Anti-Donald Trump Forces Hope to Draft Mitt Romney
Source: Time By Katie Reilly Romney met with a #NeverTrump leader to discuss the idea of an independent run William Kristol, who has been a leading voice in the#NeverTrump movement, met […]
Letters From Mom
Source: Time ‘Thank You for Trusting Me to Love You’ By Tori Spelling To Liam, Stella, Hattie and Finn I believe love wins. I believe in backyard chickens. I believe […]
Facing my fear: my ex is bipolar. I was scared our daughter would be, too
Source: The Guardian First came the fear. Then came the bat. I realize it’s usually the other way around, but there are some fears not easily dispensed with – the […]
Sadiq Khan accuses Cameron of taking tactics ‘from Trump playbook’
Source: The Guardian By Toby Helm Observer political editor Sadiq Khan, the new Labour mayor of London, has launched an extraordinary attack on David Cameron and his defeated opponent, Zac Goldsmith, […]
Harvard to ban members of single-sex clubs from student leadership roles
Source: The Guardian By Alan Yuhas Harvard University will bar members of single-sex clubs, fraternities and sororities from fellowships and leadership roles on campus, college presidentDrew Gilpin Faust announced on Friday, […]
Canadian Muslim Community Mobilizes to Aid Fort McMurray Wildfire Evacuees
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at holds special prayer for all those suffering from the wildfire crisis in Fort McMurray, Alberta The mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at in Edmonton, as well as […]
Tackling anti-Ahmadiyya bigotry isn’t a job for the MCB – they’re part of the problem
Source: Double Bind. Back in 1974, under pressure from extremists, Pakistan’s secularist government enacted laws declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim. Islamists had long agitated against Ahmadiyya teachings, whose fundamental tenets include no violence and a clear separation of politics and religion. The theological debates around Ahmadis regarding the finality of the prophethood […]
Boxer Aamir Khan k.o. in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES: Canelo Alvarez defended his World Boxing Council middleweight belt on Saturday by knocking out Amir Khan with a vicious right hand late in the sixth round of their Las Vegas title fight. The 25-year-old hard-hitting Mexican dropped Khan with a straight right over a passive left jab that sent […]
Alberta fire double in size, moving East
By PAUL HUNTERFeature reporter thestar.com Sun., May 8, 2016 It’s called the Beast and as it scorches northern Alberta, leaving Fort McMurray a charred ghost town in its wake, there is nothing to indicate that 500 firefighters have been able to tame it. Quite the opposite. With its insatiable appetite for […]
Son of murdered Pakistani liberal outraged as cleric who inspired assassin is allowed to speak in UK
Source: International Business Times By Tom Porter The son of a liberal Pakistani politician murdered for his moderate views has criticised Home Secretary Theresa May for allowing a radical Islamist […]
Former Nazi Guard Expected to Break Silence at German Trial
Source: Breitbart Reporting by Elke Ahlswede; Writing by Joseph Nasr, editing by Ed Osmond A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany over accusations that he was an accessory […]
Government wages secret propaganda war to stop British Muslims joining ISIS
Source: Mirror BY MIKEY SMITH , DAVID HUGHES The Government is waging a secret propaganda campaign aimed at preventing British Muslims from joining ISIS . The Home Office defended the […]
There will never be a ‘perfect time’ to decriminalise abortion. It has to happen now
Source: The Guardian By Mehreen Faruqi Three years ago, New South Wales parliament came very close to legislating Zoe’s Law, a bill which would have given legal recognition to foetuses as […]
Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Japan’s 33rd Jalsa Salana at Bait-ul-Ahad, the Japan Mosque – A Report
(Includes copy of Huzoor’s letter / Message to Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Japan) The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Japan concluded its 33rdd annual convention at Bait-ul-Ahad, the Japan Mosque on 4th May 2016. Mr. Anees Ahmad Nadeem National President & Missionary Incharge and Mr.M.Uwais Kobayashi (1st Ahmadi Muslim & Translator of the Holy Quran) hosted […]
When Europe Loved Islam
Source: Foreign Policy: From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, […]
The Blame Game: Is Religion Truly the Cause of Disorder in the World Today?
[Our readers should note that the below address was given in August 2015—the current state of affairs in the world prove how the words of His Holiness have been proved exactly true—Ed] After reciting the customary Islamic invocations of Tashhahud[1], Ta’awwuz[2] and Surah Al-Fatihah[3] His Holiness proceeded to say: “Verily, […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community delivers Friday Sermon from Copenhagen, Denmark
Press Ahmadiyya: On 6 May 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered his weekly Friday Sermon from the Nusrat Jahan Mosque in Copenhagen, Denmark. During his address, His Holiness noted that it had been eleven years since his last visit to Copenhagen […]
London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New: 1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities
http://www.juancole.com: The press is declaring Sadiq Khan, victor in the electoral contest for mayor of London, the “first Muslim mayor of a major European city.” They mean of course, something like ‘the first Muslim mayor of a really big Western European city in the modern period (say the past two […]
Five places to find Islamic Hisory in the US
By Furqan Shaikh In the current climate of political rhetoric against Islam and Muslims, it can be hard to remember that the United States has always been a country that has respected and acknowledged the contributions of people, places and ideas from outside its borders. While we often think of […]
Even desert city Dubai imports its sand. This is why
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam Sand. We take it for granted. From deserts to beaches to children’s playgrounds, it seems ubiquitous. Yet the abundant resource is feeding a global land grab that’s even bred a sand-smuggling underworld. I was shocked that people would fight for sand. While researching beach erosion […]