Source: India New England News: WALTHAM, MA–Muslims from over 70 chapters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community across the nation will convene at Capitol Hill this weekend to brief over 200 Congressional offices in Washington, DC. Nasir M. Rana, regional director of public affairs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Greater Boston […]
Guardian: In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, amid the grief and rage that followed the toppling of the World Trade Center, President George W Bush did not declare war on Islam. “These acts of violence against innocents,” he told Americans in the week after 3,000 people […]
Our Source: Swiss Info Reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Andrea Shalal; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber MUNICH (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen warned […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch 17 February 2017 Minors are among those applying for asylum. File photo: Federal Office for Migraiton A Swiss government pilot project expected to launch this year promises to improve care and accommodation for underage asylum seekers. In a written answer on Thursday to a parliamentary question the […]
SOURCE: ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2017 MP Arif Virani, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, speaking on behalf of the governing party in support of Motion 103 that deals with Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination. Mr. Arif Virani (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.): […]
AFP/Getty Images Broken Land Five years after the uprising that led to the downfall of Qaddafi, Libya is a failed state, torn apart by rival militias. ISIS is growing stronger by the day, and poorly armed makeshift militias are all that stand in its way. BuzzFeed News’ Borzou Daragahi reports […]
Epigraph: So show your love for the stranger or foreigner, for you were foreigner in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor […]
Americans Rate Jews Highest, Muslims Lowest On ‘Feeling Thermometer,’ Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post But views of both have gotten better A new […]
Source: Reuters International and Swiss Info By Luke Baker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said […]
HELP FOR VICTIMS By Isobel Leybold-Johnson FEB 16, 2017 – 11:00 A widespread issue – Moroccan women look at photographs of under-age brides during an exhibition in Rabat (AFP) When Jasmin D, a young woman of Tamil origin faced a forced marriage, she found support from the Bern city authorities. […]
For reading the full book, please click here: https://www.alislam.org/library/books/IslamsResponseToContemporaryIssues.pdf by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV. Foreword to the Present Edition Hadrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rh, the fourth successor […]
Source: Telegraph This is an old news from 2015 By Robert Tait, Jerusalem Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churches The leader of a far-Right Israeli group has risked arrest by apparently voicing support for […]
There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump’s […]
Stewart Bell | February 16, 2017 | HandoutA mob attacked the minority Ahmadiyya community’s mosque in Dulmial village, Chakwal. TORONTO — Rashid Ahmed answered the phone at his suburban home in Mississauga this week, which would not be unusual except for the fact that he is being investigated by Pakistani […]
BY NIMIRA DEWJI POSTED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2017 Carpets were probably first made by nomadic peoples to cover the earthen floor in their tents and to keep them warm. By the fifth century BCE, carpet making was a highly artistic craft. The oldest surviving carpet is believed to be one […]
Source: LA Times After a tense campaign marred by religious protests and phone-tapping allegations made by a former president, Indonesia’s capital will have to wait two more months to learn who will run the city of 10 million people. Incumbent Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as “Ahok,” will face a runoff […]
LOCAL NEWS VALENCIA WICKER PUBLISHED: 02/16/17 12:26 AM EST. Every Wednesday evening, the first floor lobby of the Rardin Family Practice Center is turned into a registration area for patients in need of free healthcare. “The motivation is to serve people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and from different […]
Source: http://wnyt.com/news/muslim-community-dialogue-aims-to-combat-stereotypes-about-islam/4401514/ Muslim community dialogue aims to combat stereotypes about Islam February 15, 2017 11:43 PM AMSTERDAM — “The understanding of the Muslim faith is not so good in the eyes of Americans,” said Dr. Hafeez Rehman, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Albany Chapter. For more than a month Muslim […]
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Source: BBC A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 70 people, police say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine […]