Source: Pew Research Center Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox […]
Source: AlJazeera Toronto, Canada – Donnie McKay keeps his phone close. A band councillor in Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake) in northern Manitoba, McKay never knows when there will be a […]
Source: BBC Is our Universe one of many? The idea of parallel universes, once consigned to science fiction, is now becoming respectable among scientists – at least, among physicists, who […]
Source: BBC The migrant crisis has put the EU – with its talk of continental unity and humanitarian ideals – to shame. Refugee misery. Asylum seekers’ agony. Chaos, friction and […]
Source: CNN By Bill Nye An Emmy-winning TV host as well as a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. He is best known to television audiences as “Bill Nye the Science […]
Source: The Washington Post On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By FRANCIS X. ROCCA and ELLEN EMMERENTZE JERVELL Updated March 21, 2016 3:14 p.m. ET With his disregard for protocol, outspoken news conferences and denunciations of global […]
Source: BBC At least 24 people in southern Pakistan have died from poisoning after drinking illegally-made alcohol, police say. A number of others are in hospital after Monday’s incident in […]
Source: Time President Barack Obama hailed “a new day” in the relations between the U.S. and Cuba on Monday as he spoke alongside Cuban President Raúl Castro following a historic bilateral meeting. “For more than half a century, the sight of a U.S. President in Havana would have been unimaginable, […]
Source: Time At least 31 people were killed and 190 wounded when three explosions hit Brussels on Tuesday morning, the first two at Zaventem airport and the third on a subway train near European Union headquarters. Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw called all three explosions terrorist attacks, and ISIS […]
Source: Pew Research Center Like a number of other ethnic groups in the Middle East, such as the Kurds, the Druze live in several different countries, separated by borders drawn […]
Source: Reuters A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of […]
Source: Associated press VRINDAVAN, India (AP) — Aruna Samaddar threw fistfuls of colored powder into the air. Blue and red and green, the cheerful colors settled on her white sari […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan offers its sincerest condolences to the Belgium nation. Imam Anees Ahmad Nadeem National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Japan said: “We are deeply troubled to hear about the back to back attacks in Brussels Belgium . It is appalling and utterly disgraceful that anyone would […]
by Louis Doré in tech Maalbeek underground, Brussels, 22 March 2016 (Picture: SEPPE KNAPEN/AFP/Getty Images) At least 30 people killed in terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday morning. Two explosions occurred at the city’s international airport, killing 11 people and injuring 81, while a third explosion occurred at Maalbeek Metro station, where […]
by Narjas Zatat in news Some People have begun blaming refugees for the attacks that killed an estimated 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday morning. According to Amnesty International’s figures, there are more than 50 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Refugees, by nature of their circumstance […]
December 6, 2015 by Qasim Rashid by Zahid Mian Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is a noted bigot whose mission is only to spread hatred of Muslims. He makes no bones about his hatred for Islam or Muslims. His stated goal is to prove that the violence committed by the likes […]
Suggested Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/intl-advertising-group-helped-whitewash-saudi-crimes# One of the world’s largest advertising firms has been accused of helping Saudi Arabia whitewash its terrible human-rights record, according to an exclusive report by the UK newspaper The Independent. Following the execution of 47 protesters in January, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir took to U.S. media […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says media should highlight peaceful teachings of Islam practiced by majority of Muslims. Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community says he is in favour of UK remaining part of the European Union. On 19 March 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa […]