Tunisian minister blasts university’s handling of veil row
AFP | Mar 08,2012 | 22:38 JORDAN TIMES TUNIS — A Tunisian minister on Thursday condemned a university’s ban on full-face veils that sparked a weeks-long sit-in by conservative Muslims, […]
FBI Says NYPD Muslim Surveillance Is Breaking The Islamic Community’s Trust
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) As friction over the New York Police Department’s spying on New Jersey Muslims continues to grow, the state’s top FBI officer said the uproar is damaging his agency’s ability to gather important counterterrorism intelligence. “What we have now is (Muslim communities) … that they’re not sure they […]
Hassan Nisar Comments on Shezan Products Boycotted By Pakistani Lawyers
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Muslims must counter bigotry and hatred online
By MOLOUK Y. BA-ISA, ARAB NEWS STAFF Published: Mar 8, 2012 02:14 Updated: Mar 8, 2012 02:14 According to the British Runnymede Trust, Islamophobia “is a useful shorthand way of […]
Olive branches hard to find in Palestine
Credit: Asia Times on Line: By Ramzy Baroud Ongoing destruction of Palestinian olive trees by Israeli settlers underlines Israel’s efforts to break historic bonds. Bizarre laws allowing indefinite detentions, property seizures and the interrogation of surgery patients add insult, and as apartheid-like practices worsen, counting on Western leaders to provoke change […]
Pakistani Muslims Employ ‘Blasphemy’ Threat in Land Grab
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: Compass Direct News, By BP News Attempt fails as influential Islamic family intervenes on behalf of Christians SIALKOT, Pakistan (Compass Direct News)–Tensions are still high in […]
Switzerland: Naturalisation vote raises emotions
by Thomas Stephens, swissinfo.ch Life for aspiring Swiss in Zurich could get harder on March 11, when voters decide on whether to accept a new – and tightened – naturalisation […]
Seriously, Washington’s Afghan policy will not work
By Fareed Zakaria, The Daily Star, Lebanon The controversy over the desecration of copies of the Quran in Afghanistan and the murder of Americans that followed is, on one level, one moment in a long war. But it also highlights the difficult and ultimately unsustainable aspect of America’s Afghan policy. […]
Pakistan’s Fearless women: Sherry Rehman, Shehrbano Taseer feature on world women list
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: The Express Tribune Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman and daughter of slain Punjab governor Shehrbano Taseer, have featured on The Daily Beast (Newsweek) list […]
Insecure minorities: Pakistani Hindus seek safety in India
Express Tribune: KARACHI: Preetam Das is a good doctor with a hospital job and a thriving private clinic, yet all he thinks about is leaving Pakistan, terrified about a rise in […]
America’s Islamic Blind Spots: “You can do anything to these people”
by Naomi Wolf, The Project Syndicate NEW YORK – In the wake of the Koran-burning by troops at the United States’ Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, protests continue to escalate, and the death […]
Run for your Life- Pakistan Today: Were Jinnah and Zafarullah Khan Wrong?
Express Tribune: Op Ed: Pervez Hoodbhoy: Eighteen bloodied bodies, shot Gestapo-style, lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, demanding that […]
Will there be another massacre of Ahmadi Muslims– this time in Rawalpindi? State Vs.Faith-The Ahmadiyya Case
Rawal TV: Waqas Munawar; Will there be another Ahmadi massacre in Rawalpindi? The persecution continues unabated and getting severe by the day. More voices are being heard both inside and […]
What’s inside Muslim minds? A Survey
Daily Times Pakistan: Ishtiaq Ahmad: Multiple meanings and interpretations of Islam are possible. The two main interpretative approaches are those of the apologists who strive to reconcile Islam with modernity […]
Zero tolerance for terror, Human Rights abuses: Jammu & Kashmir Governor
Jammu, Feb 23: Observing that the Jammu and Kashmir Government was following a policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism and human rights violations, Governor N N Vohra today said it will continue to maintain utmost vigil in the area of internal security. “Following a policy of zero tolerance towards both […]
From ‘Nominal Catholic’ to Clarion of Faith
NY Times: GREAT FALLS, Va. — Rick Santorum was, in his own words, a “nominal Catholic” when he met Karen Garver, a neonatal nurse and law student, in 1988. As they made […]
Anyone Caught Defecting From North Korea Will See Three Generations Of Their Family Executed
On a grey afternoon in Seoul, in the shadow of the mountains that surround the city, North Korean defectors stood behind a police cordon and struggled to raise their voices above the sound of late-afternoon traffic. The defectors and their supporters have been gathering daily in front of the Chinese embassy in the South […]
Florida mulls outlawing Shariah, other foreign laws
Associated Press: WEST PALM BEACH: A measure to ban the use of foreign laws in US courtrooms is progressing in Florida’s statehouse. Critics call this one of the many unwarranted […]
Do I have the right to remain Ahmadi?
In 1966, nearly 180 million people in the US received Miranda rights – the right to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination. Half a century later, a religious community in Pakistan, another country […]
Rich New York Woman Accused Of Keeping Immigrant Slave For Over 5 Years
A criminal complaint filed this week against a wealthy New York woman alleges that she kept an undocumented immigrant as a house worker for years, paying her just 85 cents an hour for nearly constant labor, and making her sleep in a walk-in closet. Read more: