The swedes ditching desks to work from strangers homes
Source: BBC By Maddy Savage 6 January 2017 It’s 13:30 and 28-year-old Mårten Pella’s smartphone starts pinging, a signal that it’s time for us to stop working around his living […]
Texas Republicans fuel new row with transgender toilet bill
Source: BBC Top Republicans in the US state of Texas have unveiled a bill that would ban transgender people from using the toilet of their choice. The Texas Privacy Act […]
Bangladesh police say leader of cafe attack has been killed
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Bangladesh police say a militant suspected of being one of the leaders of an attack on a popular cafe in Bangladesh’s capital that […]
Army: Soldiers can wear turbans, beards, hijabs
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) New Army regulations will allow soldiers to wear turbans, beards and hijabs under most circumstances, reflecting a change Sikhs have sought for […]
Marvin Hier says he’s ‘proud’ to be Trump’s inauguration rabbi
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency By Gabrielle Birkner LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Rabbi Marvin Hier has known Charles and Seryl Kushner — Jared Kushner’s parents and Donald Trump’s in-laws — for decades. […]
Trump’s spiritual adviser, Paula White, fires back at critics
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime religious adviser, Paula White, is firing back at critics who have called her a heretic and questioned her […]
Trump election: US ‘identifies agents behind Russian hack’
Source: BBC The US has identified the Russian agents behind alleged hacking ahead of the presidential election won by Donald Trump in November, reports say. The agents, whose names have […]
World’s oldest known killer whale Granny dies
Source: BBC By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News The world’s oldest known killer whale, affectionately known as Granny, is missing and presumed dead, researchers say. Estimated to be over […]
Ahmadiyya Women organised a Christmas party for the residents of St. Marks Court Care Home at in Gateshead
Source:ChronicleLive. Co.UK. On 24th December women of Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (Tyne & Wear) organised a Christmas party for the residents of ST. Marks Court Care Home at Gateshead. Food, including sweet mince pies, samosas, onion bhajis, cakes, halwa, were all available at the event, with the Ahmadi ladies setting the […]
‘TOLERANCE IS INCREASINGLY THREATENED’
Source: The Tablet Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, rejected theocracy at its foundation and adopted a state philosophy known as “Pancasila”, giving equal recognition to the major religions. Yet that is increasingly under threat, as local authorities collude with radical Islamist groups to force Christian churches to close, and […]
Returning Ahmadi villagers face social boycott
Source:ET LAHORE: Members of the Ahmadiyya community who fled their village in the wake of the storming of their worship place and a subsequent clash on Dec 12 have started trickling back to their homes in Chakwal’s Dulmail area. Upon their return, the Ahmadi villagers are facing a social boycott […]
Merry Christmas to the 300 million Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters; celebrating on Jan 7
This video is from 2013 Epigraph: Muhammad, thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is […]
PKK propagates, recruits at German university
KAAN ELBIR@kaanelbir ISTANBUL Photo courtesy: @1almanyali Sympathizers of the PKK, which is officially classified as a terrorist organization by Germany and the EU, made propaganda at the Technical University of Berlin on Thursday leading many to question their influence within German educational institutions. A banner with the title “Resistance means […]
I Planned to Destroy Islam, I Became Muslim
Source: Revert2IslamToday.com Sister Shariffa Carlos was being groomed by individuals in high Government positions in US to study, learn and then go to Egypt to destroy Islam by instigating the […]
The battle for the souls of Islam in Pakistan
The battle for the souls of Islam Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani Future historians of Pakistan will mark January 4, 2011 as a significant date in the history […]
Sura Al Ikhlas – English with short commentary
SOURCE: https://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1322®ion=EN GO TO: FOR MORE : COMMENTARIES ON ANY SURA: https://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/guide.htm?region=EN
How the USSR’s effort to destroy Islam created a generation of radicals
By Amanda Erickson January 5 A central mosque in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Pavel Mikheyev/AP) In 1929, Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin laid out his vision for Central Asia: “teaching the people of the Kirgiz Steppe, the small Uzbek cotton grower, and the Turkmenian gardener the ideals of the Leningrad worker.” It was a tall […]
Turkish tailoring company dresses up Vienna Philharmonics
ZEYNEP ESRA KOCA ISTANBUL The prestigious tailoring company La Misura, which has offered customized alteration services to high-end clients from Turkey and all over the world since 2009, has now added a distinguished client to its list as it prepares the hand-tailored frock coats, shirts, trousers, vests and shoes of […]
Myanmar accused of ‘whitewash’ as panel rejects claims it is persecuting Rohingya
Reuters International JAN 5, 2017 – A Rohingya abandoned house is seen at U Shey Kya village outside Maungdaw, in Rakhine state, Myanmar October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) YANGON (Reuters) – Human rights groups said Myanmar’s government is trying to cover up abuses against civilians in a Muslim-majority […]
Central African Republic Christians, Muslims unite to heal trauma
Reuters International JAN 5, 2017 By Zack Baddorf BANGUI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Blindfolds secured tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui. The occasional stumble […]