BBC: ‘Muslims don’t date, we marry’
Source: BBC By Sarah Finley Shahzad Younas came up with the idea for Muzmatch while working in the banking sector. The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about […]
Hate crime and religious persecution are on the rise – this is how we can stop it
Source: Independent It is only when people of different faiths, or of no faith, and from different backgrounds work together that we can truly overcome the prejudices arising from not […]
Charlie Hebdo and Christchurch: Two terror attacks, double standards
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ@mervesebnem Published22.03.2019 A placard that reads “give nothing to racism” is seen on a picket fence in Wellington on March 22, 2019, a week after the twin mosque […]
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman Blames America for Spread of Wahhabism as Petro-Yuan Beckons
Mar 30, 2018 In a sensational interview with the Washington Post, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de-facto leader Muhammad bin Salman has blamed the US and its allies for putting pressure on Saudi Arabia to export the extremist Wahhabi ideology during the Cold War as a means to counter the […]
Book Review: Extremism Is Riyadh’s Top Export
Source: Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia is fighting for a dangerous monopoly on Islamic thought By Farah Pandith, who is the former (and first) Special Representative to Muslim Communities a the […]
After New Zealand massacre, Ottawa Muslims weigh increasing security at mosques
Worshippers at the Ahmadiyya Mosque are on alert Judy Trinh · CBC News · Posted: Mar 23, 2019 People gather at the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill neighbourhood […]
Thousands of New Zealanders join Muslims in Friday prayers a week after mass shooting
Source: The Washington Post By Anna Fifield CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — It has been a week since a gunman spouting anti-immigrant hate stormed into two mosques in Christchurch, killing 50 people […]
Commission finds ‘little governance’ at charity accused of distributing terrorist literature
22 Mar 2019 News A charity accused of distributing leaflets promoting terror against a minority group has been found to have “little to no governance infrastructure”, the Charity Commission has said. Khatme Nubuwwat Centre, formerly known as Aalami Majlise Tahaffuze Khatme Nubuwwat, which runs Stockwell Green Mosque and exists to advance […]
Ahmadis to build a community Museum in Haifa
MIDDLE EAST RABWAH TIMES A proposal to build an Ahmadi community museum in Haifa has been welcomed by city officials. Leader of Holy Land’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Muhammad Sharif Odeh, put forward the idea during a meeting with Haifa’s Deputy Mayor. He said the community wants to establish a museum […]
Institutional racism and the rise of anti-Muslim attitudes
Prof Yasmin Alibhai-Brown et al urge the mainstream political parties to acknowledge and confront all forms of racism, Liam O’Keefe says we must resist anti-Muslim behaviour so as to avoid […]
Laila Lalami: ‘White supremacists target Muslims but the threat isn’t taken as seriously as other forms of terror’
Interview Hadley Freeman The Moroccan-born author talks about finding her voice, who gets control of the narrative and how it feels to be a Muslim in America today @HadleyFreeman Fri […]
London mosque warned over ‘kill Ahmadis’ leaflets
BBC.COM 21 March 2019 Image captionThe Charity Commission found Stockwell Green mosque had failed in its duties. The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles to overcome sectarian divide among the Muslims A mosque has received an official warning after leaflets calling for the killing of a sect of […]
Elderly Ahmadi released from Pakistani jail after blasphemy sentence cut
The 83-year-old was arrested after being accused of selling an Ahmadi interpretation of the Quran A file image of a minaret of the Ahmadi minority mosque in Lahore […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims in Regina invite public to visit mosque
Regina / 980 CJME Joseph Ho March 20, 2019 Imam Zeeshan Ahmed speaks to reporters at Regina’s Mahmood Mosque on March 19. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME) In the wake of the […]
Bangladesh: Shafi calls Ahmadiyyas infidels, urges followers to boycott them
Source: Dhaka Tribune By Monjur Hossain, Madaripur The Hefazat leader demands once again that the government declare the community as non-Muslim Leader of the fundamentalist group Hefazat-e-Islam Shah Ahmed Shafi […]
Abdul Shakoor (RELEASED) : Alhamdolillah.
Country: Pakistan Key Fact: 82-year-old Ahmadi manager of a bookshop and optician store Detained Since: December 2, 2015. Abdul Shakoor was released on March 18, 2019. Charges: Propagating the Ahmadiyya […]
A Qawwali Night At Nizamuddin: All You Need To Know
A frame from Rockstar (2011) of a Qawwali performance, Sway to the soothing melodies of Sufi music and experience a piece of history on your Qawwali night at the Nizamuddin […]
The life and times of a British journal of Islam
ANALYSIS The life and times of a British journal of Islam BY AMANDA LANZILLO 18 MARCH 2019 How ‘Islamic Review’ became one of the most prominent journals of Islamic thought […]
US criticises Pak for discriminatory policies against minorities
The United States on Sunday criticised Pakistan for using discriminatory policies against Ahmadiyya community and other religious minorities including Sikhs, Christians, and Shias. A country report on human rights […]
FaceOf: Princess Sarah Al-Saud, director at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
Updated 17 March 2019 ARAB NEWS March 17, 2019 Princess Sarah Al-Saud has been the director of maritime business development at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport […]