Credit: TOI PARIS: A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al-Qaida, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in southwestern France. About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armour, cordoned off […]
“Conferences such as these provide a platform for people to come together and demonstrate strength in unity. But it is at the grassroots that the real hard work is done to build […]
FOUNDATION STONE FOR NEW AHMADIYYA MUSLIM MOSQUE LAID IN WALSALL TOWN CENTRE, UNITED KINGDOM. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 18 March 2012, its world leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad laid […]
Baitul Atta Mosque inaugurated by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 17 March 2012, its world leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the […]
Queen Beatrix will no longer be involved in the formation of a new cabinet following a vote in parliament on Monday evening. A large majority of MPs voted for the change which means in future parliamentarians will first debate a general election result and then decide who should negotiate between […]
Dutch MP Hero Brinkman has announced he is breaking ranks with Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party over a lack of internal democracy. As a result, the government’s support in parliament has been weakened, but Brinkman said he will not withdraw his support for Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s minority coaliton. “All my […]
Source: Spiegel Germany By SPIEGEL Staff A snap election in North Rhine-Westphalia will put Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government under intense strain this spring. Her junior partner, the FDP, is putting its own survival above coalition unity. And an early tactical error by her party’s candidate, Norbert Röttgen, could wreck its […]
Washington Post: By Michael Birnbaum: WARSAW — Here in Poland, where dreary communist-style apartment blocks still dominate the landscape, the euro was once hailed as a fast-track ticket to the economic […]
BRUSSELS, March 20 (KUNA) — The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) has strongly condemned the shooting of four people including three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse on Monday. “It is in an appalling incident that represents a despicable and shocking act,” said […]
TOULOUSE, France, March 19 (Reuters) – A gunman shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, days after killing three soldiers nearby, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to put the region on its highest terrorism alert. With the attacker, who escaped on a […]
by Rachid Khechana in Doha, swissinfo.ch Switzerland is preparing to open an embassy in Qatar, a country it sees as an increasingly important player in the region. Ambassador Martin Aeschbacher tells swissinfo.ch that the small Gulf kingdom “is on the rise” economically. Aeschbacher says relations with Gulf states are growing […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Fifty years ago French and Algerian representatives signed a series of peace accords in the French town of Evian, ending Algeria’s brutal eight-year war of independence. By offering its good offices under a policy of active neutrality, which helped resolve the conflict, historian Marc Perrenoud tells […]
Charlotte exhibit shows how Albanians sheltered their neighbors from the Nazis By Michael J. Solender Like freshly discovered treasures on a receding shoreline at low tide, once buried stories of […]
Source: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl Witold Krassowski/ DER SPIEGEL Determined to develop its nuclear industry to meet its booming energy needs, Poland is tired of lectures from its environmentally conscious neighbor Germany. After all, Poles argue, the Germans have benefitted from nuclear power for decades. The differing energy philosophies threaten to strain […]
A group of Swiss Muslims has published recommendations for integration in response to a nationwide vote which banned the construction of minarets in Switzerland. The 2009 initiative to ban construction […]
Euronews: Interview by Chris Burns: “The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, wraps up his six year term at the end of this month and he’s going out […]
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante’s medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from classrooms. The epic poem, written in the 14th century, is split into three parts, tracing the poet’s journey through Inferno, Purgatorio […]
Credit: Wasim Ahmad Butt. By Zubair Khan Mamdouh Ahmed Butt with German Chancellor Chancellor Angela Merkel. When ever any Ahmadi achieves any distinction it gives immense pleasure to whole of the Jamaat. Mention of such achievements by Ahamdies pave the ways for others to follow the same path. By […]
From London, to Glasgow and across the UK, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Campaign is spreading right across the nation bringing hope in this age. Rochester Cathedral is England’s second oldest, […]
The Dailytimes; The religious schools are an opportunity for youngsters to study to be imams, ministers argue Education reforms which would allow parents to put their children in religious schools […]