Messiah has come to promote peace. -Imam Shamshad. Report by: Nadeem Raza Chicago Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chicago West (North & South) celebrated Masih Moud Day on March 20th 2016. A good gathering of the people from the community attended this event. The program comprised of recitation and English translation […]
“The religion of Islam which doesn’t permit to waste water, how that religion can permit shedding blood?” -Imam Shamshad A. Nasir (Chicgo) Belgium, a symbol of love, respect and peace in the European world, has been attacked by ISIS. Death toll has reached 31 while 300 people got injured. Such […]
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Source: Huffington Post LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities launched a hunt on Monday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that […]
Source: Aljazeera The 2016 presidential election in the United States may lead to a sea change in foreign policy. Each of the five main Republican and Democratic candidates have their own opinions on how to handle issues from Israel/Palestine to relations with Russia. The way the next US president […]
Source: Aljazeera Thousands of protesters have clashed with police near parliament in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the execution of a man charged with murdering a governor for his criticism […]
Source: The Guardian By Rose Hackman Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward […]
Source: The Guardian Prominent members of Glasgow’s Muslim community have called for calm and solidarity following the fatal stabbing of a shopkeeper whose messages of interfaith harmony united his multicultural […]
Source: The Guardian Britain is a Christian country, David Cameron has taken to asserting each Easter. In terms of sheer numbers, this is not true. There are more people who […]
France’s Oedipal Islamist Complex http://foreignpolicy.com/: France is at war! Perhaps. But against whom or what? Last November, when the Islamic State staged the shootings that killed 130 in Paris, it did not send Syrians. A year ago, when al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula purportedly ordered the deadly attack on […]
Russia-Insider.com: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 address to a number of high profile members of the UK government including cabinet minister Justine Greening, London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and former attorney general […]
Washington Post: The promise of the “global war on terror” was that “it was better to fight them there than here.” That promise brought mass violence to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and Somalia — in the name of peace in the West. That formula has clearly failed. Tuesday’s bombings in […]
Aljazeera: A year on from the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in Yemen and five years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, what is Saudi Arabia’s endgame? In this week’s UpFront, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations, to […]
Economist: THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least 39 movies had already taken on the subject. Many treat Jesus specifically as Christ, […]
By Sophia Saifi, CNN Updated 6:51 PM ET, Sun March 27, 2016 | Video Source: CNN (CNN)A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Easter Sunday, saying it intentionally targeted Christians. The suicide blast in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 67 […]
Intelligence Squared Debate The Catholic Church Is A Force For Good In The World Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an author, essayist, orator, religious and […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) By Sophia Saifi (CNN) A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has […]
By Mrs. Raheel Raza, Toronto Raheel Raza tackles Islamist extremists and what needs to be done in this feisty, no-holds-barred, post-Brussels analysis. clarionproject.com Following the Brussels attacks, I’ve been glued to mainstream media listening very attentively to political pundits, intelligence agencies, experts and analysts. Something in what they are saying […]
Source: RNS HOUSTON (RNS) For the last 12 years I have worked as an election clerk in my precinct, which has about 4,300 registered voters. I greet voters, confirm their registration status and send them to the booth. My precinct is about 4 square miles in size, so the […]
Source: RNS (Reuters) Governor Mike Pence signed a bill into law making Indiana only the second state to prohibit abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome. The bill, which was approved by the state Republican-led legislature, bans any disability-related abortion along with terminations of pregnancy […]