By FAISAL BIN ABDULLAH BIN MUHAMMAD AL-SAUD, ARABNEWS King Abdullah’s initiative is aimed at world peace through interfaith dialogue Messengers of peace” is the message of Islam as well as other religions. Ever since the beginning of creation, peace has been the nature of human beings, despite the differences in […]
Immediate improvement was seen in tests measuring depression and hopefulness. A University of Michigan Health System study has found that attending a non-denominational spiritual retreat can help patients with severe heart trouble feel less depressed and more hopeful about the future. Heart patients who participated in a four-day retreat that […]
Credit/Source: The Times of Malta: August 03, 2011 An Italian parliamentary commission yesterday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft passed by the constitutional affairs commission would prohibit women from wearing a burka, naqib or any other garb that covers […]
source/credit: spiegel SPIEGEL Interview with Top Jesuit Priest ‘We Kept Quiet about Sexual Abuse for Too Long’ A bishop at a meeting of the German Bishops’ Conference in February 2010. Jesuit priest Klaus Mertes, the director of Berlin’s Canisius College, sent shock waves through the German Catholic Church in January 2010 […]
* Ahmadi Muslims Declare Jihad on Extremism. A Community that views jihad as a moral crusade to improve one’s own faith * Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Canada Breaks Guiness Book of World Record to Show Goodwill Towards Humanity * An Argument for Quitting Facebook * Israeli navy takes over Gaza-bound French ship […]
source/credit: Tribune The holy month is fast approaching and will no doubt approach in its usual fashion — in stages. That an Islamic Republic is so strife-ridden that it is unable to agree in unity on something as simple as the moon says much for the brand of religion it […]
Source/Credit: Tribune If the 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik had not published his 1500-page ‘manifesto’ just before embarking upon the killing spree that left 76 dead in Oslo and a nearby island hosting a Labour Party youth camp, there would have been a tendency to dub him as a ‘lone wolf’. […]
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – It’s turning out to be a banner year for nonbelievers. First came the publication of a secular Bible. Then we saw the birth of the first American college major in secularism. This week, it’s the launch of the world’s first academic journal dedicated to […]
Promoted post: Taliban morality police tighten their grip on Afghan women Strict: The posters warn passers-by that theyare entering a zone where Islamic rules, such as ‘no alcohol’, are ‘enforced’. ‘We want to run the area as a Sharia-controlled zone and really to put the seeds down for an Islamic Emirate in the long term.’ […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today called the verdict in a February mob attack in Indonesia targeting Ahmadiyah Muslims “troubling and disappointing.” An Indonesian court sentenced the leader of the attack in Banten Province to 5 1/2 months […]
Credit: Ahmadiyya Gazette USA يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ … “O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard against evil.” (Al Quran 2:184) This verse was revealed in […]
From: Asia Pacific News Jakarta – Indonesia drew international criticism on Thursday as a court handed down light sentences to 12 men convicted in connection with the killing of three followers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect. The court in the western Java city of Serang sentenced the defendants to between three […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Twelve men were sentenced on Thursday to three to six months’ imprisonment for various charges, starting from limited involvement to masterminding the riot that led to the deaths of 3 minority Ahmadiyah sect members in Banten. Three panels of judges at the Serang District Court levied […]
A famous, almost legendary mystic poet from Punjab Pakistan wrote: پڑھ پڑھ علم تے فاضل ھوییں تے کدے اپنے آپ نوں پڑھیا نھیں بھج بھج وڑناں اے مندر مسیتی وے کدے من اپنے وچ وڑیا نھیں He says that you have read scores of books to become a scholar but have […]
source.time magazie on line Sometimes the path to spiritual awareness runs through a Turkish suq. Nearly 20 years ago, my wife and I were carpet shopping at Istanbul’s vast Ottoman Grand Bazaar. One salesman, a clean-shaven Muslim youth, invited us to a Sufi do — not one of the whirling-dervish […]
By RODOLFO ESTIMO JR. | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: As part of the observance of the holy month of Ramadan, the Philippine Embassy will hold its 10th Holy Qur’an-recitation contest on Aug. 18. The competition will involve memorization of the verses from the holy book by Filipino children who have studied […]
Source:arabnews.com The Karnataka’s BJP government in India has tirelessly tried to show its innocence, when asking the state public schools to teach the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, for three hours a week, that these Gita lessons are not about religion but values. More:
Source: Arabnews.com Almost 10 years after 9/11, rift between Muslims and the West is as great as ever The findings of the US-based Pew Center which regularly survey opinions around the world on a variety of subjects are widely regarded as accurate. Its report published this week on Western and […]
Herman Cain said Sunday that Americans should be able to ban Muslims from building mosques in their communities. “Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state,” Cain said in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “Islam combines church and state. They’re using the church part of […]
An interview with Zaenuda Ikhwanul Aziz from the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Community (JAI) published by the Asian Human Rights Commission regarding the situation faced by Ahmadis in Indonesia.. How do you feel about what is happening to the Ahmadiyah community in Indonesia? We feel that we are being discriminated against, especially […]