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 […]
Gambia: Face-to-Face With Dr Tahir Mehmood Minhas
Credit:All Africa via Wasim Saroya interview In this week’s Health Promotion Column, we bring excerpts of the interview we had with Dr. Tahir Mehmood Minhas , general and plastic surgeon of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Hospital in the Gambia. Dr Minhas spoke at length on a wide range of issues including his profile, educational background, work […]
Political Extremists Boost Clout Amid Europe’s Downturn
CNBC.com: Support for extreme political movements is building across Europe as the economy starts worsening again – and analysts and anti-extremist organizations are increasingly worried that parties on the left- […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
Police bar Ahmadis from entering worship centre
Express Tribune: RAWALPINDI: Complying with the demands of the locals, the police on Friday barred Ahmadis from entering their worship centre in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi. Leading the locals, businessman Sharjeel Mir […]
Humanity First: Helping humanity, True Image of Islam
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk Source/Credit: The Guggington Post | Gadling Blog By Chris Owen | February 28, 2012 Humanity First works to assist people affected by natural disasters, war, […]
Why Pakistan can not adopt Joint-Electorate System?
Credit: UKTIMES LONDON: By Zubair Khan During its continuous turbulent history, Pakistan, at times adopted Joint-Electorate System while some times it resorted to Separate Electorate System. Currently it is sticking to Separate Electorate System for many years. An effort has been made to briefly define these systems with some apparent […]
The Shocking Case For Legalizing Infanticide
The ancient Romans used to expose unwanted babies on hillsides. Thankfully, we have come a long way since those bad old days. We would never countenance letting a baby die of exposure or get eaten by animals. No, today’s infanticide promoters insist that babies be killed painlessly. After all, we aren’t barbarians! […]
A Hindu refugee in 2002 anti-muslim Gujarat riots relief camp
Shivappa Basappa Manu’s family was the only Hindu group that lived at the Shah-e-Alam relief camp meant for Muslim refugees during the 2002 riots. Instead of taking the lifesaving way out and asserting his Hindu identity, Shivappa – from Hussainnagar ni Chawl in Naroda Paita – chose to not abandon […]
India- Ahmadiyya Muslim community running 1200 centers for service and social welfare
On the eve of Yom-e-Musleh Maud, National president of the Ahmadiyya youth organization Makdum Sharif expressed that the Ahmadiyya youth organization which was initiated by Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (r.t.) now has around 1200 centers running all throughout the nation. It provides help to the needy, arranges for medical camp, […]
Tunisian leader urges law against allegations of blasphemy, outlaws accusations of blasphemy
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Saturday called on parliament to outlaw accusations of blasphemy as a threat to public order. “Such practices can threaten the peace between citizens living in the same country and lead to conflict,” Marzouki warned in a statement. He asked the president and members of the […]
60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
Source: The New York Times RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. And then a year ago, he decided in an instant to donate his left […]
Feeding the bomb, starving the nation
Dawn: Murtaza Haider: Pakistanis are fast becoming a wasted nation. The alarmingly high level of malnutrition observed in Pakistan in the past few years is far worse than what has […]
Joachim Gauk to be the new German Federal President
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she backs Joachim Gauck, a pastor and former East German rights activist, to be the country’s next president. Mr Gauck was proposed by the opposition Social […]