By Adam Taylor August 17 Mecca Laa Laa, center, is wearing a full-body “burkini” as she sits with other Muslim lifeguards at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach in February 2007. (Anoek de Groot/AFP via Getty Images) Along France’s beaches and swimming pools, there’s a war about how women dress. A number of French […]
Source: Pew Research Center Most Clinton, Trump backers favor stricter background checks For the past several years, large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans have favored making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks. Today, this proposal draws support from 90% of registered voters who […]
IANS/Islamabad- khaleejtimes.com Filed on August 28, 2016 | Last updated on August 28, 2016 at 07.04 am Pakistan Wildlife Department on Friday arrested a shoemaker who made Peshawari sandals with deer skin for Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. With years of experience and one of Peshawar’s oldest chappal maestros, Jahangir […]
Star apologizes to Toronto-area mosque for publishing wrong and misleading photo The Baitul Islam mosque has no connection whatsoever to a questionable study linking Canadian mosques to extremism. Worshippers take part in afternoon prayers at the Baitul Islam Mosque in Vaughan, Ont., prior to Canada Day festivities at the mosque […]
Source: The Guardian Police accosting a woman in a burkini on the beach in Nice. Photograph: Vantagenews.com BY Sanam Naraghi Anderlini So, after all the sound and fury, the burkini fiasco est fini. On Friday, the French courts overturned the ban, once again allowing women to wear whatever they want […]
Birmingham council ‘endorsed Muslim sectarianism’ against persecuted Ahmadi sect Education committee demanded Ahmadi renounce claims to be Muslims following sectarian pressure. Ahmadi Muslim men are pictured outside the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, LondonPeter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Birmingham education authorities buckled to pressure from sectarian hardliners and blocked a Muslim sect […]
Source: The Guardian A woman wears a burkini on the beach in Marseille, France. Photograph: Reuters Angelique Chrisafis in Paris A majority of mayors who have banned burkinis in about 30 French coastal resorts are refusing to lift the restrictions despite the country’s highest administrative court ruling that the bans […]
Panca NugrahaThe Jakarta Post Mataram | Fri, August 26 2016 Blood for humanity: Displaced Ahmadis donate blood in the Wisma Transito shelter in Mataram, Lombok on Aug. 26. They hold regular blood donation three to four times a year to show they care for humanity despite being neglected by the […]
Source: BBC Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of its Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said. Frank-Juergen Weise told the […]
Source: BBC A video showing a restaurateur in a Paris suburb apparently refusing to serve two Muslim women has sparked anger in France and calls for protest. In the video, […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community arrives in Germany Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels to attend Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived at the Baitus Subuh Mosque in Frankfurt on 27 August 2016. […]
Source: youtube.com/TrueIslam Question: Can Muslims Celebrate Birthdays (Does Islam allow organizing birthday parties)? Answered By Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra), fourth Caliph of Hazrath Mirz Ghulam ahmad Qadiani (pbuh) who is the Promised Messiah of all Religions / Maseeh-e-Maood wa Mahdi-e-Maood of Muslims Hazrath Mirza ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as) A video made by Abdul shafi […]
Source: Time Michael Beckel / Center for Public Integrity The 2016 presidential election’s most powerful super PAC is the one backing Democrat Hillary Clinton. That group, known as Priorities USA Action, has aired about 36,000 TV ads since mid-May, according to data provided to theCenter for Public Integrity by ad […]
Source: Time Lauren Chadwick and R. Jeffrey Smith / Center for Public Integrity The Pentagon has spent billions of dollars since 2001 funneling roughly more than a million assault rifles, […]
NAGEHAN ALÇI@Nagehanalci PublishedAugust 26, 2016 Great efforts are being made to destabilize Turkey. In one sense, these are endeavors made by various terrorist organizations and international powers supporting them to turn Turkey into the new Syria. DAESH, the PKK and the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) are attacking from every side […]
Turkey last Wednesday initiated the Euphrates Shield military operation aimed at creating a safe zone from DAESH incursions in northern Syria, from the Euphrates River to Afrin, currently in the hands of the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Since that day, Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army […]
By Ben Westcott, CNN August 25, 2016 Now PlayingThe enduring appeal of… Story highlights Giant pearl weighs almost five times nearest known rival It was previously used as a lucky charm by fishermen (CNN)One of the world’s largest and most valuable pearls was left forgotten under a bed for more […]
Sunday,August 28 2016, ANKARA AA photo The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has criticized the government for “going too far” in the implementation of authorities granted by Turkey’s ongoing state of emergency. “I remember [the military coups] of March 12 [1971], Sept. 12 [1980]. There was […]
ANKARA Female police officers in Turkey will now be able to wear a headscarf as part of their uniforms, according to a new regulation published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 27, expanding the scope of previous rulings on the much-debated issue since 2013. According to the new amendment issued […]