Al-Walajeh – PNN – Palestine News Network – People gathered in Al-Walajeh village near Bethlehem Saturday night to celebrate the rebuilding of a family’s home that was destroyed by the Israeli army seven years ago. The family served coffee and thanked the crowd of around 60 people for coming. Sami […]
25 July 2011 BBC News More than 30,000 Muslims have taken part in an annual gathering in Hampshire to re-affirm their rejection of violence and extremism. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from 50 countries held the Jalsa Salana festival at East Worldham, near Alton. During the three-day event, the […]
Source: Qantara Open any newspaper in the UK today and the two topics that govern any discussion on Muslims are women and extremism. Unsurprisingly, writes Sara Khan, Muslim women feel these topics are inadequately addressed by Muslims themselves. Two British organisations recently decided that the time had come to take […]
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny launched a blistering attack on the Vatican on Wednesday, accusing it of “dysfunction, disconnection and elitism” in its failure to tackle clerical child sex abuse. His hard-hitting comments came in a parliamentary debate on a report last week which accused the Roman Catholic Church of […]
A new ComRes survey on Islamophobia – the fear of the Muslim faith – reveals that people think that the media is most to blame for whipping up a climate of fear of Islam in the UK. People are twice as likely to say the media is to blame for Islamophobia […]
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Source: Times of India. LONDON: The Scotland Yard may get its first woman Commissioner if Sara Thornton is chosen to replace Sir Paul Stephenson who resigned as Metropolitan Police chief following a phone hacking scandal in Britain, a report said. Thornton is said to be the early favourite. She is […]
The Vatican and Malaysia established diplomatic relations on Monday in the wake of tensions between Muslims and religious minorities in the Southeast Asian nation. The Vatican announced the agreement after Pope Benedict XVI met with Malaysia’s prime minister, only the second meeting between a government chief from the Southeast Asian […]
Source/Credit: /PRNewswire/ LONDON, July 18, 2011 30,000 Muslims to Stand United in Pledge to Counter Hatemongers More than 30,000 Muslims are planning to gather in the English countryside, raise the Union Jack and form a human chain during which they will re-affirm their rejection of violence and extremism. Each member of the […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Monday, July 18, 2011 British doctors have been warned not to make friends with their patients on social networking sites. The British Medical Association issued advice urging medics and students not to blur the boundaries with people they are treating or have treated in the past, […]
Source/Credit: CNN and Associated Press London (CNN) — Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested Sunday in connection with British police investigations into phone hacking and police bribery, her spokesman told CNN. She is being quizzed by police in London after having come in by appointment, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said. […]
Labour leader urges for new media ownership rules saying News Corporation chief has too much power in the UK Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch‘s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour […]
As graphic pictures were broadcast on television of mangled bodies strewn across roads, commentators were quick to blame militant groups with ties to Pakistan’s intelligence services, particularly the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The claims resonated in a city regularly traumatised by rush-hour attacks. The principal suspect in Wednesday’s bombings, Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT) […]
News International Chairman James Murdoch arrives at News International in London on Tuesday. (Reuters) LONDON: Ex British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday accused Rupert Murdoch’s News International media group of using criminals to illegally obtain information about his private life and of the shock he felt when it published […]
The average age of its members is now 61 and by 2020 a “crisis” of “natural wastage” will lead to their numbers falling “through the floor”, the Church’s national assembly was told. The Church was compared to a company “impeccably” managing itself into failure, during exchanges at the General Synod […]
Plans to spend over £1m redeveloping a Southfields mosque may be approved by Wandsworth Council on Thursday despite strong opposition from neighbours. Erected in 1926 The Fazl Mosque, also called the London Mosque, on Gressenhall Road, is the oldest purpose built Ahmadiyya mosque in the UK and has been the […]
With Gaddafi as determined as ever to cling to power in Libya, tensions between Nato’s member states are becoming increasingly exposed. Four months ago, when David Cameron led the international call for military intervention in Libya, the general assumption within government circles was that Col Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, […]
Let’s hope phone-hacking scandin the UK will finally help rein in his evil empire Is this Britain’s own Watergate with consequences that could prove as disastrous for Cameron as they had been for Nixon? The prime minister may try hard to put up a brave face, pretending to be outraged […]
The Earl of Wessex greeted by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, International Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. HRH, the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward today paid a visit to the Fazl Mosque in South West London. The Fazl Mosque, commonly known as the ‘London Mosque’ is owned by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and is London’s oldest […]
جسم کے اندر رکھنے والے بم سے نیا خطرہ The US has warned airlines of a potential threat from militants surgically implanting explosives. It came after the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to security officials and foreign counterparts alerting them to the threat of “body packing”. No specific […]