Ahok’s purported crime was to question the political motivations behind an edict by Islamic conservatives that the Koran forbids Muslims voting for non-Muslims. Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk Source/Credit: The Australian By Amanda Hodge | November 19, 2016 As Jakarta’s Christian, ethnic Chinese governor fights for […]
Posted 2016-11-19 (AFP) — Cramped in a tarpaulin tent with his family of nine, Ali Mahmud remembers his spacious ancestral home in the northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa he last set foot in more than two years ago. “It was built long ago by my great grandfather,” the construction worker, […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – 12:24 A military vehicle of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service drives in al-Zahraa neighborhood during a fight with Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq Novemebr 13, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmad Jadallah/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Emboldened by machinegun fire on Islamic State […]
By AFP – Nov 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian demonstrators react to tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest against Jewish settlements in Jordan Valley near the West Bank city of Jericho on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Muslims in Israel and the […]
Nov 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Sofia Faruqi Ethiopia is experiencing its most severe political turmoil in decades. After months of escalating protests and conflicts that have killed hundreds of people, on October 9 the Ethiopian government announced a state of emergency. Ethiopia’s conflict is being driven partly by ethnic tensions […]
FACES OF THE WORLD By Rainer Roduner and Roland Schm Switzerland has 8.3 million inhabitants, a quarter of whom are migrants from 193 countries. One person from each appears in a new photo book, The Switzers, by photographers Reiner Roduner and Roland Schmid. For Roduner, who initiated the three-year […]
Mumbai [India]: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Saturday seized incriminating documents/files, electronic storage devices and about Rs.12 lakh in cash related to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). A NIA spokesperson said that in order to assist the search team, a team of […]
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/canberras-ahmadiyya-muslim-community–host-multifaith-peace-symposium-20161119-gst0et.html Stephen Jeffery A Canberra Muslim minority community has hosted its first inter-faith summit in the capital, calling for peace and understanding between cultures. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community, part of a South Asian-founded Islamic movement that arrived in Australia during the 1980s, held a Peace Symposium at Albert Hall on Saturday. Ahmadiyya […]
Source: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/lifestyle/religion/ahmadiyya-muslim-community-continues-to-serve-despite-fears-of-persecution/article_bb13b035-4881-594e-93a6-1720c525be88.html By David Frey Special to The News-Post Courtesy photo: From left, Shahina Bashir, Fauzia Rehan and Nabeela Malik volunteer at the soup kitchen in Frederick as part of their spiritual work. The women were more nervous than usual last Friday as they arrived to serve food at the Frederick […]
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis made his comments during a Vatican ceremony in which he appointed 17 new cardinals. Photograph: Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/Barcroft By Peter J Walker and agencies Pope Francis has said an “epidemic of animosity” toward religious and ethnic minorities is hurting the weakest in society, in a thinly […]
Source: The Guardian The Catholic church has doubled the maximum compensation payment to people sexually abused as children by clergy in the Melbourne archdiocese to $150,000. Abuse survivors who have already received payments under the Melbourne Response can have their cases reviewed to determine if they are eligible for additional […]
Source: Aljazeera Jacopo Ottaviani Photography and design: Isacco Chiaf The world’s forests, along with its oceans, absorb enormous amounts of the carbon dioxide that circulates in the atmosphere. They are, […]
Source: Aljazeera by Mary Ann Jolley The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in his 70s. Marriage and a baby quickly followed. But, three years later, the man died and Muklesha was again put up for sale. This time, her buyer […]
Source: Aljazeera A Malawi court has convicted an HIV-positive man who had confessed to having sex with 104 girls and widows in traditional “sexual cleansing” rituals. Eric Aniva, 45, was found guilty on Friday on two counts after a one-day trial in a packed courtroom in the district of Nsanje. “It […]
Source: Time By Errin Haines Whack / AP President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for leadership posts threaten national unity and promise to turn back the clock on progress for racial, religious and sexual minorities, civil rights leaders and others said Friday after his nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. Comments […]
Source: Time By Tessa Berenson Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end high-profile lawsuits against his eponymous and now defunct real estate seminar Trump University, the New York Attorney General said Friday, ending the legal controversy that at times dogged his campaign and threatened to force the […]
Source: Time By Matthew Daly (WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in […]
Source: Time (GENEVA)— Acknowledging Zika is here to stay, the United Nations health agency is lifting a 9-month-old emergency declaration against the mosquito-borne virus that can result in severe birth defects when pregnant women are infected. The World Health Organization is instead shifting to a longer-term approach against a virus […]
Source: The Economic Times By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury NEW DELHI: US President elect will approve a Congress bill to declare Pakistan a terror state when the legislation reaches him in […]
Arab Coalition fighting in Yemen has intercepted a ballistic missile hitting 65 km away from the holy city of Makka. By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, New Age Islam, 07 November 2016 Muslim leaders and politicians in India are busy in a crazy competition of organizing conferences, greater campaigns and processions to […]