Source: The Guardian By Tariq Ramadan With Prevent, the government couldn’t be further from winning the fight against radicalisation The British government, like its European and US counterparts, has been struggling […]
Source: Religion News Service Book review by Kimberly Winston, who is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. (RNS) […]
SCroll.In: Under the shadow of the Alamgiri gate constructed by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb that opens towards the iconic Badshahi mosque and is now used as the principal entry into the Lahore Fort, is a small temple, a modest structure with a small dome on the top, a typical Mughal […]
My Reminiscences of Professor Abdus Salam by Hardev Singh Virk Visiting Professor, SGGS World University, Fatehgarh Sahib-140406, India Email: hardevsingh.virk@gmail.com In summer of 1972, after submission of my doctoral thesis in Marie & Pierre Curie University of Paris, I took a train to Sarajevo in Bosnia (Yugoslavia) to spend my holidays […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood in Rome It was a typical Pope Francis touch, and one in keeping with the extraordinary life story of Saint Teresa of Kolkata, as the Catholic […]
Source: The Guardian A year after the worst hajj disaster in a generation, Saudi Arabia is issuing pilgrims with electronic bracelets and using more surveillance cameras to avoid a repeat […]
Source: BBC Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, TV exit polls suggest. […]
Source: RT Italian politicians and the public are fuming over a “disgusting” satirical cartoon published by controversial French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which made fun of the victims of an earthquake […]
Source: Deccan Chronicle Lahore: A court has cleared all the 46 people accused of attacking a church and houses of Christians in a neighbourhood near Lahore’s Sanda police station over faulty investigation and prosecution. Reports suggest that the mob had attacked the Christian neighbourhood after accusing one of the residents […]
Source: The Daily Beast By JAMES KIRCHICK Hamdi Ulukaya is the model American immigrant success story. In 2005, the Turkish-born Kurdish entrepreneur purchased a defunct Kraft foods plant in […]
Source: Rabwah Times Karlsruhe, a German city close to the French border is hosting Germany’s largest annual Islamic convention this weekend. Over 35,000 Muslims are expected to attend the Jalsa […]
Source: Times Of India DHAKA: Bangladesh‘s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader and media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali was hanged on Saturday night, the sixth Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali was hanged in Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the […]
Source: Religion News Service By Martin E. Marty, who is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses non-Ahmadi guests and members of Lajna Imaillah on day 2 of Jalsa Salana Germany. On Saturday 3 September 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed an audience of more than 1,000 non-Ahmadi […]
Source: The Teaching Company By Professor Mark W. Muesse, Ph.D. Rhodes College The first of these 24 half hour videos can be watched online in Youtube. What is meditation? For thousands […]
theguardian: by Mazin Sidahmed — Nazma Khanam’s death comes just weeks after two men were shot in the back of the head after midday prayers, rocking the Queens Bangladeshi community The NYPD has no leads on who the killer is or what the motive may be, but many members of […]
Source: Time By Nikhil Kumar As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sept. 4, a string of top Indian politicians are heading to the Vatican to witness her canonization, underlining her popularity in her adopted home. Born in Skopje in present day […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Certain ingredients that are common in antibacterial hand and body soaps are no longer allowed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Friday […]
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Nearly 15% of land on earth is now protected, though some key areas needed to preserve biodiversity have been left out, according to a new […]
Source: Motto By Kate Samuelson Victoria Beckham has penned a powerful and sympathetic letter to her 18-year-old self, to accompany her cover shoot for the October issue of British Vogue. The mother-of-four reveals the insecurities with her looks and weight that she felt during her teenage years. “You are not […]