Southern India hit by floods after heaviest rainfall in more than a century Rescue operation in place as floods shut factories, paralyse air travel and force thousands to flee homes in Tamil Nadu. theguardian.com A family is rescued from a flooded residential area following heavy rains in Chennai. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft […]
Europe’s oldest person celebrates 116th birthday in Italy Emma Morano, the second oldest person in the world, puts longevity down to leaving a violent husband and eating three eggs a day – two of them raw http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/europes-oldest-person-emma-morano-116th-birthday-italy Emma Morano looks at an old portrait of herself at her apartment in […]
To dispel myths about Hijab, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) has launched a nationwide campaign titled “Je Suis Hijabi”, or “I Am Hijabi”. It is to remove the misconceptions that […]
Reliable sources indicate Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary of Srai Alamgir near Jhelum was overpowered by few anti Ahmadiyya fanatics and were wounded by blades on his whole body. Details still emerging.
By Adrija Bose Huff Post: NEW DELHI–In a sharp attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor blamed the government for the ‘rising intolerance in the country’ on Tuesday. Addressing the Lok Sabha, […]
Source: The New York Times CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara […]
Source: BBC Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate – vital if it is to be used in humans to […]
Source: BBC Electronic toy and educational material seller Vtech has confirmed that about five million customers were affected in the data theft reported on Friday. They are from all over […]
thedailybeast.com: They slam Obama because he won’t say ‘radical Islam.’ But why won’t the Republicans acknowledge radical white terrorists? “I want surveillance of certain mosques,” bellowed Donald Trump to his followers at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend. Ted Cruz recently declared that it would be “lunacy” […]
Source. ET LAHORE: The complainant in the FIR, registered against the factory’s security in-charge for allegedly torching some pages of the Holy Quran at the Pakistan Chip Board Factory in Jhelum on November 20, says he had not witnessed the torching incident but had filed the complaint on the statement of […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]
Source: BBC Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children. The men were sentenced to death […]
Source: BBC Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announce the birth […]
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Ever Merciful “You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in […]
Huff Post: Recently, a bloodthirsty mob torched an Ahmadi owned factory in the Pakistani city of Jhelum. In contrast to Canada, where communities galvanize against hate, there were no rallies in defence of Ahmadi neighbours, and social media was ablaze with their “heresies” instead of condemnation of persecution. However, outside […]
Source: Pew Research Center Americans Especially Likely to Embrace Individual Liberties BY RICHARD WIKE AND KATIE SIMMONS Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent […]
Source: BBC Live Reporting By Pippa Stephens, Elaine Okyere, Harry Low, Josephine McDermott, Sarah Buckley, Neil Arun, Lesley Sixsmith and Jasmine Coleman All times stated are UK Thank you and […]
The pope took his message of peace to the Central African Republic, where thousands have died in clashes that have split the country along religious lines. Source: huffingtonpost.com Pope Francis ventured into one of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods on Monday to implore Christians and Muslims to end a spiral of […]
Source: huffingtonpost.ca The undersigned Muslim leaders and organizations, which include many who affirm religiously plural, gender equal and LGBT affirming safe spaces, call upon a coalition of Muslim groups to not only collectively condemn the Jhelum tragedy, but also make a concerted action to end the decades-long persecution of Ahmadis. Dr. […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Neatly nestled amidst the immaculately kept ‘Bahishti Maqbara’ cemetery in Rabwah, is the final resting place of Professor Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate and the first Muslim to receive the prize. The headstone marking his burial spot is a discreet slab of white marble, distinguishable from those around […]