Lankaweb: by A. Abdul Aziz — According to our Press Department U.K., on 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. […]
Womennewsnetwork.net: by Shiloh Sophia McCloud Lewis (WNN) Santa Rosa, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: It was when I began to have images of women from around the world who are suffering flash before my mind, that the reality of the state of the world started ‘sinking in’ after my trip to the […]
BBC News: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has closed the G20 summit by detailing economic pledges agreed by world leaders. The leaders agreed to boost their economies by at least 2.1% by 2018, adding $2 trillion to global economies. Much of the summit focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position […]
Source: Media ITE By Eddie Scarry | 10:52 am, September 24th, 2014 President Barack Obama on Wednesday addressed the United Nations General Assembly, focusing in large part on the U.S.’s current battle […]
theguardian: by Gabrielle Chan — Multi-faith religious declare ‘We’ll love Muslims 100 years’ initiative to publicly support Australian Muslims Christian and Jewish leaders have rallied to support the Muslim community, asking members of the Australian public to join them in a campaign called “We’ll love Muslims 100 years”. Rabbi Zalman […]
theguardian: Giles Fraser — Since the second world war, we have got used to the idea that big war is a thing of the past. But no more. This is the third world war. And this time we are on its fringes. One word was conspicuously absent from Barack Obama’s big speech re-declaring war […]
Reuters | By Belinda Goldsmith & Olivia Harris Posted: 08/22/2014 10:13 am EDT (Reuters) – When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was […]
ceip.org: by Thomas Carothers, Lina Khatib, Marwan Muasher, Douglas H. Paal, Andrew S Weiss — The world can be an awfully dangerous and unpredictable place. As news was breaking that the United States initiated airstrikes against militants in Iraq, fears were mounting about the Russian troops amassed near the border […]
Huff Post: by Palmer Chinchen — The news footage from Ferguson is dominated by military-clad police with weapons trained on unarmed protesters. It looks like Mosul or Gaza, or worse, 1963 Birmingham. It looks like there will be more violence. It’s time to put down our weapons and promote peace. […]
theguardian: by Joseph Wakim — Many Muslim Australians watched with horror as their American counterparts were humiliated at Barack Obama’s annual Iftar dinner at the White House on 14 July, when he appeared with Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer. With Dermer’s tweeted support, Obama said during the dinner that “Israel has the right to defend itself […]
Pennlive.com: by David Wenner — Muslims who are firing rockets in the name of Islam are violating the principles of their faith. That will be a central theme of an annual American-Muslim convention that will take place Aug. 15-17 at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. The convention by the […]
Huff Post: by Dr. David Liepert — Up here in Canada, I’m a pretty popular Muslim, even though I’ve been defending Israel’s right to live safely and securely in God’s Holy Land for as long as I’ve been a Muslim. More important than that though — by far — is […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Simply open your mouth on Israel-Palestine, and faster than you can blink you’ll be labeled either a heartless Zionist or a Hamas terrorist. Both extreme labels are equally fruitless. If we cannot find a middle ground in dialogue, how can we expect Israel and […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Amaar Ahmad, Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Virgina Tech In this day and age, fortunately we also hear voices of reason that invite all nations towards peace. His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, has been inviting world leaders to resolve conflicts through dialogue. […]
Epigraph: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — The ISIS menace, the atrocities of Syria, the chronic violence between Palestine and Israel, and the current siege on Gaza are a sign of spiritual entropy and political immorality. The political immorality is clear from ongoing civilian casualties. ISIS is killing innocent Christians, 700 […]
The Economist — OVER the past 24 hours, senior representatives of the Catholic church have delivered some mixed messages about Islam. The leaders of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue issued a statement urging the two faiths to work together to ease human suffering, especially in war zones. “We thank the Almighty for […]
BBC news — Thousands of people have marched through central London to call for an end to Israel’s ground campaign and air strikes in Gaza. Protesters marched from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy in Kensington. A police blockade stopped them from gaining access. Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly and Hyde […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Some 15 hours into my fast in the blistering Virginia heat my head hurt–but it wasn’t a symptom of Ramadan. Rather, I found myself digesting The Times columnist David Aaronovitch’s latest piece, “Moderate Muslims — it’s time to be outraged.” Aaronovitch argues that, “there is no […]
Huff Post: by Dale Hansom Bourke — (RNS) While the violence escalates in Israel and Gaza, a movement is taking hold that unites Jews, Muslims and others in a campaign for peace. On Tuesday (July 15), a daylong fast is planned as part of a public effort to show unity […]