaps, having made her choices more decisively than I make mine. […]
by Simon Bradley, swissinfo.ch September 16, 2013 – 11:00 The Swiss government recently eased visa rules to help reunite Syrians from the war-torn state with their relatives in Switzerland. But what difference will this gesture make in practice? swissinfo.ch gauges the temperature among Syrian expats. “It’s a really good thing; […]
Source: Asia Times: By Spengler Americans see individual pieces of geopolitical real estate in isolation, like hotels on the Monopoly board, while the Russians look at the interaction of all their spheres of interest around the globe. Syria is of no real strategic interest to Russia, nor to anyone else […]
Guardian: Individuals and institutions should be able to make their own decisions [on the veil] ad hoc.’ Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Do we really want a “national debate” about veiling? […]
Source: Frankfurt Rundshau via Zafarullah Khan, local secretary external Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Frankfurt 16. September 2013 Landtagswahlen WahlkampfDebatte im Gebetsraum Von Jakob Blume Note by the Editor: 22.09.2013 is the day for general elections in whole of Germany. This year enthusiasm for general election is at its lowest. Majority […]
In the meantime it is safe to say that Britain is not France. Ours is not a constitutionally secular country; nor one that in colonial times assigned itself a “mission civilatrice” and explicitly sought full assimilation as an alternative to grappling with the complexities of clashing cultures. Ahmadiyya Times | […]
Source: Abid Khan Incharge Press Desk AMJ On Friday, September 13, 2013, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spoke with […]
By Laiq Ahmed Atif is president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta. A subject that becomes the talk of the town in the month of September is the peril of extremism and terrorism in the world. Sometimes, this debate goes one step further and people start talking about extremism and radicalisation in […]
Huff Post: A Christian school in the Netherlands, Pieter Zandt Scholengemeenschap, was horrified to find an allegedly satanic symbol in its latest student agenda, asking parents and students to return the planners for shredding. That symbol? A peace sign. School board chairman Johan van Puten told Dutch newspaper Trouw that a Google search revealed […]
examiner.com: The Khalifa of Islam issued a stern caution to the world leaders that the current global situation – centered around the conditions inSyria – ‘is fast moving towards a devastation.’ Hadhrat (His Holiness) Mirza […]
Couples in the region of Ulyanovsk told to take the day off in order to procreate, while athletes raise concerns over Russia’s homophobic policies BY JOSEPH CHARLTON, THE INDEPENDENT Russia […]
Guardian: A college has abandoned its ban on Muslim face veils after a storm of local protest, a planned demonstration and the involvement of the prime minister. Birmingham Metropolitan College climbed down […]
Source: Politiken – News in English A 20 metre minaret is being raised in Nørrebro Work began this morning to raise Denmark’s first tall minaret atop the country’s first purpose […]
Russia Today: Assad’s government must submit a comprehensive list of its chemical weapons stocks within a week ahead of their transfer and destruction, US Secretary John Kerry said at a […]