Reuters International NOV 22, 2016 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicola Benyahia’s teenage son slipped away one day to join the Islamic State in Syria, the frantic mother anguished over his disappearance for months while keeping it secret from her friends and most of […]
Source: BBC By Claire BatesBBC News Magazine Mandy was born with a disease that caused both her kidneys to fail After years of pain and dialysis, she has just had a kidney transplant Her mother, brother and two sisters have the same condition Mandy found out her two youngest children […]
Source: http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/events/Morden/1191474.Interfaith_Dialogue/ Interfaith Dialogue As part of Inter Faith Week the women of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Carshalton are inviting women of all faiths to an enlightening evening at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, Surrey on friday 18 November 2016. Inter Faith week promotes mutual understanding and awareness of […]
Source: https://business.facebook.com/EdinburghPoliceDivision/posts/1784808675108640 Edinburgh Police Division added 8 new photos. We attended at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Edinburgh and Fife Peace Conference on Saturday. Together with colleagues from the fire service and other partners, our Safer Communities and local policing officers were privileged to attend such an event. Dr Abdul Hayee, president […]
theguardian: by Alan Travis — Supremacists will thrive, says Liam Byrne, unless government sees that grievance rather than god inspires many to violence Labour MP Liam Byrne warns against rhetoric claiming there is a clash of civilisations and a conveyor belt linking faith to extremism. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty A vacuum […]
Simon Jenkins A judge granted a dying teenager’s wish to be frozen in the hope she might live again. This decision was about the rights of all of us ‘This hope clearly gave comfort to a dying person.’ Storage facilities at one of two US cryonics institutions. Photograph: Cryonics Institute/Handout/EPA […]
Source: RT British Muslim leaders have called on Britain to declare Ahmadis ‘non-Muslim’, the sentiments were expressed at an event held in Luton.The event which took place at Jamia Islamia Ghosia was attended by Imams, Councillors, and Muslim community leaders from across Britain . The speakers urged the British Government […]
Source: The Guardian Labour MP Liam Byrne warns against rhetoric claiming there is a clash of civilisations and a conveyor belt linking faith to extremism. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty BY Alan Travis Home affairs editor A vacuum at the heart of the government’s counter-extremism policy is leading British Muslims to despair in […]
By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown November 16, 2016 12:47 GMT ………….. A Tale of Two Britains. I recently performed a show on Shakespeare and Diversity at the Belfast International Arts festival. Through some of his plays, I examined Shakespeare’s profound understanding of the stranger, the migrant, the dark skinned and non western “other”, […]
LONDON: London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday blamed a lack of integration between communities for fuelling the “divisive political forces” that led to the Brexit vote in Britain and the rise of Donald Trump. Speaking on the sidelines of a forum in City Hall with mayors from around the […]
Young Muslims from Surrey are raising thousands of pounds collecting for the Poppy Appeal. Over 100 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association have been out with collection boxes at places like Wembley Stadium, London Underground stations and Heathrow Airport. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) is the UK’s largest organised […]
Young Muslims from Hartlepool raise funds for Poppy Appeal Muhammad Ali Ahmad, Local AMYA Youth leader for Hartlepool with members of the community. Young Muslims from Hartlepool are raising thousands of pounds for the Poppy Appeal in Hartlepool. Youngsters from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) have been out in […]
The Pan African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, PAAMA, UK, is celebrating the 100 years of the AHMADIYYA Muslim Jamaat, Nigeria at the Baitul Futuh Mosque Morden, UK on November 20th as part of their contributions to the grand finale of the 100 years celebration in Nigeria coming up on the 16th […]
theguardian: by Richard Holoway — There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality Preaching to the converted: Graham Chapman in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, 1979. Photograph: Python Films/Rex/Shutterstock SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.’ That slogan was posted on London buses […]
Historic records show that at least 885,000 Muslims were recruited from across the Muslim world to fight for the Allies, and over 89,000 are known to have been killed. Research found that only a fifth of people are aware that Muslim soldiers fought at all in the Great War Qari Muhammad […]
Source: BBC More than one in four UK business leaders say employees have cut their hours because of the “high cost of childcare”, a report from the British Chambers of […]
by indy100 staff in newsUPVOTE Approximately six million soldiers in the UK were mobilised during the First World War, but millions of troops from overseas also responded to the call to arms. These are some of the countries that contributed to the British war effort. Source: ICM Research and British […]
CHEAPER CHOCOLATE By Anand Chandrasekhar NOV 8, 2016 – Toblerones come in a variety of sizes from 8g to 4.5kg (Keystone) The introduction of lighter, more affordable versions of the Swiss-made chocolate for the British market has sparked indignation in the UK. Swiss versions will remain unchanged. Mondelēz International, an […]
Source: BBC Teenage opener Haseeb Hameed will make his England debut against India in the opening Test in Rajkot on Wednesday. The match will go ahead despite the Board of […]
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan Education correspondent The Prince of Wales, on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, has warned of the deliberate destruction of “mankind’s cultural heritage”. Prince […]