India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Qadian Celebrates Eid-ul-Fitr [Hindi Press Release]
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USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Eid ul Fitr celebrations in Glen Ellyn, Chicago
Report by: Azhar Ahmad, Chicago “Win the pleasure of God and serve humanity” – this is the lesson from the blessed month of Ramzan, said Imam Shamshad Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
Canada engages Bangladeshi officials after U of T student detained
globeandmail.com Canada is engaging with Bangladeshi officials concerning the detention of a University of Toronto student in Dhaka, according to a lawyer for his brother. A letter from Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion’s office, received by lawyer Marlys Edwardh late Tuesday, brought relief for the family of Tahmid Hasib Khan, […]
India: Salman Khan replies to women commission about ‘rape’ remark
By: Sandra Marina Fernandes Updated: Thursday, July 14, 2016, 11:59 [IST] Mumbai, July 14: Bollywood actor Salman Khan has replied to the Maharashtra State Commission for Women (MSCW) after it asked the actor to apologise for his rape comment. MSCW chief Vijaya Rahatkar told reporters: “Salman Khan has filed his […]
Diplomatic Council appoints German-Pakistani as Business Ambassador
Rabwah Times: The Diplomatic Council has appointed a German-Pakistani entrepreneur Jamal Ahmad Qaiser as it’s Business Ambassador and UN Commissioner. In a statement the Diplomatic Council said the 44-year-old was nominated because of his outstanding achievements and tireless efforts for international understanding. Qaiser, who was born in 1972 is a […]
KKK does not represent Christians, nor does ISIS represent Muslims
Source: Lancaster Online BY ELIZABETH EISENSTADT-EVANS Tempted to make generalizations about a world population of 1.5 billion Muslims? Please think twice, says Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown. “There are going […]
How Did the Six-Pointed Star Become Associated With Judaism?
Source: Smart News By Danny lewis By now, the six-pointed star feels inseparable from Jewish identity. So when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton with […]
Our response to terror must be reconciliation
Source: RNS By Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (RNS) A vortex of hatred is sweeping across the globe, from a nightclub in Orlando to an airport in Istanbul to a restaurant in […]
Inside ISIS: Quietly preparing for the loss of the ‘caliphate’
Source: The Washington Post By Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, the Islamic State is quietly preparing its followers for […]
Muslim group erects billboards designed to fight terrorism, Islamophobia
Source: Chicago Tribune By Vikki Ortiz Healy Contact Reporter A suburban Chicago Muslim group hopes two giant billboards hanging over busy Chicago highways will help to fight terrorism while also combating Islamophobia. […]
U.S. Reps. Frankel, Deutch on mosque polling site: Don’t discriminate LOCAL GOVT & POLITICS
Source: The Palm Beach Post By Eliot Kleinberg Boca Raton’s two U.S. representatives Tuesday appeared to support the use of a mosque as a polling place in the Aug. 30 […]
Obama in Dallas: ‘Joy comes in the morning’
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) As he has done 10 times in his seven-plus years in office, President Obama comforted the nation after a mass shooting with words of Scripture. […]
Is some thing Seriously boiling up in power corridors of Pakistan.
By Zubair Khan Following indicators lead to some thing fishy fishy in power corridors of Pakistan. 1. Posters and bill boards comprising pictures of current COAS with the request to take over appeared in major cities of Pakistan. Move on Party enacted these posters cum bill boards. Contact phone numbers also […]
Eastern Europe Must Grasp Its UN Moment
Source. Balkan Insight Among all criteria which may be of interest for the UN members, there is a strong international movement to elect for the first time a woman Secretary-General. That element in the complex election puzzle should not be ignored. The global trend in this aspect will have its […]
Senior EU lawyer backs French woman sacked for wearing hijab
A French design engineer who was dismissed for wearing an Islamic headscarf should have been allowed to cover her head at work, a senior EU lawyer has said.A French woman at a protest against the banning of headscarves in state schools. Photograph: Alamy In an influential preliminary opinion, an advocate […]
Assad Cuts the Last Road to Aleppo and Moves in for the Kill
Source. The Daily Beast ISTANBUL — Moving in for the kill, the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have taken control of the last supply route into rebel-held Aleppo in a combined air and ground campaign that has left well over 100 dead. It was a major setback for […]
Fraudulent geopolitical wars
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
The third gender
Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]
Death robots: Where next after Dallas?
Source: BBC By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News The use of a robot to deliver an explosive device and kill the Dallas shooting suspect has intensified the debate over […]
Muslim comics have a special purpose this year, and Trump is their punch line
Source: The Washington Post By Dean Obeidallah July 12 at 6:30 AM Producers of the Muslim Funny Fest have created fake “Muslim ID” cards for comics, a commentary on Donald […]