Source: NBC News by MONICA LUHAR The California State Assembly voted Monday to pass a resolution that officially recognizes August 2016 as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. The resolution comes at a time of increased anti-Muslim rhetoric, according to a recent civil rights report compiled by the California chapter of the […]
The man who invented the ‘bionic eye’ ANJUM NIAZ — PUBLISHED FEB 28, 2016 06:32AM DAWN.COM http://www.dawn.com/news/1242055 L PRINT Mark Humayun A Pakistani-American has won the US highest award for technology achievement. Mark Humayun is to receive the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama. It is a “testament to American […]
Source: guardian.ng | By Editor | 05 August 2016 | 2:10 am The elders’ group of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria, Majlis Ansarullah has perfected arrangements for the offering of free medical services to Nigerians from today till Sunday, August 7, 2016 at Ogbese, Ikere –Ekiti in Ekiti State. […]
USA: Ted Hakey, Meriden mayor attend Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s national convention Source: myrecordjournal.com By August 5, 2016 01:25AM | By Mike Savino Record-Journal staff Ted Hakey, at left, sits next to Meriden Mayor Kevin Scarpati at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s 68th annual convention last weekend in Pennsylvania. Also pictured is Zahir Mannan, at […]
Source: August 5, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 Britain will deport a man its immigration services believe his life would be threatened if he returned to his home in Pakistan. The UK Home Office is to deport an Ahmadi Muslim, Ali Adnan Munir from the United Kingdom next week […]
Six minutes and one second. That was all it took for the 66 years of Khizr Khan’s life to become an American moment. It was not something that he could have anticipated. For years, he and his wife, Ghazala, had lived a rather quiet existence of common obscurity in Charlottesville, […]
File photo: Patrick Denker Women shoppers flout burqa ban in Ticino Published: 04 Aug 2016 09:31 GMT+02:00 The new ban against the Islamic face veil (niqab) and full-length burqa in the canton of Ticino is not being effectively enforced, according to reports. The ban, which forbids the attire in public […]
BLOCKED By Gerhard Lob in Como and Chiasso AUG 5, 2016 – 16:29 Not all migrants are allowed to cross the Swiss-Italian border (Keystone) More and more migrants who want to travel via Switzerland to northern Europe are becoming stranded in Como, Italy, just a few kilometres from the Swiss […]
The Syrian Democratic Forces have been fighting towards Manbij for two months Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Rebel forces backed by the US-led coalition are reported to be in “almost complete control” of a Syrian city after driving Isismilitants out of their former stronghold. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance has been […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS How we all reinforce a narrative of Islam versus the West Madiha Afzal Thursday, August 4, 2016 “Our way of life is under threat by Radical Islam and Hillary Clinton cannot even bring herself to say the words,” tweeted Donald Trump after Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National […]
Tribune: A recent report by the Hudson Institute paints a damning portrait of Pakistan as a country where its Ahmadi community is arrested for propagating their faith, has its places of worship destroyed over allegations of blasphemy, has its businesses and products boycotted, and its deceased’s’ graves desecrated with impunity. […]
parhlo.com: by Farwa — When you learn to survive without anyone, you can survive anything. This statement applies a 100% on the 18-year old Yusra Mardini- a Syrian Refugee who is going to compete in Rio Olympics 2016, an achievement that was unthinkable less than a year ago when she was neck-deep in […]
theguardian: by Lizzie Sharp — Fathers seem to be blissfully immune to the constant low-level anxiety that besets mothers ‘For my children, one still a teenager, 3am counts as an early night these days.’ Composite: Getty I am the mother of two young people, one still a teenager, who work […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Dozens of Black Lives Matter organizations jointly released a wide-ranging platform Monday spelling out standpoints on dozens of issues. On almost all of the issues — including education, food insecurity, criminal sentencing and policing — progressive Jewish groups heartily agree. But the new platform’s […]
Source: The Washington Post GINA KOLATAAUG. 4, 2016 The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it was planning to lift its ban on funding some research that injects human stem cells into animal embryos. The N.I.H. announced its proposal in a blog post by Carrie Wolinetz, the associate […]
Source: The Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Jail officials in Cumberland County, Maine, have a special protocol for taking booking photos of Muslim women who wear hijabs. They’re photographed twice — once while wearing a hijab, and once without. The scarfless photos are never supposed to be seen beyond the walls […]
Source: NPR By HANSI LO WANG Even if fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad doesn’t medal at the Rio Olympics, she is set to make the history books. Once she hits the fencing strip […]
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the US should debate deporting all Muslims from the country. “I’m suggesting we have a discussion about it. That’s for sure,” Paul Nehlen said on 560 AM’s “Morning Answer” in Chicago, when […]
Source: Time By Will Drabold A new poll shows Hillary Clinton jumping to a 15-point lead against Donald Trump in the presidential race. The poll, which comes after both political party conventions, shows Clinton beating Trump 48% to 33% across the country. The McClatchy-Marist poll shows Clinton with one of her […]
Source: Time By Daniel White President Obama rebuffed Donald Trump’s suggestion that the general election in November would somehow be rigged, joking that he’d never heard of anyone complaining about cheating before the game was even over. “Of course the election will not be rigged. What does that mean?” Obama said […]