Following petitions by Muslim women in the Supreme Court, there has been an on-going debate about triple talaq (divorce) and the need for its abolition. The dominant views on the issue are either by the likes of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board or the Muslim women themselves. It signifies two extreme positions; continuation of status quo versus […]
Ex-Tory chairwoman Baroness Warsi ‘quits’ Brexit campaign over claims of ‘lies and xenophobia’ – but Leave insist she never signed up in the first place Baroness Warsi’s high-profile ‘defection’ was greeted with bafflement Leave supporters could not remember her ever campaigning in their side Farage poster claiming migration was pushing continent to […]
Source: Asia Times. Although over 2 million Ahmadiyyas living in Pakistan follow the teachings of Quran, they are regarded as non-Muslims after a constitutional amendment passed 40 years ago during General Zia-ul Haq’s military regime. Today they are the most discriminated among minorities in Pakistan where police, clerics and courts […]
Source: Dawn.Com KARACHI: A 50-year-old homeopathic doctor, belonging to the Ahmadi community, was shot dead in his clinic in the Abul Hasan Isphani area of the metropolis on Monday evening. It is the second such attack in the same vicinity within a month, police and a community spokesman said. “Dr […]
Source: Religion News Service By Ruma Paul/REUTERS DHAKA (Reuters) Police in Bangladesh on Sunday (June 19) shot dead an Islamist militant wanted for the killings of several liberal bloggers and gay rights activists, a senior official said. The militant, identified as Sharif, one of the leaders of the banned group Ansar Ullah […]
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) A Muslim civil rights organization says that a record number of groups are spreading hatred of Muslims and have raised more than $200 million in funding […]
Source: Religion News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today, First Liberty Institute sent a demand letter to military leaders, asking them to apologize for assaulting Oscar Rodriguez, a decorated Air Force […]
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 20 June 2016 CHINA SPENDS MORE ON INFRASTRUCTURE each year than North America and Western Europe combined. That’s according to a new study published last […]
Source: BBC By Emma Young From Mosaic 20 June 2016 At the age of six, Jack Craven started telling his mother he wanted to die. “God made a mistake when […]
Source: Asia Times. Obama understood that a military attack on Iran – although he had ‘all options on the table’ – would have been a historic blunder. Obama was lucky in Iraq, since the Iraqi parliament demanded an end to the occupation. In Libya, he made the mistake of allowing the […]
Source: The Daily Beast. President Obama is expected to issue an executive order as early as next week that for the first time would call for the United States annually to disclose how many civilians it believes it has killed in its airstrikes against terrorists around the world, The Daily […]
Source: BBC By Matt Walker Ancient humans dined out by eating the massive heads of now extinct elephants. According to new research, people living in Palaeolithic times, commonly known as […]
Source: BBC The US Senate has rejected plans to tighten gun controls, including the restriction of weapons sales to people on terrorism watch lists. Four proposals were brought before the […]
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Sunday approved about $20 million in additional financing for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, […]
Source: ET A deranged, 29-year-old American man born in New York, to Afghan parents, killed 49 young men and women at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. During the killing spree, Omar Saddique Mateen calmly called 911, the emergency line, to declare that he had acted in support of the Islamic […]
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD | BY ASAD HASHIM Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday for selling shoes with a sacred Hindu symbol, police and Hindu leaders said. The shopkeeper, Jahanzaib Khaskhili, was arrested in the southern town of Tando Adam and the shoes, […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown The General Synod in London in February. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images At next month’s General Synod, the Church of England will try a new […]
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of the world’s Orthodox Christian churches have gathered on the Greek island of Crete […]
Source: BBC The authorities in Iran have thwarted a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital Tehran and other cities, the intelligence ministry says. The ministry said […]
Source: Dawn.Com It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect of nuclear annihilation? Only recently, Pakistan toggled between public outcry and terrified whispers when teeming mourners showed up […]