East European leaders argue as migrants pour across borders
By Reuters – Sep 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Afghan refugees struggle to swim ashore after their dinghy with a broken engine drifted out of control off the Greek island of […]
GOD’S Beauty and Beneficence
Review of Religions: This series sets out, in the words of the Promised Messiah(as), Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a summary of his exposition of four outstanding topics: ISLAM; ALLAH, THE […]
Hindutva : An ideology of hate by Aakar Patel
Tribune: Like most middle class Hindus, especially Gujaratis, I grew up with particular ideas about nationalism and religion. When one is young, it is easy to be attracted to the idea of Hindutva, because its essence is quite basic and unexceptionable. It seems to rest on a surging love of […]
MI5 pays UK Muslims to spy on terror suspects
Guardian: MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions to help avert terrorist attacks by homegrown Islamist extremists. Individuals across the UK, including in Manchester and London, are being […]
Corbyn blames BRITAIN and the US for the rise of ISIS: Labour leader rejects bombing Syria because it will spark more ‘mayhem’
Source: Daily Mail Jeremy Corbyn said ISIS was created ‘in part’ by western interventions Claimed Western arms and money was ending up with the terror group Labour leader confirmed he would not support any bombing against ISIS He said he would make Britain safer by ‘becoming a force for human […]
Fareed Zakaria GPS, Sundays at 10am & 1pm ET – CNN.com
Watch GPS, Sundays 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. ET The Global Public Square helps you make sense of the world, with insights from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Fareed Zakaria is host […]
Al Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount: A Central Point for Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
Epigraph: Glory be to Him Who carried His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Distant Mosque, the environs of which We have blessed, that We might show […]
USA: Why do Muslims come to America
Why do Muslims come to America, asks Virginia school chairperson? http://tribune.com.pk/story/959199/why-do-muslims-come-to-america-asks-us-school-board-chairperson/ Virginia school board chairperson has caused an uproar after posting an anti-Muslim cartoon on Facebook, questioning why Muslims wanted to come to America. The post read, “Muslims hate pork, beer, dogs, bikinis, Jesus, and freedom of speech. My question […]
Canadian elections: Stephen Harper tells tales on economy
The Conservative leader boasts that he’s a sound economic manager, but the numbers tell a very different story. Share on Facebook RYAN REMIORZ / THE CANADIAN PRESS That Conservative leader Stephen Harper has maintained the fiction of good economic management is testament to his doggedness in sticking to his story, […]
Islam is just as European as Christianity
Source: Quartz Written by Haroon Moghul – a Senior Correspondent at Religion Dispatches and a novelist. He writes extensively on international affairs, religion and culture. “Xenophobic and anti-Muslim” was how […]
A Sikh man builds a mosque for his lifelong Muslim friend because he had nowhere to pray
Source: Online Peeps In an immaculate motion of mankind, Sikhs from of a little town of Sarwapur, Punjab build a mosque for the Muslim occupants. Joga Singh, an affluent agriculturist […]
Powder keg ready to explode
Sep 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES BY MUSA KEILANI Al Murabitun, in Jerusalem, jolted this week the Arab masses, including heads of states into action, following years of lethargy and apathy regarding Palestinian holy sites, be they Christian or Muslim. Al Murabitun are roughly 3,000 Jerusalemites, men, women and teenagers, who study […]
Security Council calls for full respect of Al Aqsa Mosque compound’s sanctity
Epigraph: Glory be to Him Who carried His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Distant Mosque, the environs of which We have blessed, that We might show […]
Very interesting: Heaven & Hell
Courtesy of Aslam Nasir A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, ‘Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.’ The Lord led the holy man to two doors.. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. […]
591. Commandment – Follow the ways of thy Lord that have been made easy for thee. (like honey bees)
591. Commandment – Follow the ways of thy Lord that have been made easy for thee. (like honey bees) [16:70] ‘Then eat of every kind of fruit, and follow the ways of thy Lord that have been made easy for thee.’ There comes forth from their bellies a drink of varying hues. Therein is cure for […]
Mehdi Hasan’s powerful refutation of Islamophobia in Oxford Union, from 2013
Mehdi Hasan | Islam Is A Peaceful Religion | Oxford Union You Tube: Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, political editor of the Huffington Post, warns Anne-Marie Waters that her “astonishing claims” […]
When clocks are bombs
Al Jazeera: Donning his NASA T-shirt, young Ahmed Mohamed walked into his ninth grade class Monday morning, proudly holding the clock he had meticulously assembled at home. The 14-year-old Muslim American student, with a zeal for assembling, disassembling and fixing radios, computers and go-karts, hoped to draw the praise of […]
Again: Saudi Arabia Wins Bid to Behead of UN Human Rights Council Panel
http://blog.unwatch.org/: GENEVA, September 20, 2015 – U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini should condemn and work to reverse the appointment of Saudi Arabia as head of a key UN Human Rights Council panel that selects top officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide, said UN Watch, a non-governmental watchdog organization […]
Legislating ‘takfir’ and combating sectarian violence in Pakistan
Courtesy: Dr. Mohamed Boodhun Source: Friday Times n a recent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership unanimously discussed plans to introduce a legislation to […]
Trump: I was not obligated to correct questioner who called Obama Muslim
theguardian: by Martin Pengelly — Republican frontrunner responds on Twitter amid controversy after he failed to correct audience member’s comment about president at rally Donald Trump on Saturday commented on his failure to correct an audience member at a campaign rally who said Barack Obama was a Muslim. Donald Trump fails to […]