“Every departure from orthodoxy is not apostasy, although witch hunt is not the monopoly of any particular religion,” the late V. R. Krishna Iyer (Indian judge & minister who reformed the Indian criminal justice system). Source: indianexpress.com | southasiamonitor.org Written by Tahir Mahmood | Updated: August 17, 2016 12:45 am The White Minaret with […]
Source: Slate By Isaac Chotiner, who is a Slate contributor. Why Islam resists secularization, and how that continues to shape the politics of the Middle East. One of the hopes that […]
Source: Balkan Insight The announcement by Croatia’s interior minister that ‘false Serb residents’ of the town of Vukovar will be deleted from its population list, thus enabling the Serbian language and Cyrillic script to be abolished as one of its official languages, has sparked yet another rise in tensions between […]
Source: The Local A police special forces unit arrested a terror suspect in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, on Wednesday, state interior minister Dietmar Woidke said. More:
Source: The Local US presidential candidate Donald Trump has been on the attack against Chancellor Angela Merkel once again. The lies he told about Germany show how dangerous he is. […]
Source: BBC The attack took place on the Shchelkovskoye highway in Balashikha, 20km (12 miles) from Moscow.Police were investigating whether the men were from the North Caucasus area. Russia has battled an insurgency in the region since two bitter separatist conflicts in its republic of Chechnya.Separately, in St Petersburg on Wednesday, […]
Source: CNN Republican nominee Donald Trump drew an analogy Monday between dangers once posed by the Soviet Union and the more recent peril of Islamic terrorism. “In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism and called the USSR the Evil Empire,” Trump […]
Source: The Daily Beast Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has diminished the role of campaign chairman Paul Manafort and brought on Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon and Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. Bannon has been named the campaign’s new chief executive, and Conway will become campaign manager. According to TheWashington Post, […]
By Zubair K Khan According to International Print Media Reports, Indian Prime Minister Modi earned a unique distinction this weekend as the first prime minister in India’s history to raise human rights violations in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. He took advantage by mentioning some acts, carried out in the […]
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Press and Media UK 50th Jalsa Salana UK concluded by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The 50th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 14 August 2016 with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the […]
We’ll uphold Ahmadis ideal on peace, campaign against extremism— Theresa May Source: Vanguard, August 14, 2016 By Ishola Balogun, London Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa Mary May has said that […]
Source: Dawn By Hajra Mumtaz ANOTHER Independence Day celebrated, another round of frenzy that the citizenry has fallen into the habit of indulging in at this time of the year. […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: The United States continues to view the Kashmir issue as a dispute that needs to be settled by both India and Pakistan, says the US State Department, while distancing itself from India’s claims over Azad Kashmir. In his Independence Day speech on Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Sigmund Freud remembered all his life the disgust and bitter disappointment he felt as a boy of […]
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37098751 One of the UK’s most notorious radical clerics has been convicted of inviting others to support the so-called Islamic State, it can now be reported. Police said Anjem Choudary, 49, had stayed “just within the law” for years, but was arrested in 2014 after pledging allegiance to the militant […]
Source: RNS By Arsalan Iftikhar (RNS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a lengthy address at a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday (Aug. 15) titled “Understanding the Threat: Radical Islam and […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Castle Church door, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. has approved […]
Source: Bloomberg After 18 years and $1.5 million, the Islamic Society is still struggling to build its own place of worship. By Bill Donahue | August 16, 2016 Photographs by […]
Source: The New York Times By RICK ROJAS, LIZ ROBBINS, NOAH REMNICK and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers […]