Learning from the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim'
Source: philly.com IMAGINE IT IS Sunday, the day a law takes effect stripping American Catholics of their rights. Such a law disenfranchised German Jews in 1935. Fewer than 40 years after […]
USA: North East Muslim group condemns beheading
Source: itv.com A group representing Muslims in the North East has condemned the killing of an American journalist. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community North East has spoken out after Islamic State released video footage claiming to show the murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff. “The AMC completely denounces the shocking, barbaric and […]
Al Akhbar USA Publishes Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana News
Source: alakhbar-usa.com | Email: AlakhbarUSA@yahoo.com News report by Imam Shamshad Nasir Saheb, Missionary-in-charge Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com Read the paper online @ http://www.alakhbar-usa.com/Issue254.html
Feds launch probe of Ferguson police department
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the […]
Political bickering keeps U.S. ambassadors at home
Summary SUMMARY by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Talk about America’s decline is usually wrong. But how else would you describe a country that, in a world of exploding tensions, is unable to confirm dozens of ambassadors to foreign posts because of partisan political squabbling? The State Department […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (24) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, jazkallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
“Takfirism Is Not Just An ISIL Problem — It’s a Muslim Problem” by Qasim Rashid
Source: faithstreet.com I read with interest Salam Al-Maryati’s recent piece for OnFaith titled “Takfirism: The Key to Understanding ISIL.” While well intentioned, Marayati inaccurately relegates the practice of “takfir” to a problem of […]
"Takfirism Is Not Just An ISIL Problem — It’s a Muslim Problem" by Qasim Rashid
Source: faithstreet.com I read with interest Salam Al-Maryati’s recent piece for OnFaith titled “Takfirism: The Key to Understanding ISIL.” While well intentioned, Marayati inaccurately relegates the practice of “takfir” to a problem of […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim organize ‘Muslims for Life’ blood drive in Chandler to honor victims of 9/11
Source: eastvalleytribune.com | arizona.newszap.com A blood drive to be held Sept. 13 in Chandler is part of a fourth-annual national Muslim campaign to collect 13,000 pints of blood to help save 39,000 lives. […]
Bullish U.S. manufacturing, construction data bolster growth outlook
(Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing activity increased to its highest level in nearly 3-1/2 years in August and construction spending rebounded strongly in July, in further signs of vigor in the economy. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Tuesday its index of national factory activity rose to 59.0 last […]
Somalia’s Terror group leader’s fate unclear
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/09/02/newday-labott-u-s-somalia-operation.cnn Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted senior leaders of Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, but it’s not clear if the leader of the Islamic militant group […]
Somalia's Terror group leader's fate unclear
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/09/02/newday-labott-u-s-somalia-operation.cnn Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted senior leaders of Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, but it’s not clear if the leader of the Islamic militant group […]
U.S. Muslims Appeal To John Kerry For Protection On Mecca Pilgrimage
Religion News Service | By Lauren Markoe Posted: 09/01/2014 8:30 am EDT (RNS) Concerned for the safety of U.S. citizens soon headed to Mecca, 27 Muslim-American groups are asking the State Department […]
Minister of State, Tim Uppal, addresses Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at International convention
Source: news.gc.ca | newswire.ca Government of Canada highlights the importance of peaceful pluralism LONDON, United Kingdom, Aug. 30, 2014 /CNW/ – Tim Uppal, Minister of State for Multiculturalism, addressed participants of the Jalsa Salana 2014 International […]
‘Ahmadi Muslims’ Spreading their message of peace
Source: kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk By Mohammad Salim, President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, Leamington. Each day the news is filled with stories of hate, strife and conflict. In a year when we commemorate 100 years of the Great War and the incalculable losses it brought, it is a tragedy that we continue to live in […]
Canada Offerings: Let’s recognize hate when we see it
Source: edmontonjournal.com EDMONTON – Last month in Edmonton, a group of people participated in the Hate to Hope rally organized by Chevi Rabbit, a gay University of Alberta student who was […]
USA: The State Department appoint’s a new special ‘America’s ambassador to Muslims’
Source: washingtonpost.com Is there a tougher job description than Shaarik Zafar’s? As the State Department’s new special representative for Muslim communities, the boyish-looking Texas lawyer is America’s ambassador to Muslims around […]
Japan’s economic revival is in jeopardy
HONG KONG (CNNMoney) The clock is running out on Japan’s ambitious plan for economic revival as growth sputters and doubts grow over the government’s ability to deliver key reforms. Abenomics — a massive bond-buying campaign coupled with structural reforms and stimulus from the central government — has failed to lift […]
‘We’re Like Animals To Them’: An American City’s Daily Racism By Markus Feldenkirchen
By Markus Feldenkirchen spiegel.de As they pull up to the place where Michael Brown was killed, shot six times by a policeman, they sink to the ground and stare at a cross bearing his name. “I don’t get it,” says Jurmael, 22. He and Tyler, 21, live in the neighborhood. […]
U.S. second-quarter growth strengthens
(Reuters) – The U.S. economy rebounded more strongly than initially thought in the second quarter with a bigger chunk of the growth driven by domestic demand in a bright sign for the future. Gross domestic product expanded at a 4.2 percent annual rate instead of the previously reported 4.0 percent […]