Jerusalem: Turkey warns Trump against crossing ‘red line’
Source: BBC News Turkey’s president has warned it could sever ties with Israel if the US recognises Jerusalem as its capital. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such a move would cross […]
5 Christian Families Flee Pakistani Village After Teen Falsely Accused of Blasphemy
Source: The Christian Post By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter | Nov 10, 2017 7:16 AM (PHOTO: REUTERS/ATHAR HUSSAIN)A Pakistani Christian woman attends mass along with others on Christmas day at St Andrew’s Church in […]
Here’s What Is — and Isn’t — in the Travel Ban the Supreme Court Just Upheld
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan 8:08 PM EST President Donald Trump’s third iteration of the travel ban can go into effect while lower courts review its merits, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. […]
Here’s the Winner of the Reader Poll for TIME’s 2017 Person of the Year
Source: Time By TIME Staff December 4, 2017 Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has won TIME’s Person of the Year 2017 online reader poll, earning more votes than other world […]
Bill Gates: 5 Amazing Books I Read in 2017
Source: Time By Bill Gates December 4, 2017 IDEAS Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Reading is my favorite way to indulge my curiosity. Although I’m lucky that […]
Berlin art show shocks France with jihadist ‘martyrs’ display
Source: The Local A Berlin art installation dedicated to “martyrs” has prompted outrage by including one of the Paris jihadist attackers alongside the likes of Martin Luther King and Socrates, with the French embassy calling the display “deeply shocking”. The so-called “Martyr Museum” by a Danish art collective shows the […]
EU needs to project its power in Trump era in order to survive, says German Foreign Minister
Source: The Local Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday urged Europe to define and defend its own interests, warning that Washington’s retreat from the world stage may continue even after Donald Trump’s presidency. “The current withdrawal of the US under Donald Trump from its role as the reliable guarantor of western […]
Minority faith groups should feel their rights are the most secure in Pakistan: Supreme Court
Source: Dawn While wrapping up proceedings in a suo motu case pertaining to the preservation of minorities’ rights in Pakistan, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal, directed that the state make special considerations for people belonging to minority faiths at the provincial and federal […]
Darul-Qadha’a During the Rightly Guided Khulafa
Source: Muslim Sunrise By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Buffalo, NY Through out the known human history the root cause of decay and degradation of civilizations. No society can make any […]
Trump’s Lawyer Claims the President Is Above the Law
Source: New York Times By Jonathan Chait, @jonathanchait Republicans have tended to dismiss Donald Trump’s attacks on the rule of law as the naïve utterances of a political novice. When […]
Qatar to meet milk needs by 2018 amid Gulf crisis
28 Nov 2017 – AFP Doha: Qatar will be self-sufficient in milk by next July, thanks to blockade-busting cows flown in to boost supplies after some neighbouring Gulf states severed […]
GCC summit cut short by a day
05 Dec 2017 – 14:26 Kuwaiti and foreign journalists gather in the media centre hall during the GCC summit in Kuwait City on December 5, 2017. / AFP / Yasser Al-Zayyat Al Jazeera / Agencies Doha: A key regional summit of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has been […]
The rise of Barelvi politics could be a double-edged sword for society
Source: Dawn “Barelvis have been subjected to suppression for over a century and a reversal to this phenomenon has started,” contends Rizvi. “Though it will take time but eventually the voice of the majority will prevail.” Referring to Deobandi political parties, he notes: “We have learned a lot in the recent […]
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a dangerous gambit
Source: CNN by Aaron David Miller Having worked at the State Department on Arab-Israeli negotiations for the better part of a quarter century, I came up with more than my fair share of half-baked ideas. But the one issue I was smart enough to avoid — and I advised every […]
UK: Liverpool University Theology Students Visit Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Bait-ul-Atta Mosque
Report by Toby, National Outreach Co-odinater Pan African Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK On 30th Nov 2017 a group of 21 students and 2 lecturers – Mr Yazid Said and head of department Mr Peter – visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Bait-ul-Atta Mosque in Wolverhampton. They were recieved by the local […]
Anniversary: Ibn Rushd
Full name: Abū al-Walīd Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd Arabic name: أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن رشد Latin name: Averroes Date of birth: 1126 Date of death: 10 Dec, […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation says no compromise on Jerusalem
Arab News | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has deplored attempts to change the historical and legal status of the occupied city of Jerusalem. In an extraordinary meeting of the OIC’s Committee of Permanent Representatives on Monday, a statement was issued expressing […]
Travel agencies can now issue Saudi tourist visas
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH/RIYADH: Travel agencies in category D can now issue visas for tourists and for educational or medical treatment purposes inside and outside the Kingdom. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) in Jeddah has issued the first license allowing […]
Syrian boy wins Children’s Peace Prize for building refugee school in Lebanon
Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize on Monday for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children […]