Conflicting signs are emerging in Washington over whether JPMorgan Chase’s surprise trading loss will spur tighter regulation on Wall Street. One of the banking industry’s main regulators appeared to indicate that it would oppose new efforts to rein in risky Wall Street activities, while other regulators emphasized caution. Still, a […]
A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following second world war precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. […]
A leading candidate running for president in Egypt has demanded the revision of the 1979 peace accord with Israel, calling the treaty a threat to Egypt’s national security. “I still […]
Written by Zia H Shah A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications […]
By Mariam Karouny, The Daily Star, Lebanon DAMASCUS: Syrians voted in a parliamentary election on Monday touted by authorities as a milestone of political reform but dismissed by the opposition […]
Dailytimes; Yasser Latif Hamdani: Much like Akbar the Great, the Mughal Emperor, Mehmet Fateh and Suleiman the Magnificent refused to give in to the whims of the Muslim clergy. Their […]
Hadith were collected after several decades or centuries after the Prophet Muhammad’s death. Yet there were hundreds of thousands of Muslims shaping and spending their lives after the role model of […]
Source: Spiegel International A group of radical Muslims attacked police in the German city of Solingen on Tuesday during a far-right demonstration, injuring four. They were provoked by the anti-Islamic Pro NRW party, which displayed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Officials had warned that the publicity stunt could spark violence. Radical Islamists attacked police in […]
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times / Metro News Banjar: Municipal Government (City Government) of Banjar, West Java, again sealed the Ahmadiyya Masjid Al Istiqomah on Wednesday (25/4) in Kampung Tanjungsukur, District Patamuran. […]
Indigenous People Want to Have a Say in What’s Happening to Their Lands Tobelo, North Maluku. In an open-air pavilion overlooking the pristine waters off the coast of northern Halmahera, about 150 indigenous people gathered for a forum on their rights over land and natural resources over the weekend. One […]
Rights group Amnesty International demanded on Wednesday that Indonesian authorities drop blasphemy charges against Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader displaced from his village in East Java’s Madura Island, who is […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany Spanish King Juan Carlos’ recent elephant hunting mishap in Botswana resulted in perhaps the most damaging political photo since US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was photographed in a tank in 1988. The image depicts the king, a patron of the nature conservancy group WWF, holding a rifle […]
Such challenges are not new in the religious history. Similar challenges were issued to prophets of God, in the past, by non-believers of their time. Let me quote the Quranic […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Egypt’s Presidential Elections Commission will exclude 10 candidates, including three prominent frontrunners, from presidential elections next month, a decision that is likely to stoke popular outrage across Egypt’s political spectrum. Farouq Sultan, a judge and the head of the commission, said Saturday night that Muslim […]
Nearly twice as many emperor penguins inhabit Antarctica as was thought. UK, US and Australian scientists used satellite technology to trace and count the iconic birds, finding them to number […]
By Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) 1957, 1973 edition Courtesy: Missionary Inam ul Haq Kauser The Resurrection was not on Easter Sunday! Easter is not a Christian name, but the title of the idolatrous […]
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) – The relationship between Jews and Jesus has traditionally been a complicated one, to say the least. As his followers’ message swept the ancient […]
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and […]
Dawn.com: When in 2009 the Taliban had taken over the districts of Buner, Shangla and Lower Dir, they had been some 60 miles away from Islamabad. But that had been […]