Source: Asia Times. A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, state news agency Petra said. Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist […]
Huff post: LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a little over a year. Both are practicing Muslims and Crimean Tatars that fled Crimea for mainland Ukraine after Russia’s military seized control of the peninsula […]
We’ll uphold Ahmadis ideal on peace, campaign against extremism— Theresa May Source: Vanguard, August 14, 2016 By Ishola Balogun, London Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa Mary May has said that […]
Source: meridianbooster.com Grace United Church met with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on Wednesday night in order to discuss the dangers of social media and how it can directly effect religious stereotypes, as well as hatred. In addition, topics were discussed concerning the new age of modern technology and how it is […]
Tribune: Although the Ahmadi community is one of the most persecuted minorities in Pakistan, they enjoy religious freedom and full rights in the United States. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney and […]
Source: The Navhind Times Is Islamic State really Islamic? Was the killing of 42 persons at Istanbul international airport on Wednesday an action justified in any way under the laws […]
DW: Mosque construction continues with community support: Ahmadi Muslim leader Mosque construction projects in two eastern German cities have broad community support despite far-right hostility, according to Ahmadi Muslims. Their German chairman describes radical Islam as a “common enemy.” The chairman of 45,000 Ahmadi Muslims in Germany, Abdullah Uwe Wagishauser, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Tyler Kingkade, who is a national reporter based in New York. You can contact him attyler.kingkade@huffingtonpost.com, or find him on Twitter: @tylerkingkade. Our nation’s first president […]
Source: Christian Today By Jeffrey Imm Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports the universal human rights of freedom of religion for all. But for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, such […]
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Source: CNS News By Lauretta Brown (CNSNews.com) – A new study released Tuesday found that Pakistan’s public school textbooks negatively portray the country’s religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis, as “untrustworthy, […]
Source: Pakistantoday.com.pk By Ayesha Khalid; who is pursuing an Mphil in Public Policy and Governance from FCC. She is a graduate of Kinnaird College, with a degree in Economics. Whether […]
Epigraph: Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
Nepali Times: At a time when ‘secularism’ has become something of a bad word in India, and the Hindu-right establishment in New Delhi is said to take a dim view of of neighbouring Nepal declaring itself ‘secular’ in its new constitution, a leading Indian thinker says the misunderstanding stems from […]
Jan 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Mohammad Fazlhashemi Many in the Muslim community have long taken issue with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The declaration, these critics attest, was created by colonial powers with a long history of gross human rights violations and amounts to yet another […]
Source: CBC Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Peterborough, Ont., today, where he spoke at a mosque that was damaged by arson last November. He toured Masjid al-Salaam, the city’s […]
Source: Washington Post By Elahe Izadi Muslims are at the center of today’s roiling debate over religious freedom in the United States. But they’ve actually been a part of that […]
Mumbai, Dec 1: After a long debate and controversy, Aamir Khan finally received support from the King Khan of Bollywood — Shahrukh Khan (SRK). The superstar of Hindi cinema finally broke his silence on the controversy related to Aamir Khan and his statement on growing intolerance in the country. Shahrukh, […]
By Rabbi Allen S. Maller Many Jews supported Muhammad when he arrived in Medina. I learned about one of them from Dr. Muqtedar Khan, a professor of Political Science, at […]
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=55b2c87502a760275e000600&autoPlay=false Award-winning actress and producer Salma Hayek joins a special #WMN to discuss her animated feature film “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” based on Gibran’s best-selling poetry book of the same […]