Jalsa Salana UK 2012 – Schedule and Speeches
Editor’s Update: Click here for English version and here for Urdu PDF from AlIslam.org front page. Read more Credit: Noorforum Full program available in Urdu at AlFazl Daily.
Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe
By Mia Shanley SWISSINFO.CH KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) – Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe. They have now reached safety in Sweden, some of the […]
Europhobia: Bulgaria and Poland decide to steer clear of troubled currency
Russian TV: Moody’s recent step to cut the eurozone’s outlook has become another sign for investors as well as for other European countries to stay away from the troubled group. […]
Slump in August car sales in France
RFI France. The manufacturers’ organisation said the number of sales of new cars in France slipped to 96,115. Over the first eight months of this year, the fall was 13.4 percent, it said, noting that the French carmakers PSA Peugeot Citroen and Renault suffered more last month than their foreign […]
Jews and Muslims Unite in Fight for Religious Freedom in Europe
Source: Arutz Sheva Jewish and Muslim religious leaders from 18 European countries will gather in Paris to discuss increasing religious prohibitions in Europe. By Rachel Hirshfeld Jewish and Muslim religious […]
Judge questions legality of child ear-piercing
Credit: The Local The judge in the case said there was a need to establish the legal situation in light of the recent Cologne court ruling that circumcision of a child on religious grounds was a punishable offense. The parents of the girl brought a civil action against the owner […]
Man dies as playground dare backfires
Source: The Local The unnamed man was at a playground in Bavaria with three friends, who dared him to let them use adhesive tape to tie him to a roundabout and see how fast they could spin it. The group then tied the roundabout to a car and drove off […]
Protests Continue over Berlin Anti-Semitic Attack
Source: Spiegel International An attack on a Berlin rabbi reportedly perpetrated by youths of Arab origin has sparked a debate about anti-Semitism in the country that has increased tensions between […]
How Switzerland is weathering the storm
by Chantal Britt, swissinfo.ch Switzerland is mastering the current economic crisis better than its recession-hit European peers. To explain the discrepancy with prosperity and unique laws that foster money laundering […]
Jalsa Salana UK 2012: 46th Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at
“Jalsa Salana United Kingdom 2012” the 46th Annual Convention will be held by the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at on 7th, 8th and 9th of September, 2012 in Hadeeqa-tul-Mahdi. This Annual Convention “Jalsa Salana” […]
What type of Islam, I want?
By Bashy Quraishy: A journalist from Denmark, Secretary General – EMISCO -European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion, Chair-Advisory Council-ENAR – Brussels and Chair-Jewish Muslim Co-operation Platform – Brussels Dear friend Munir Varraich Thank you so much for asking this timely question. Unfortunately, after asking something, which all of the Muslims […]
Poll confirms the French are pessimistic about the future
By RFI While it not may come as a surprise to many to hear the French are unhappy about something, an official poll released on Saturday by the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) said 68 percent of the population are pessimistic when it comes to their future, despite the arrival […]
Putin praises patriotic Russians at mock 1812 battle against Napoleon
By RFI President Vladimir Putin watched on Sunday as thousands of French and Russian actors recreated the 200-year-old battle which led to the fall of Napoleon, in the town of Borodino just outside Moscow. The Moscow government spent 900 million euros on the festivities to mark the event, and Russian authorities […]
Review of Religions Publishes Letters to the World Leaders
Letters by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) Fifth Khalifa of the Promised Messiah, Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community Click here for Letters to Leaders Part […]
Family stopped with dead dad in car
Credit: The Local German traffic police who stopped a car for driving erratically found the body of the driver’s father stuffed behind the back seat. It appears he starved to death. Read More:
Berlin a ‘nightmare for pedestrians’
Credit: The Local Germany Experts at Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are fed up with the traffic light system in the capital and have admonished the city government for failing to get it right despite numerous attempts, local paper Tagesspiegel reported. Waiting for up to four minutes for the […]
Romanian PM: Secret police in German press
Credit: The Local Germany Premier Victor Ponta claimed that former Soviet-era agents were operating within the German media and that they were to blame for critiques of his administration. He said agents whose loyalties lay with late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu whose secret service, the Securitate, had hidden operatives in […]
Cardinal Called Church ‘200 Years Out of Date’ Soon Before Death
Source: The New York Times By REUTERS ROME (Reuters) — The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the Roman Catholic Church was “200 years […]
In a Ban, a Measure of European Tolerance
PARIS — During a recent protest in Marseille, seven people were suddenly surrounded by the police, bundled into a van and brought in for questioning. Their offense was not the […]
British far-right extremists voice support for Anders Breivik
National Front and English Defence League members praise Norwegian mass murderer as ‘inspirational’ and a ‘role model’. A number of rightwing British activists have publicly praised mass murderer Anders Behring […]