The apostates of Pakistan
livemint.com: Aakar Patel I wrote this piece for the two Pakistani newspapers where I write columns, but they did not publish it. These papers are quite liberal, and their editors open-minded. […]
Turkey is seeking to assure its non-Muslim citizens
By Bulent Arinc The Daily Star Lebanon After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities. In […]
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 […]
Gujarat riots – I’m still able to hope
Hindustan times 28th February 2012 By Harish Mander Despite what happened in Gujarat 10 years ago, India has rejected the politics of hate. People at every level in the state have […]
Delhi World Book fair: A fair like no other
In Delhi it’s that time of year again when publishers, distributors and retailers are scrambling around frantically getting everything from point-of-sale to stocks right. It’s the World Book fair (WBF), which comes around once every two years sprawling across the giant halls of Pragati Maidan. This is the fair’s 20th […]
President Koroma of Sierra Leone officially opened the Jalsa Salana of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission
Bo, Southern Sierra Leone: In keeping with his policy of religious tolerance, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma officially opened the 51st Jalsa Salana of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Bo […]
Muslim campaign looks to repair Sharia’s reputation
Credit: CNN Belief Blog via Wasim Saroya: By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – A major American Muslim group is embarking on a national campaign Friday to clarify a word it says has been given a bad name by recent global and domestic politics: Sharia. The Islamic Circle of North […]
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 […]
Should Psalms be taken out of the Old Testament?
The seventy some books of the Bible got into the canon, sacred collection of books to make the Bible, not by divine revelation, but by human vote and the Bibles […]
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, […]
Why does God keep us in suspense?
by hugo born NZZ Neue Zuercher Zeitung on Wednesday the 22th February 2012 The following text was written by Ruedi Schmid. (please bear with us: It is a Google translation from German). The phenomenon is a concern people have always had: If God would reveal himself, the eternal dispute would […]
Muhammad in Bible: Bible which predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad unearthed in Turkey
The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus’ native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet’s coming. Turkish culture and tourism minister […]
Contribution of Islam to refugee law discussed
By ARWA RIKABI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees hosted a round-table discussion on Tuesday about the comparative study written on behalf of the UNHCR […]
Shoura OKs King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Center for Dialogue in Vienna
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The Shoura Council approved a draft proposal on Monday to set up the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna. The approval was given at the eighth regular session of the council chaired by Abdullah Al-Asheikh on […]
Ahmadiyya bikers rally to promote unity, love and brotherhood.
Source: Jagran Qadian, Gurdaspur: In order to promote National unity, love and brotherhood, Ahmadi muslims undertook a bikers rally towards Hoshiarpur in Punjab, India. Organized on behalf of Majlis Ansarullah Qadian, this rally was to promote the message of peace in Punjab. Majlis Ansarullah organizes events of this type […]
Moderation in Islam: Feed a hungry man before preaching
A beautiful story from the Buddhist scripture Dhammapada. Feed a hungry man before preaching “One day, the Buddha(a.s.) saw in his vision that a poor man would attain the first […]
Islam: Children of Abraham Documentary – Part Two
It is a well done three part documentary. The first part is easier to find in Google videos.
Interfaith Harmony award for Yusufali
A Madin Islamic Academy release here on Tuesday said that the award was aimed at strengthening the message of harmony and tolerance. It said that Yusufali was selected for the award in recognition of his promotional programmes on interfaith harmony initiatives that fortify the great slogan — unity in diversity. […]
Islam Helps Aussies Against Islamophobia
MELBOURNE – A new research study has found that tolerant Islamic teachings help young Australian Muslims cope with Islamophobic and racist campaigns against their faith in the post-9/11 era. “I […]