GM pigs take step to being organ donors
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightEGENESIS The most genetically modified animals in existence have been created to help end a shortage […]
Australia church abuse: Priests ‘must report’ confessions
Source: BBC News Catholic clerics should face criminal charges if they do not report sexual abuse disclosed to them during confession, an Australian inquiry has recommended. It is among 85 […]
Barnaby Joyce: NZ confirms Australian deputy PM is dual citizen
Source: BBC News New Zealand’s government has confirmed that Australia’s deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, is a dual citizen. Dual citizens are not allowed to run for public office under […]
Trump Evangelical Adviser: God Is Totally Cool With Nuking North Korea
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza A right-wing pastor who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board claims God has given the president “full power” to launch an attack on North Korea. Robert […]
New Book: Muslim Contributions to Sciences
A new book Muslim Contributions to Sciences by noted Canadian author Zakaria Virk is now available online (pdf) . Muslim contributions in the following disciplines have been discussed at length with pertinent diagrams and maps. Contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 Muslim Contributions to Opthalmology 5 Chapter […]
USA: “Islamophobia and its Effects in the USA”, by Imam Nasir of the Ahamdiyya Muslim Community Illinois
By Imam Shamshad A.Nasir, Chicago I have been living in this beautiful and great country since 1987 enjoying complete freedom of faith and conscious and above all free to practice all my tenets of my faith, Islam, here in the USA. I stand witness that my fellow Americans are great […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes in Love for all, Hatred for none as a counter-narrative to Hate, Extremism & Paranoia
Source: http://triblive.com/opinion/letters/12594460-74/muslims-freedom-too Yet another bomb attack rocks a mosque in Minnesota. Islamophobia is real and on the rise. This country guarantees liberty and justice for all with freedom to worship, the very reason most of us migrated to this country. This freedom is under threat. While integration is important and American […]
The Ahmadis of Algeria: Government’s most convenient security threat?
Source: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/the-ahmadis-of-algeria-the-governments-most-convenient-security-threat.511921/ | By Jacob Lindelöw Berntson Despite numbering in the few thousands, the followers of this Ahamdiyya Islam have been branded a major security threat by the Algerian state. Now, they are facing both a crackdown and a propaganda war. In the last six months, at least 70 individuals belonging to […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association SHORTLISTED NOMINEE for National Diversity Awards 2017
Source: http://www.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/ahmadiyya-muslim-youth-association/ Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association SHORTLISTED NOMINEE: COMMUNITY ORGANISATION AWARD FOR RACE, RELIGION & FAITH – Now more than ever, we need organisations who inspire, facilitate and give options to young Muslims in the UK. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) is an auxiliary body of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association’s cleaning program included in ‘Farnham-in-Bloom-2017’ film
Source: http://www.farnhamherald.com/article.cfm?id=122571&headline=Judgement%20Day%20for%20Farnham§ionIs=news&searchyear=2017 JUDGES from Britain in Bloom made their way to Farnham on Monday and thanks to a specially made video, got to see a snapshot of what has been happening throughout 2017. The 7.5-minute video shows an interview with Farnham Specsavers which has sponsored Farnham in Bloom. There is also […]
Donald Trump Signs Bill Funding Veterans Medical Care Program
Source: Time By Jonathan Lemire / AP Aug 12, 2017 (BEDMINSTER, N.J.) — President Donald Trump has signed an emergency spending bill that will pump more than $2 billion into […]
World’s Oldest Man and Holocaust Survivor Dies Just Before 114th Birthday
Source: Time (JERUSALEM) — Israeli media are reporting that the world’s oldest man, Israel Kristal, who lived through both world wars and survived the Holocaust, has died a month short […]
Lion rescued from Syrian zoo gives birth hours after arriving in Jordan reserve
ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUF, Jordan A lion cub was born just hours after its mother Dana was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan after being rescued from a defunct […]
Surviving America’s political meltdown
Aug 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralysed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread. If we are […]
Enjoy August – conspiracy theorists think it will be your last month on Earth
by Greg Evans in news If you believe in conspiracy theories, don’t plan anything for September. Or the rest of the year for that matter. Why? Because the world will no longer be here – according to conspiracy theorists. Yes, you read that correctly. They say the world […]
UK: We need to dispel the dangerous myth that it’s only Asian men who sexually assault young women
Yes Pakistani men are disproportionately involved in grooming gangs, and no, that is not a racist statement. Neither is it racist to say that when it comes to wider child abuse nearly 90 per cent of those convicted and on the sex offenders register are white men Naz Shah Just this […]
Pak-India nuclear war?
Source: Dawn What’s new? Two weeks ago, a terrifying report published in the Indian Express should have scared sensible people into asking hard questions. But no one paid much attention to it — jaded publics on both sides would rather tune in to the hottest political intrigue or celebrity gossip than waste […]
Roaring back
Source: Dawn Good for him, good for Nawaz. The tree of democracy must be refreshed from time to time with a jalsa or two. Too late for Nawaz to save his job, but at least something different to the dire, soulless stuff that had come before. Sadly, now that it’s […]
8 soldiers among 15 martyred in Quetta blast
Source: Dawn Officials feared the death toll may climb, as eight of the wounded were in critical condition. Condemning the terrorist attack, Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa termed it an attempt to “mar Independence Day festivity” in the city and declared that “our resolve won’t succumb […]
Trump — once again — fails to condemn the alt-right, white supremacists
Source: CNN President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Instead, the man whose vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, John McCain, federal judges, fellow Republican leaders […]