Sally Mauk: Islam promotes equality, American Muslim woman says
Source: Missoulian Aisha Rahman is a American-born Muslim raised in a small town in Tennessee, where her father was a doctor at a small hospital. Her family had emigrated earlier […]
In Islam, Heaven Is Not Exclusive
Huff Post He was trying to find his way. While driving to the mosque for my Friday prayers, I saw him in my back view mirror, fidgeting with his GPS on a hot summer day. Driving up on Park Heights in Baltimore with a car full of children, this visibly […]
George Galloway’s Muslim conversion: why the big secret?
Source: The Telegraph Why did George Galloway feel the urge to keep his conversion to Islam secret? The New Statesman reveals today, in an interview by Jemima Khan with the […]
Why don’t Ahmadis join non-Ahmadi prayer services?
LankaWeb Another objection that is raised concerns the prayers. Why don’t Ahmadi Muslims pray behind a non-Ahmadi Imam? They are purposely creating division in Islam and do not want to be with other Muslims? This is a very sad affair, but we need to look to the history and we see that […]
Islam Without Extremes – A Muslim Case for Liberty: Interview with Turkish author Mustafa Akyol
The Washington Times HOUSTON, April 20, 2012 — In his new book, Islam Without Extremes—A Muslim Case for Liberty, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol attempts to lay the philosophical foundation for liberal democracy in […]
Does Religion Matter? Time to End Profiling
Huff Post: Congress recently held a hearing titled, “End Racial Profiling in America.” The scope of the hearing was unique in so far as it was not only limited to the experiences of African Americans and Latinos but encompassed the American Muslim one, too. While African Americans and Latinos have […]
Merkel ally says Islam not part of Germany
(Reuters) – A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country. “Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in […]
Muslim youth association visits Port Hope Saturday
Northumberland TODAY: PORT HOPE — In 14 months, the Ahmadiyya Muslin Youth Association of Canada has visited 200 communities in Canada, its 2,649 volunteers helping them reach 1.3-million people in a bid to promote peace, condemn terrorism and dispel myths about Islam. On Saturday, they will make a stop at […]
An address by Dr. Ifthikar Ahmad Ayaz at Ahmadiyya Peace Symposium – Malta.
Lankaweb (Given below is the gist of the speech delivered by Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Ayaz, O.B.E. at: Peace Symposium organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta recently.) Dr. Ifthikhar Ahmad Ayaz, OBE 1.(Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire) 2. Consul General of Tuvalu Island in the United Kingdom 3. […]
Is secularisation of Pakistan possible? —Yasser Latif Hamdani
Source: Daily Times, Pakistan Secularisation and state secularism, however, are distinguishable. The former is an evolutionary process and the latter a constitutional expression of the state’s impartiality to all religious […]
What Really Happened When Muhammad Met Jesus?
Source: Huff Post By Kemal Argon Christians are directly concerned with and interested in the prophetic biography of Jesus Christ. Muslims are directly interested in the prophetic biography of the Prophet Muhammad and following his example. Muslims believe that both of these Prophets, Muhammad and Jesus, actually met each other. […]
Saudi cleric gets 5-year jail for ‘incitement’
Source: Ahmadiyya Times RIYADH, April 11: A Saudi court sentenced a cleric who fiercely supports the segregation of the sexes to five years in prison on Wednesday for ‘incitement’ against rulers, media reported. Yussef al-Ahmad was also sentenced to a five-year travel ban and fined 100,000 Saudi riyals, said aleqt.com, […]
Abdennour Bidar: Mohammed Merah, a monster created by Islam’s illness
Source:AsiaNews.it A great French Muslim philosopher asks whether salafist violence – like that which killed the children of Jewish school in Toulouse – is not a symptom of something deeply wrong with the Muslim tradition. A religion that has closed in on itself. To renew Islam today, the challenge of modernity […]
Muhammad Khurshid Khan: Muslim Cleans Shoes In Shrines To Atone For Beheading Of Sikh By Islamists
Huff Post HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan — Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pakistan. The unassuming 62-year-old tending to the shoes is […]
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslims Jama’at 36th Jalsa Salana Held
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in The Gambia on Friday held its 36th Jalsa Salana (annual convention) at Masroor Senior Secondary School in Old Yumdum. Addressing the convention, Amir Sahib Baba F Trawally, the Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of The Gambia revealed that this blessed and divine gathering started […]
Kenya: Ahmadiyya Muslims urge peace, tolerance
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Kenya has called for tolerance, harmony and peaceful coexistence as the country prepares for the next generation elections. Addressing faithfuls during their 46th Annual Convention at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Muranga Road, Nairobi on Saturday, the Kenyan head of the Mission Naeem Ahmed Mehmood Cheema urged […]
Are your beliefs that hollow? From Major Mahmud (1948) to Master Qudoos (2012)
Pakistan Today: By:Waqqas Mir: The year is 1948. Major Mahmud, an Ahmadi, is murdered in a manner described by the 1954 Justice Munir Report as “singularly brutal.” He is an army […]
Easter At The Mosque: Sacramento Muslims Lend Space To Churchless Christian Congregation (VIDEO)
Huff Post Hundreds of worshippers in Sacramento, Calif., were able to celebrate Easter together this Sunday thanks to a local Muslim organization that let the Christians hold services in their mosque, theSacramento Bee reports. For the past 12 years, members of the Spiritual Life Center of Sacramento had rented out space at […]
The Great Martyrdom of Abdul Qudoos (Shaheed): A Failed Conspiracy to Eliminate Ahmadiyya Muslim Minority In Pakistan
Alislam.org: In his Friday Sermon of 6th April 2012, the Imam of World Wide Ahmadiyya Movement narrated the actual events that led to the brutal muder (martyrdom) of Master Abdul […]
“BACKS FAITH WITH HIS LIFE” NY Times Article Dec 3, 1899
BACKS FAITH WITH HIS LIFE.; East Indian Wants to Prove Mohammed’s Greatness. Courtesy: The NY Times PM article on NY Times Dec 3 1899 Link to NY Times archive […]