How much do top Mormon leaders make? Leaked pay stubs may surprise you.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK Mormons and others who wonder about the salaries of top LDS leaders got a possible peek at those numbers Monday, when […]
In final argument, Roof does not ask jury to spare life
Source: Associated Press By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof told jurors Tuesday that he could ask them for life in prison instead of the […]
Anonymous Bomb Threats Rattle Jewish Centers Across Eastern U.S.
Source: The New York Times By MITCH SMITH The morning rush at the Jewish community center in Columbia, S.C., had subsided when the phone rang on Monday. The caller, an elderly-sounding woman, “in a loud screaming voice kept saying there’s a bomb,” said Barry A. Abels, the center’s executive director. […]
The Obama presidency: ‘War on religion’ or ‘Amazing Grace’?
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) He had done it before, after Tucson, Aurora, Fort Hood and Sandy Hook: taken on the mantle of the pastor-in-chief before a crowd […]
Third of breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily, study says
Source: CNN By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News One in three women with breast cancer detected by a mammogram is treated unnecessarily, because screening tests found tumors that are so […]
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
Source: Amazon By E.J. Dionne Jr. (Author), Joy-Ann Reid (Author) A collection of Barack Obama’s greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. We […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim community organizes “Coffee Cake & True Islam” at Kirkendall Public Library, Iowa
“Islam teaches respect for all religions and their leaders, without Justice we can not achieve peace”, said Imam Shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Glen Ellyn Chicago. Report by: Mr. Edvin Bajrektarevic Coffee Cake and Islam events are taking place all over the USA. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has organized these […]
UK: Head and Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates New Baitul Ehsan Mosque in Mitcham, London
Source: http://www.pressahmadiyya.com/2017/01/innauguration-of-mosque-in-mitcham.html MONDAY, 9 JANUARY 2017 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates the Baitul Ehsan Mosque The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 7 January 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Baitul Ehsan Mosque […]
“Introduction to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community”
By Falahud Din Shams In the 19th century, Islam as a religion and Muslims as a nation were helpless. Muslim empires were crumbling all over the world. In the subcontinent of India, the Mughal Empire was brought down by the British. Islam was being attacked by all other […]
A Man Felt Threatened By My Book Written In Arabic
01/06/2017 Hajer Sharief Co-founder of Together we build it organisation, member of the United Nations advisory group on Security Council resolution 2250 & advocate for Kofi Annan foundation with Extremely Together Today as a young Arab/Muslim, I got the advice of my life when a middle-aged British man told me […]
India: Hyderabad Madrasa Empowers Girls with Course on Fatwa
Mohammed Wajihuddin Jan 9, 2017 HYDERABAD: Over a dozen students, all clad in Burqas, are in a small classroom. Their teacher, dressed identically, keeps a close watch. Everyone is on the floor while books on Hadith (traditions of the Prophet), commentaries on the Quran and tomes on Fatwas line the […]
BASHAR AL-ASSAD READY TO NEGOTIATE ‘EVERYTHING’ IN NEW PEACE TALKS
The Syrian dictator reiterated his pledge to recapture all of Syria. BY JACK MOORE ON 1/9/17 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is ready to negotiate on “everything” regarding the country’s conflict in proposed talks in Kazakhstan backed by Russia and Turkey. “We are ready to negotiate about everything,” he […]
The foreign problem
Source: Dawn It’s been creeping up on us for a while, but Nawaz and Raheel have now helped make it public.It’s not about personal relations with foreign governments — those are as old as the republic. And it’s not about enriching yourself through a shady deal or two — those […]
UK: Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Inaugurates New Mosque in Mitcham, London
The local Ahmadi Muslims must fulfil the rights of their neighbours and inform the local people about the true peaceful teachings of Islam so that any fears or misconceptions that they may hold about Islam are removed. Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Source/Credit: AMA – UK By Web […]
It’s harder than ever to teach Islamic art — but never more important
How do we talk about architecture and poetry in a time of misinformation and war? By Kishwar Rizvi January 6 Kishwar Rizvi teaches the history of Islamic art and architecture at Yale University. She is a Public Voices Fellow with the Oped Project. At prayer in the mosque, Damascus, Syria. […]
Dreaming of Europe: the last young man left in a Senegalese village
Life is lonely and humiliating for Goundo Wandianga, 21, whose friends and twin brother have all gone to seek their fortunes Goundo Wandianga in his village, Sare Bakary, where all the other young men have left. Photograph: Ruth Maclean for the Guardian Ruth Maclean in Kolda, Senegal Monday 9 January […]
Disappearances spark fears of crackdown on leftwing dissent in Pakistan
Four prominent online campaigners with anti-military views believed abducted since Friday Activists in Karachi hold a rally calling for the release of Salman Haider, editor of the online magazine Tanqeed. Photograph: Fareed Khan/Associated Press Jon Boone in Islamabad Tuesday 10 January 2017 Four social media activists with outspoken, secular and […]
Gen. (r) Raheel Sharif ‘sets three conditions’ to become commander of Islamic military alliance
by Hamza Rao | Published on January 10, 2017 KARACHI – Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has set three conditions to assume the command of a 39-nation Islamic military alliance, a retired army officer claimed. Talking to a private TV channel, Former Pakistan army officer Lt-Gen […]
Pakistan and the Rise of Barelvi Sunni Extremism
01/09/2017 Kashif N Chaudhry Physician, Writer, Human Rights Activist This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. “It was a mistake, and I assure […]