20th February marks anniversary of the prophecy concerning the ‘Promised Son’ The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that today, 20th February 2013, marks the 127th anniversary of […]
Eight masked gunmen have snatched some CHF46 million ($50 million) worth of diamonds from the hold of a Zurich-bound Helvetic Airways plane at Brussels airport without firing a shot, the […]
Source: eurasiareview, by Linda S. Heard. Societal permissiveness, where family life has broken down in the absence of traditional mores, has made demands on young women, valuing them accordance to their physical attributes. Islam offers those women a sense of belonging, a community of like minds in areas where there […]
The Sydney Morning Herald: ALL Muslims should renounce their religion immediately in favour of Christianity or atheism – it would be better for them and for everyone else, controversial Dutch […]
by Chantal Britt, swissinfo.ch Feb 19, 2013 – 10:59 Outgoing Novartis chairman Daniel Vasella has chosen to forego a CHF72 million ($78 million) payout to prevent him from working for […]
Source: Spiegel Germany. With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation drawing closer, the struggle for power in the Vatican has gotten underway in earnest. The church badly needs to reform itself, but with Ratzinger lurking in the shadows, will it be able to? More:
Source: The Local: The scope of Europe’s meat scandal is likely to widen, German Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner warned on Monday, after it was revealed that horse and pork have been found in German döner kebabs. More:
The International Criminal Court (ICC) should take on the cases of “very high officials” who have perpetrated human rights violations in Syria, according to Carla del Ponte, a member of a special United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI). Del Ponte, a former Swiss federal prosecutor who also served as prosecutor […]
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers on Monday stopped short of meeting Britain’s demand to lift an arms embargo on Syria but agreed to allow “non-lethal” aid and “technical assistance” […]
The News: LONDON: A British government minister, Lord Tariq Ahmad, has condemned the bomb attacks in Quetta, which have killed more than 80 people from the Shia Hazara community. “Yet […]
The Guardian; An office worker who left a severed pig’s head outside a Muslim place of worship on Boxing Day has been spared jail. Liam Ferrar was sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for a year, after a court heard he was disgusted by his actions and had written a […]
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci ROME – With a gesture that breaks with thousands of years of tradition, the Pope, usually considered a bulwark of conservatism in the world, has projected the Catholic Church into the third millennium and presented Western culture with a challenge. The West has been […]
Gatestone Institute: All had been relatively quiet at the Córdoba Cathedral for more than 750 years, until January 2004, when Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden began encouraging Muslims to […]
Source: The Malta Independent, Wednesday 13 February 2013. By Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, amjmalta@gmail.com Life is one continuous change; new generations replace the older generations; yesterday’s children are today’s youth, and today’s youth are tomorrow’s aged people, and thus life goes one. This is a natural circle of […]
theguardian: Oliver Burkeman. There isn’t a secret switch that lets villains control your thoughts; instead, there are TV ads and manipulative friends and guilt-inducing religions, and a million other ways in which we influence, and are influenced, all the time. No wonder psychologists shun the term “brainwashing” these days. It […]
Source: The Economist: AS THEY mull over the details of his papacy—the gaffes, the cerebral pronouncements, the deepening scandals—some Vatican-watchers will struggle to position Pope Benedict XVI in the broad sweep of Catholic history. Does he mark the end of an era? The start of something new? Or was he […]
The world’s oldest aid organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, is marking its 150th anniversary today. Since its inception, the ICRC has brought relief to the victims of […]
Source:Newyork Times. There is no formal nominating process for choosing the man to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, and campaigning for oneself is counterproductive. But the cardinals who will file into the Sistine Chapel next month to elect a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church have been quietly sizing up […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the European Union to devote “critical effort” to avoid confrontation over Iran’s nuclear energy program. At a news conference after a […]
theguardian: Jonathan Freedland. As an ex-pope, Benedict will no longer enjoy the sovereign immunity available to heads of state. A prosecution is possible – but only in theory. Who would hand him over? Certainly not the Italian authorities. For all that, despite his age and the reverence of the office […]