Source: Balkan In sight We are not terrorists and we love to share baklava [Turkish dessert] with our neighbours,” says one of the messages posted on Facebook by a Belgrade mufti called Mustafa Jusufspahic. Jusufspahic is among the few religious leaders in Serbia who use social media to communicate with his […]
Source:euractive.rs he Serbian government, opposition and Kremlin have all reacted to a statement by Prime Minister Ana Brnabić that Serbia, if forced to choose between closer ties with Russia and membership of the Union, would choose the EU. Analysts say that Brnabić is only stating what President Aleksandar Vučić thinks.Serbia […]
Source: Balkan Insight Ivo Josipovic, 59, whose presidency between 2010 and 2015 was marked by Croatia joining the EU and improved relations with the country’s neighbours, has told BIRN he is not satisfied with Croatia’s current foreign policy and its impact on the region. “Our foreign policy rating isn’t what we […]
Source: Daily mail An Islamic school that tried to suppress its critical Ofsted report can finally be named after a legal challenge by the Daily Mail. Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham was criticised for segregating pupils and keeping books in its library that advocated beating wives. Inspectors said the state-funded school […]
Source: ET A large green and white painting of Jesus Christ hanging on the cross was left outside the Hillside Islamic Centre in Long Island, New York on Friday. The Nassau County Police Department is now investigating the incident as a “hate crime”, reported Daily Mail. “A worker there had […]
Source: The Express Tribune A muslim man was stopped and searched in broad day light in London for wearing too many clothes. The man who has not been named was heading for […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: A top-level low-key meeting is underway at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad to chalk out the future strategy as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government struggles to deal with the emergent situation following the submission of a damning report in Supreme Court by a high-powered inquiry panel which […]
Source: BBC Russia is ready to expel about 30 US diplomats and seize US state property in retaliation for Washington’s sanctions, Russian officials say. The threat came from Russian foreign ministry sources, quoted by the daily Izvestia. Other Russian officials have made similar statements recently. In December the Obama administration […]
Source: The Local Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday compared the far-left and anarchist radicals who rampaged through the G20 summit host city of Hamburg to “neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists”. A hardcore of militants among mass demonstrations against the Group of 20 meeting had burnt cars, looted shops, erected […]
Source: The Local Have you ever been typing in German in a blaze of BLOCK CAPITAL anger, but been stopped short by the inability to write the next letter of the word SCHEI…? Help is finally at hand. At the end of June, the German Spelling Council decided to add […]
Reuters International JUNE 23, 2017 A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the […]
Mob Killings in India Over Cows By NEETI UPADHYE | Jul. 9, 2017 | 1:57 NYTimes.com Attacks by vigilante cow protectors are on the rise in India. The spike is driven in part by politics.
Reuters International JULY 11, 2017 Iraqi security forces walk along destroyed buildings from clashes in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (reuters_tickers) ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had identified a pattern of attacks by Iraqi forces and the […]
Source: The Local Raging street battles that marred Germany’s G20 summit have sparked a political fight over how Hamburg could descend into “mob rule” and why Chancellor Angela Merkel chose a hotbed of leftist militancy as the venue. Germany’s top-selling Bild daily was withering in its condemnation of the chaos […]
Source: http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/kolkata-251614 Speakers at a meeting organised by The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Kolkata urged parents to educate their children about the do’s and don’ts that need to be followed on social media. The meeting was held in a hotel in Central Kolkata on Saturday evening. Referring to the recent post on […]
Source: CNN Many scientists say it’s abundantly clear that Earth is entering its sixth mass-extinction event, meaning three-quarters of all species could disappear in the coming centuries. That’s terrifying, especially since humans are contributing to this shift. But that’s not even the full picture of the “biological annihilation” people are […]
THE United States on Monday called on Burma (Myanmar) to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Burma‘s Rakhine state. The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council established the inquiry in March, but Aung San Suu Kyi, the de […]
Source: http://koin.com/2017/07/08/trio-hopes-to-dispel-misconceptions-with-meet-a-muslim/ Trio hopes to dispel misconceptions with ‘Meet a Muslim’ They want to start an open dialogue with people who may not know any Muslims PORTLAND, Ore. (Pamplin Media) — Six months after his talk at Pacific University, Harris Zafar and friends bring ‘Ask a Muslim’ to Hillsboro plaza As […]
Source: CNN Qatar made a series of secret agreements with its Gulf neighbors in 2013 and 2014 barring support for opposition and hostile groups in those nations, as well as in Egypt and Yemen. The existence of the agreements has been known, but both the content and the documents themselves […]
Source: http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/businesses-donate-21k-to-grant-making-charity-that-helps-newham-residents-1-5096610 | By Harriet Elsmore Businesses have collectively contributed more than £21,000 to grant-making charity East End Community Foundation. The money will support its Newham Giving scheme, a fund for children’s summer activities in the borough. The contributions of Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, Clifford Chance LLP, Paddy […]