by Jean-Claude Elias | Aug 10, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES A joke currently circulating on the web: One evening a teenager and his mother were sitting cozily, talking about life and death. Teenager: “Mom, seriously, I think euthanasia makes perfect sense. Don’t you ever let me live like a vegetable […]
Express Tribune: ‘The condemned’ is an endeavor to capture the persecution faced by the minority Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan – from their eyes. The short documentary is a collection of […]
Source: The Express Tribune LAHORE: An Ahmadi jeweller in Silanwali, Sargodha was charged with blasphemy for the second time in his life for “posing as a Muslim” and for putting up a translation of the Quranic text in his shop. Muhammad Ashraf, who was earlier charged along with his co-workers in […]
The daily Star: Jamaat-e-Islami now appears to go on with a revised strategy to take advantage of the month of Ramadan to conduct a countrywide campaign against the government and […]
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
Source: Jakarta Globe n Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, government protection of religious freedom has been deteriorating, the United States says. While the Indonesian government generally respects the freedom of the country’s six officially recognized religions, it has failed to overturn local regulations violating religious freedom, the US […]
Anti-Ahmadiyya admit that after fighting against Ahmadis and torturing them and doing everything against them we could not defeat them they are now everywhere!
Source: Hindustan Times. Clashes between minority immigrants and Bodo tribals continued unabated as the toll in the ethnic violence shot up to 40 today with the recovery of eight more bodies even as the Centre asked the Assam government to nab the “ring leaders” involved in unrest. Five more bodies […]
Source: WS journal Associated Press NEW YORK — An anti-Islam activist has won a preliminary round in her First Amendment fight to place New York City bus ads calling enemies of Israel “savages.” Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan says he agrees with blogger Pamela Geller. He says the Metropolitan […]
Source: Fox News Published July 19, 2012 Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared Thursday for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their newly built mosque, overruling a county judge’s order that was keeping […]
Source : The New York Times By SARA SCHONHARDT Published: July 18, 2012 ……. Intolerance has also led to attacks on Christians, whose churches have been closed under pressure, and on members of the Ahmadiyah, an Islamic sect many mainstream Muslims consider heretical. …… “Five years ago this trend was […]
In what was possibly the first protest of its kind, a religious organisation was met with aerial firing by the police in Karachi, when they gathered to demonstrate against the […]
Express Tribune: Don’t be taken in by the negative sound-bites. On the face of it, political forces seem to be struggling to succeed in the litmus test of managing the […]
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma Burma’s President Thein Sein told a visiting delegation from the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees that the government will not recognize the Rohingya and are considering handing over the ethnic group to the UNHCR, reported a government website today. The delegation led by Antonio […]
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN Source: MailOnline A Muslim employee of UPS in Orlando, Florida, says that his coworkers and managers routinely humiliated and harassed him while the company did little […]
Source: Deutsche Welle Hindi Pakistan has forgotten its only nobel laureate on religious grounds. Abdus Salam contributed towards providing framework for Higgs Bones ‘God particle’. Abdus Salam is an evidence of three decades of increasing religious fundamentalism in Pakistan. He died in 1996. For his advanced work on physics and […]
A well known Anti-Semite, walks into a bar and is about to order a drink when he sees a guy close by wearing a kippa, tzitzis, and payos. He doesn’t have to be an Einstein to know that this guy is Jewish.So he shouts over to the bartender so loudly, […]
SEBASTIAN ABBOT, Associated Press: ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic “God particle” last week, yet […]
Dawn: IT appears that there are three schools of thought when it comes to minority rights in Pakistan. There are those who champion religious minorities and raise their voices against […]