By Gaby Ochsenbein FEB 10, 2016 – 11:00 Opinions are divided over whether students should be allowed to pray in state schools (Keystone) The decision to make prayer rooms available for Muslims in two Swiss state schools is viewed by some as a pragmatic solution. Others believe prayer rooms have […]
ALI IBRAHIM Published — Thursday 11 February 2016 Fighters from Chechnya are on both sides of the conflict; on one side they guide Russian aircraft to their targets and on the other they fight Daesh extremists in Syria and Iraq to participate in their absurd war, which has damaged the […]
By AFP – Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians check the rubble of their house after it was demolished by Israeli authorities on Wednesday in the West Bank village of Jeftlek, in the Jordan Valley near Jericho. Israel often demolishes buildings constructed without the required Israeli permits in Area […]
By Omar Obeidat – Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour meets with journalists and chief editors of local dailies at the Prime Ministry on Wednesday (Petra photo) AMMAN – The government on Wednesday said that allowing Syrians to join the labour market would not “by any […]
Women welcome at a Saudi Arabia Starbucks shop after temporary ban By Henry Hanks, CNN: February 8, 2016 (CNN)To the Western world, it’s a surprising thing to see. Until very recently, one Starbucks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, had a sign with the phrase, “Please no entrance for ladies.” The sign […]
Feb 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkey is using the ongoing build-up of Syrians fleeing fighting around Aleppo, on the Syrian side of its border to achieve three objectives. The immediate objective is to maintain Ankara’s recently adopted policy of allowing Syrians to enter Turkey only if they […]
Feb 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Fausto Fernández Borge The history of civilisation shows to what extent, ever since Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, approximately 150,000-200,000 years ago, this exceptional being has been intrinsically universalistic: namely, one who is willing to set aside personal or familial interests in favour of cooperation […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! be strict in observing justice, and be witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or against parents and kindred. Whether he be rich […]
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) For the first time in 450 years, a citadel of Protestant worship in England — the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace — echoed to the sound […]
“Thank You Japan” Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan send its best wishes at the occasion of National Foundation Day of Japan. Mr Anees Ahmad Nadeem Imam & President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan said : We thanks to Allah Almighty who has blessed us with such a great and peaceful country to […]
Bait-ul-Ahad,the Japan Mosque will be holding an open day and peace seminar to allow people to ask any misunderstanding or questions they have about Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan […]
Malloy, Obama visit mosques, and you’re invited to do the same Source: ctviewpoints.org Zahir Mannan Zahir Mannan leads a weekly Holy Quran study group at Baitul Aman “House of Peace” […]
More info: http://www.pressahmadiyya.com/ Follow us: https://twitter.com/Ahmadiy… Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad’s life in the eyes of World leaders: Nancy Pelosi, Minority House Leader US Congress Barack Obama, US President Boris Johnson, […]
Huff Post: As a Muslim woman born and raised in this country, some of my earliest and fondest memories were of me accompanying my mother, grandmother and sister (that’s three […]
Syed Intishab Ali | TNN | Feb 7, 2016, 08.32 AM IST JAIPUR: Solemnizing nikaah will no longer be a male bastion in Rajasthan, which got its first women Qazis on Friday in Jahan Ara and Afroz Begum, both 40.The Jaipur-based duo, who completed the two-year training from Mumbai-based Darul Uloom-i-Nisawan, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY RICHARD WIKE U.S. more likely to say torture can be justified. Around the world, public opinion is divided about whether government-sponsored torture can ever be […]
Source: Al Jazeera A woman will lead the United Arab Emirates’ attempt to secure happiness for its citizens after being named the country’s first ever minister of state for happiness. […]
Source: Pew Research Centre Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to justify their actions Half of Americans say the next president should be careful not to criticize Islam as a whole when speaking about Islamic extremists, while four-in-ten want the next president […]