August, 2012 Huff Post: By Omar Sacirbey (RNS) The Taliban in Afghanistan shocked the world this week (Aug. 27) when they beheaded 17 people, allegedly for the crime of dancing at a mixed-gender gathering. Which prompts the question: Does Islam forbid dancing? While Islamic scholars are divided on the answer, it’s easy to […]
(Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice […]
Malik Siraj Akbar Editor in Chief, ‘The Baloch Hal’; Author; Contributing Writer Who Benefits From Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Christianity , Islam , Pakistan , Pakistan Blasphemy Law , Rimsha Masih , Blasphemy Laws , World News Last weekend’s arrest and imprisonment of Rimsha Masih, an 11-year old Christian girl, by Pakistani authorities in the nation’s capital, Islamabad, on charges of blasphemy, is deeply alarming. The girl, whose […]
Charlotte DandoInterfaith Activist based in the UK HUFFINGTON POST My apartment is located in between three of the area’s most frequented bars. At 3 a.m. on a Sunday, I can hear the remainder of Saturday night’s revelers as they pass my window; singing, chatting and shouting under the street lights. […]
A German Rabbi has become the first person to face criminal charges after performing a circumcision. The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the […]
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Religion is becoming less important in people’s private lives in Switzerland, even among tax-paying members of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, two-thirds of whom are […]
Illinois Islamic School Targeted With Bottle Bomb In Second Recent Attack On Area Mosques Posted: 08/14/2012 12:26 pm Updated: 08/14/2012 12:26 pm 9 7 https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F08%2F14%2Fillinois-islamic-school-t_n_1775550.html&size=tall&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DEjqGhgylh8o.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!OgKRzknZ1ASAaEDr2w%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTMZtB6F10Jl9BMhSmuZWEaSbtAUBQ#id=I2_1345006766701&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&rpctoken=225627720&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart FOLLOW: Video, College Preparatory School Of America, David Conrad, David Conrad Charged, Morton Grove Mosque, Morton Grove Mosque Shooting, Mosque Shooting, Mosque Shot, Muslim Education Center, Muslim Education Center Morton Grove, Muslim Education Center Mosque, Shots Fired At Mosque, Chicago […]
Dawn: Editorial NOW it is the realm of television programming and advertising that has attracted the Supreme Court’s attention. Summoning the chief of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority in response […]
Source: Spiegel International A commentary by Matthias Matussek “It is this fundamental respect for foreign customs that we are increasingly losing.” A German court’s outlawing of the circumcision of boys — […]
It should have been over with Part 2. But Satan has really complicated the issue by putting so many lies. For example, there are, have been, and always will be several false prophets. So by the raising of such Prophets an attempt is made to disregard Prophethood completely and many do disregard the truth […]
Source: Huff Post By Chris Lisee (RNS) A 600-foot footrace was the only athletic event at the first Olympics, a festival held in 776 B.C. and dedicated to Zeus, the […]
The greatest weapon we have (and how indeed to get this message across) but the greatest weapon we possess as humans and that we neglect so much is the power of tears […]
. By Zubair Khan Contents and Photos by Naeem Nayyar. Head of Majlis Ansarullah Germany Ch Iftikhar hoisting the flag of Ansarullha and national head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany, Mr Abdullah Wagishauser hoisting the German Flag. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany is comprised of 3 sub organizations. Majlis Ansarullah, being […]
Even the most stone cold individual would spare a dime or two for the poor who beg and plead for money. How then can we believe that God does not listen to […]
Huff Post: by Imam Khalid Latif This Ramadan is unique in comparison to the Ramadans that came before it just as today is unique in comparison to each yesterday that we have lived and every tomorrow that we will see. As in years past, Muslims all over the world, myself […]
Credit: Christianpost via Wasim Sroya. Karachi: July 18, 2012. (PCP) Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC said here in a press statement that government is hatching conspiracy to introduce a term ‘Non-Muslims” in forthcoming amendment in constitution for increase in reserved seats for minorities in parliament […]
Source: Indian Express Fourteen-year-old Akbar’s appeal to the judge to let him remain with his Hindu guardian instead of transferring him to his Muslim mother has shot Aiku Lal Sandil […]
Source: Spiegel International An influential group of European rabbis on Thursday used unusually strong language to attack a German court ruling against the circumcision of boys. If the ruling is […]
Huff Post It is always hard when people die. No matter what the situation, it seems impossible to deal with the fact that someone you were close to will no longer be around. Although there is no one way to get over this, people have developed ways to make it […]
Happy wishes for Khilafat Day. Alhamdulillah, we, the Ahmadi Muslims are blessed with Divine Khilafat, that unites the Muslims of the world, living in different corners of the earth and speaking different languages…but united in one thread…thread of Khilafat. For the esteemed readers of MT, I am expressing my love […]