Kurdish saga
Oct 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi Judging by the recent events and developments on the Iraqi Kurdish front, it appears that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), under the […]
History tells us that nationalist referendums, like those in Kurdistan and the UK, never end well
Kurdish leaders before the referendum and Brexiteers before the vote in 2016 could paint their critics as unpatriotic. Compromise becomes impossible even when the alternative is to disappear over a cliff edge Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Iraq sends artillery into Kirkuk after taking it back from the semi-independent Kurdistan Regional Government […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Caliph, after Queen the most influential faith-personality in London
The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2017 – Social Pillars: Faith Source: Evening Standard The Queen Defender of the Faith This year, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British […]
World’s first floating wind farm starts generating electricity
Source: BBC News The world’s first floating wind farm has started delivering electricity to the Scottish grid. Five giant turbines have been tethered to the seabed about 15 miles from […]
Campaigning for NA-4 seat, JI chief extols Mumtaz Qadri’s ‘heroism’
Source: Dawn BY Ali Akbar Speaking at a Khatm-i-Nabuwwat Conference in Peshawar on Wednesday and campaigning for the NA-4 seat at the same time, the emir of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), […]
Feds secure rare hate crime conviction for mosque threat
Source: Associated Press By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates said it […]
Two months after explosion, Bloomington mosque leaders desperate for justice
Source: Star Tribune By By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune Leaders of an Islamic center in Bloomington remain concerned about their safety and desperate for justice, more than two months after an explosion destroyed […]
An Alternative to Burial and Cremation Gains Popularity
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH OCT. 19, 2017 Photo An alkaline hydrolysis unit at a funeral home in Windom, Minn. This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains using the method. CreditJoe Wilson What do you want done with your […]
Europe For Austria’s Muslims, country’s hard-right turn signals an ominous direction
Source: The Washington Post By Griff Witte and Luisa Beck October 20 at 5:00 AM BERLIN — A little over a century ago, the ancestors of modern Austrians were at the vanguard of religious liberty […]
Trump links UK crime rise to ‘spread of Islamic terror’
Source: The Guardian Donald Trump has erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in England and Wales to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter. “Just […]
Hundreds of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews protest army draft
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police arrested 120 people on Thursday during a demonstration by ultra-Orthodox Jews who blocked roads and set fires in protest at the forced […]
Assisted dying: Australia state lawmakers in 26-hour debate
Source: BBC News A landmark assisted dying bill has passed through the lower house of Australia’s second-most populous state after a marathon all-night debate. Lawmakers in Victoria discussed the voluntary […]
Japan: Christian Theologians visit Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Bait ul Ahad Mosque in Nagoya
News Courtesy: Imam Anees Ahmed Nadeem A group of students from the local theological seminary visited the Bait-ul-Ahad – the Japan mosque in Nagoya. Students were given a detailed tour around the mosque by Imam Anees Ahmed Nadeem. The Imam also gave a brief overview of the teachings of Islam […]
Suicide bomb in Kabul Shia mosque kills dozens
Source: BBC A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say. An eyewitness told the BBC the scene at the Imam Zaman mosque, in the west of the city, “looks like a frontline”. The blast happened as worshippers were gathering […]
I Am A Proud American Muslim Woman, And Arizona Is Ready To Send Me To The Senate
Source: Huffington Post By Deedra Abboud, who is an attorney and expert on the art and science of finding solutions, not fault – at work, at home, and in the […]
Obama and Bush decry deep US divisions without naming Trump
Source: BBC News Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of […]
Towering cross-shaped monument on public land is unconstitutional, court rules
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow October 18 A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a towering cross-shaped monument that has marked a major intersection in Prince George’s County […]
Quebec bans face covering in public services, raising worries among Muslims
Source: The Globe and Mail BY Ingrid Peritz Quebec has adopted a law that will force people to show their faces when taking the bus or borrowing a book from the library, pushing ahead with legislation that is being criticized for targeting Muslim Canadian women. Bill 62, which the Justice […]
Hamas must disarm to join Palestinian unity government – US
Source: BBC News The United States says the militant Islamist movement Hamas must lay down its weapons if it is to play a part in a new Palestinian government. Hamas, […]
Monument of love, the Taj Mahal, at heart of political storm
Source: Associated Press By BISWAJEET BANERJEE LUCKNOW, India (AP) — India’s famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm, with some members of the country’s ruling Hindu right-wing party claiming that the mausoleum built by a Muslim emperor does […]