Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins Pen Pinter prize
Source: BBC Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins Pen Pinter prize – BBC News Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who is in jail for “insulting Islam”, has won the Pen Pinter […]
Dawn Op Ed: A vulnerable minority
PERSECUTION can be overt at times, subtle and insidious at others; and most people would likely agree that it is an ugly, despicable thing. However, there is one minority community in Pakistan — the Ahmadis — against whom persecution of both kinds not only exists but is celebrated as a […]
What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned in India
The Wire: The following is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and The Wire is publishing it in the light of this week’s shocking incident […]
“Time for mankind to unite and work together” – Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Press Ahmadiyya: On 5 October 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph) was interviewed by RTV Nunspeet at the Baitun Noor Mosque complex in Nunspeet, Holland. The radio interview was broadcast live and streamed worldwide. Speaking about the purpose of his visit to Holland, […]
Islamabad: a mosque to honor Gen. Raheel Sharif
اور اب مسجد راحیل شریف وسعت اللہ خانبی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی 6 اکتوبر 2015شیئر دنیا میں مساجد کا نام شخصیات کے نام پر رکھنا معمول کی بات ہے جس کا عمومی مقصد عقیدت کا اظہار یا خراجِ تحسین پیش کرنا ہے۔ سب سے زیادہ مساجد خلفائے راشدین […]
3 Win The 2015 Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Studies In DNA Repair
Source: Huffington Post By Jade Walker; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post Three scientists — Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar — won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for “mechanistic […]
KSA-hosted Umrah for US ‘clockmaker’ harassed by school
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan IBRAHIM NAFFEE Published — Wednesday 7 October 2015 JEDDAH: The Kingdom is hosting for Umrah the American student who was recently wrongfully arrested after a teacher at his school in Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan, who is of Sudanese […]
Mahmoud Abbas’ bombshell
Oct 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES For months before the current UN General Assembly session, ideas floated from Ramallah as to what Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas would do next, following the total and final collapse of his peace strategy with Israel. No one took seriously his hints that after turning […]
How Iranian general plotted out Syrian assault in Moscow
By Reuters – Oct 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Russian naval landing ship Azov sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain […]
Jordan: Couple throws wedding party for refugees
By Suzanna Goussous – Oct 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Mutaz Mango and Basma Omar celebrate their wedding among refugees at an old hotel in downtown Amman recently (Photo courstesy of Youssef Kawar) AMMAN — A Jordanian couple decided last week to forgo conventional wedding celebrations in favour of throwing a party […]
Danger facing Syria and Iraq
Oct 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Faced with similar threats from a common enemy, Daesh, Iraq and Syria are being drawn closer at rapid speed. Daesh occupies large swathes of territory in both Iraq and Syria, and continue to pose grave dangers to both countries. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi […]
Holland: Khalifa Of Islam Addresses Members of Dutch Parliament, Defends Islam
Ahmadiyya Times: It is entirely unjust to associate Islam with such disorder and hatred… If we look at the history of all religions objectively, overtime followers of every religion moved […]
Germany: asylum seekers struggle with violence
der Spiegel Two men are waiting for their lunch inside a drafty airport hangar — one is an 80-year-old from Pakistan, the other an 18-year-old Albanian. A throng of people are waiting and the line can take up to an hour, but the young man has run out of patience. […]
Muslims lagged behind because they kept women enslaved, says AMC V.C.
Muslims lagged behind because they kept women enslaved, says Aligarh Muslim University, V-C Zameer Uddin Shah The Indian Expre Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, […]
USA: Carson Calls on IRS to Terminate CAIR’s Tax-Exempt Status
Carson Calls on IRS to Terminate CAIR’s Tax-Exempt Status Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said CAIR ‘brazenly violated’ IRS rules, noting it is ‘not the first time that CAIR has disrespected U.S. laws.’ BY RYAN MAURO Sun, October 4, 2015 Ben Carson (Photo: CNN Video screenshot) Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is calling […]
America’s Crisis of Interfaith
Huff Post: by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — “We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind.” Two weeks ago I was privileged to report […]
America’s Oligarch Problem: How the Super-Rich Threaten US Democracy
America’s Oligarch Problem: How the Super-Rich Threaten US Democracy An Essay By Markus Feldenkirchen SPIEGEL.DE AFP Poking fun at the über-oligarch: Donald Trump pinatas are displayed in the window of a store in San Francisco’s Mission District. The sky’s the limit when it comes to […]
The Iranian Project: Why Assad Has Turned to Moscow for Help
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE REUTERS A man carries a girl in the Douma quarter of Damascus following shelling by regime troops. Iran has long been sending troops and material to help Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad wage war against his own people. But now Tehran is busy establishing a state […]
Looming Doubts : Merkel’s Grip on Refugee Crisis May Be Slipping
Looming Doubts : Merkel’s Grip on Refugee Crisis May Be Slipping REUTERS The flow of refugees into Germany is continuing and the government in Berlin has found no way to slow it. Faith in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ability to handle the problem is plunging — especially within her own party. By SPIEGEL […]