“Most beautiful gem”: 50 years Mahmud Mosque in Zurich
Friday 21 June 2013 The founder of the oldest mosque in Switzerland was actually sent out to build a mosque in Germany. However, due to the complicated entry procedures in […]
Switzerland’s First Mosque celebrates 50 years in Zurich
50 years ago, the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Pakistan’s Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, inaugurated the mosque in the residential district of Balgrist in Zurich. https://themuslimtimes.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mahmud-moschee.jpeg?resize=334%2C334 […]
Religious Oppression Rises globally- Pew Study Shows
Huff Post: By Lauren Markoe WASHINGTON (RNS) People who hoped the Arab Spring would lead to greater religious freedom across the Middle East have been sorely disappointed, and a new […]
UK countryside suffers shocking poverty
A rising number of food banks have been set up across the UK to help poor people cope with the soaring cost of living, but less is heard about deprived […]
Andalusian fusion: Christianity and Islam
Nowhere in Europe is the complex coexistence between Islam and Christianity more etched in historical landscapes and current customs than here, in Spain’s Andalusia, a vast region of snowy mountains, […]
David Versus Goliath: Dawkins, McGrath or Me – Who is the Most Rational? Part II
Epigraph: “Is he, then, who knows that what has been revealed to thee (Muhammad) from thy Lord is the truth, like one who is blind? But only those gifted with understanding will […]
Khalifa of Islam to visit Germany!
By Zubair Khan The spiritual supreme head of International Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (atba) shall be honouring the German Ahmadiyya Muslim Community with his blessed presence on the […]
World Peace: Peace Initiatives of Ahmadiyya Youth in the UK
MKAUK: Published on Jun 17, 2013 World Peace – How to establish peace in the world? An Interfaith forum on How to Establish World Peace broadcast at the Leamington Peace […]
Polish driving Too many road deaths
Source: The Economist THE headline stories on one of the Polish papers on June 13th made typical reading. Four people killed when their car ploughed into a shop near Poznan; five dead after their car rolled off the tarmac and into a ditch along a rural road in the northwest. Nine […]
Disunited Kingdom
Source: Spiegel The economic crisis has caused the United Kingdom to drift apart, creating ever-widening rifts between rich and poor, native and immigrant, English and Scot. With the anti-Europe UKIP party on the rise, Great Britain stands at a crossroads. More:
Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia distributed fruit to the immigrants, provided by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Jamaat (Malta)
Source: timesofmalta.com There cannot be a common refugee policy in the EU unless all states acknowledge that some immigrants have to be relocated to other member states, Home Affairs Minister Manuel […]
Religious fundamentalism could soon be treated as mental illness
Source: Digital Journal By John Thomas Didymus. The moral-ethical dimension arises from the predictable tendency when acting on the problem, armed with a new technology, to apply to the label […]
BANK DEAL DEAD: Swiss parliament kills divisive US tax bill
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch June 19, 2013 – 17:42 Parliament has thrown out a draft law enabling Swiss banks to hand over confidential data to the United States for cracking down on suspected tax cheats. However, it called on the cabinet to find legal means to resolve the standoff. For […]
100 DAYS OF POPE FRANCIS: ʻThings are happening behind the scenesʼ
by Olivier Pauchard, swissinfo.ch June 19, 2013 – 11:00 One hundred days after his election, Pope Francis is enjoying a positive image and heightened popularity. Although he hasn’t been in […]
God Reference Dropped in UK Girl Guide’s Pledge
CBN: The long established British scouting organization Girl Guide are removing God from their pledge. The new pledge was unveiled Wednesday. A reference to “loving God” has been replaced with […]
Confronting the Vatican on the Rights of Children
Huff Post: This week in Geneva, the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of the Child is hearing closed-door testimony about official Catholicism’s compliance with the 1989 Convention on the […]
Pregnant Muslim Woman ‘Miscarries Baby After Veil Attack
Huffington Post UK | By Sara C Nelson Posted: 19/06/2013 1 A pregnant Muslim woman has miscarried her baby after she was reportedly attacked in Paris for wearing a veil. The unnamed 21-year-old was four months pregnant when she claims she was attacked by “skinheads” in the suburb of Argenteuil. […]
‘Muslims in Germany have rights and obligations’: Interview of Abdullah Uwe Wagishauser by DW
DW.De: For the first time in Germany, a Muslim community has been granted ‘corporation under public law’ status. Abdullah Uwe Wagishauser, its chairman, tells DW that this includes rights as […]
A More Secular Europe, Divided by the Cross
By ANDREW HIGGINS Published: June 17, 2013 NY Times: BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Stanislav Zvolensky, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Slovak capital here, was thrilled when he was invited to Brussels […]
500th Reformation Anniversary: Catholics, Lutherans To Mark Split Together
Epigraph: And hold fast, all together, by the rope of Allah and be not divided; and remember the favour of Allah which He bestowed upon you when you were enemies […]