Callistasia Anggun WijayaThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Tue, December 13, 2016 | Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama sits on the defendant’s chair at the start of his trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta on Tuesday. Ahok is on trial for an accusation of blasphemy following his […]
Every person living in Pakistan should have a right to practice their own religion and the state should have nothing to do with it December 14, 2016, 1:34 am Umaima Ahmed Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born on the 12 of Rabi ul Awal. The Prophet is […]
And yet again, it is we who will respond with patience and steadfastness. We are responding with love, not hate December 13, 2016, 12:02 am/ 7 Comments SHARE : Jari Qudrat Dear Pakistan, I have lots of love for you. You raised my parents, taught them what it meant […]
Selected Sayings of The Holy Prophet of Islam [pdf 3MB] Forty Gems of Beauty by Hardhat Mirza Bashir Ahmad, MAra Read selected Ahadith from the book Gardens of the Righteous [pdf 15MB] And more Ahadith in Wisdom of The Holy Prophet [pdf 2MB] by Muhammad Zafrulla Khanra Sahih Bukhari (with […]
By REUTERSDEC. 12, 2016 DOHA — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman sent condolences to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday after a church bombing in Cairo, a supportive gesture amid reports of tensions between the Arab states over Syria’s war. A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral on Sunday killed […]
December 12, 2016 Hassan Javid When the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) raided the offices of the Tehreek-e-Jadid in Rabwah earlier this week, arresting nine men, it claimed to have done so in order to stop the publication and propagation of hate speech. The Punjab Government barred Tehreek-e-Jadid from producing any […]
DEC. 13, 2016 (AFP/Ivan Sekretarev, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two thirds of Palestinians believe the two-state solution is no longer viable and want Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to step down, a Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) poll revealed on Wednesday, as the public perception of the Palestinian situation remained […]
There’s nothing of their city left to go home to – but even if there was, those who fled the conflict still have reason to fear for their lives in Syria Isabel Hunter 8 hours ago 4 comments 16 The fight for Aleppo is all but over, and already voices are […]
Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money Robert Fisk @indyvoices Western politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s army has […]
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Jaweed Kaleem A group of teens and twentysomethings gathered in a nondescript meeting room at the Long Beach Convention Center, hoping for a chance to say a […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner December 12 at 10:40 PM Outgoing Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on Monday urged Americans, and specifically American Muslims, to have faith and […]
Source: BBC Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMohammed Ali Malek had denied being captain of the boat A Tunisian man has been found guilty by a court in Sicily of causing the sinking […]
Source: Time BY Simon Shuster / Berlin Merkel needs to hang onto power before she can fight Trump German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows what it’s like to be underestimated. Her political […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, San Francisco Scientists say they have a clue that may enable them to find traces of the asteroid that wiped out the […]
Source: Times of Israel. Trump said during the campaign he would tear up the nuclear deal, calling it a “disastrous” and one of the worst agreements in history and has vowed to take a harder line with Tehran.This has led to concern among the Iranians and in the wider region, […]
Iranian Women Sent To Prison For Not Wearing Headscarves On Instagram The search for incriminating photos on social media continues in Iran. As of last March, authorities launched an operation called “Spider II” with the goal of monitoring images published online. While Facebook and Twitter are banned in Iran, Instagram […]
Indonesia blasphemy case: Emotional scenes as Ahok trial begins Source: BBC There were emotional scenes in court on the first day of the blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s governor, a Christian […]
Source: Huffington Post By Hayley Miller; Reporter, The Huffington Post “When one of us is threatened, we all have to speak out.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called a spike in anti-Muslim […]
Source: The Guardian As well as an attempt to remove a student’s hijab at the University of New Mexico, books across the country have been defaced A spate of racist incidents has been reported by US librarians in the aftermath of the presidential election. According to data gathered by the […]
Source: CNN Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization claims that the timing of the various incidents and their “spacial trends” offer evidence of a pattern that is “consistent with military operations and not […]