Source: The Guardian BY Declan Walsh in Islamabad A prominent Islamic scholar has launched a blistering attack on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, warning that failure to repeal them will only strengthen religious […]
Source: Amazon Book written by Dr. Anna Lembke (Author) Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for […]
By Zubair Khan. LINK for German Jalsa Salana-2016 (Annual Gathering) LINK for UK Jalsa Salana-2016 (Annual Gathering) Note by Editor. Just couple of weeks ago Mr Davor Bernardic has won the Social Democrats Party election and now he is also the National President of Croatian Social Democrat Party. Congratulation to […]
Source: New York Times By Mustafa Akyol ISTANBUL — The cover of the most recent issue of Dabiq, the slick magazine that the Islamic State distributes online, shows an image […]
Guardian: The US Department of Justice is suing the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan, alleging it violated federal law in 2015 when it denied a proposal to build a mosque in the city. The 20-page complaint filed in US district court says the city discriminated against the American Islamic Community […]
Turkey’s Populists See an Unlikely Ally Source: New York Times By Mustafa Akyol ISTANBUL — The election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States came as […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post After a difficult year, these are the stories that give us hope. It has been a devastating […]
Source: The Local The man flew to Germany from Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia and tried to pass through customs on a fake passport. But when federal police realized he wasn’t who he said he was, the man applied for asylum for himself and his family.When the Federal Office […]
Source: Dawn THE campaigns preceding the Brexit referendum in Britain and Donald Trump’s victory in the US exacted their toll. In both countries insults to and even physical attacks on Muslims and immigrants followed. In December 2015, well before the referendum in Britain and the presidential election in the US, Prof […]
(Friday, December 16th, 2016 As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the fact that the Muslim world has failed the people of Syria. Even though many nations and organizations (especially the United States […]
The concluding address delivered by Hazrat Khalifatul Massih IV at the final session of the Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam at Islamabad (Tilford), England on April 7, 1985. This is an English translation of the above address. The original address was in Urdu titled Irfane Khatame-Nabbuwat. We […]
$20.00 Author: Iain Adamson Description: This is the story of an astonishing man. He leads a holy war to unite all the world’s religions under Islam. God speaks to him directly he says and guides all his decisions. When General Zia, back then President of Pakistan, persecuted his followers, he […]
Source: Indian Express The army and Rangers personnel have been deployed in the Dulmiyal village and other parts of the district to control the law and order situation. By: PTI | Lahore | Published:December 16, 2016 About 3,000 people have been booked by police in connection with the attack on […]
1. Muslim educational attainment Among the world’s major religious groups, Muslims have made some of the greatest gains in educational achievement in recent decades. The share of Muslim adults (ages 25 and older) with at least some formal schooling has risen by 25 percentage points in the past three generations, […]
Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Research Center global […]
By Holly Yan, CNN December 9, 2015 Fierce backlash over Trump’s plan to ban Muslims 02:11 Story highlights American Muslims have alerted law enforcement to more terror suspects than U.S. intelligence has Muslims are the most racially diverse religious group in the country This report includes facts and figures from […]
The Ahmadiyya leaders also expressed their opposition to instantaneous triple talaq and extended support to Uniform Civil Code for the country. By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: December 13, 2016 Thousands of Ahmadiyyas including those from Pakistan are expected to arrive at Qadian for the spiritual ‘Salana Jalsa’. (Express […]
Parliament passes immigration law it hopes will offer enhanced access to single market while giving residents priority over jobs, drawing parallels to Brexit arguments The SVP, the largest party in the Swiss parliament, accused the other parties of caving in to Brussels. Photograph: Anthony Anex/EPA Jon Henley European affairs correspondent […]
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU — CHAKWAL: Section 144 of the Pakistan Penal Code was imposed in Chakwal by the District Coordination Officer (DCO), Mehmood Javed Bhatti, in order to maintain the law and order situation after religious leaders announced they will observe Friday as a “day of protest”. The district administration […]
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters It was inevitable that the “interventionists” would use the tragic slaughter in Aleppo to retrospectively justify David Cameron’s attempt to win a parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013. The article by Kate Maltby (If you say ‘something must be done’ about […]