Celebrating Ramadan in the Arctic
Source: Washington Post By Andrew Martin July 10 Andrew Martin is a fiction writer and freelance journalist and critic living in Charlottesville, Va. In the Canadian city of Iqaluit, laborers […]
UK: Ahmadi Muslims Launch Peaceful Campaign against ISIS in Newport #StopTheCrisis
Source: newslocker.com THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Newport has launched the Stop the CrISIS campaign, following the Tunisian beach massacre last month. Thirty eight people lost their lives when a gunman […]
Ramadan, Khalifa and an Ahmadi Muslims Perspective
Click to Read Khilafat in Islam: The successorship of Prophethood in Islam Source: patheos.com | By Qasim Rashid Ramadan, Khalifa and an Ahmadi Muslims Perspective Last year I discussed how Ramadan serves as yet […]
Ramazan: Allah’s Mercy, Forgiveness & Rewards
Source: ahmadiyya.org.sg NOTE: Alislam Team takes full responsibility for any errors or miscommunication in this Synopsis of the Friday Sermon With the grace of Allah today we are going through the […]
Nepal a Religious Refuge for many Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims
Source: rabwah.net On a recent Sunday afternoon, a voice in Urdu echoes through a desolate neighborhood of a valley on the outskirts of Kathmandu. We are climbing a four-story building tucked […]
TIME Admits ISIS Bringing Arms, Fighters in From NATO Territory
Journal-Neo.org: Late last year, Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing across the Turkish border into […]
Catholics Giving Up Sacraments: Becoming More Like Muslims?
Catholic Families Are Strong On Prayer But Weak On Sacraments, According To Study For Religion News Service (RNS) By Cathy Lynn Grossman Posted: 07/11/2015 (RNS) Most of today’s American Catholic parents […]
For Over Six Decades Pakistan Has Been At War With Itself- Bigotry against Ahmadis is enshrined in law
Forbes.com: Pakistan was created, in the words of its founder MA Jinnah, to preserve “what is most precious in Islam.” But how do you determine what is best in any faith? For more than six decades, Pakistan has been at war with itself to answer this question. The principal casualties […]
Editorial: Give Shiites, Ahmadis the Rights to Which They Are Entitled
Jakarta Globe: Forcing minority groups like the Muslim Shiites and the Ahmadiyah to live for years in a refugee is tantamount to state-sponsored crime because it has been done systematically under the authority’s blessing and help. It is against international laws and Indonesia’s own constitution. Continued violence against these groups […]
Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real
Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real and God is not ‘a magician with a magic wand’ Source: Independent By ADAM WITHNALL Tuesday 28 October 2014 The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis […]
UK: By day, at heart of counter-terror policing. And by night, preacher of extremism
By day, at heart of counter-terror policing. And by night, preacher of extremism Government watchdog, which inspects police forces’ readiness for terrorism, employed preacher of extremism 5K 2K 2 4 7K Email Abdullah al Andalusi By Andrew Gilligan 6:00AM BST 12 Jul 2015 The Government watchdog which inspects police forces’ readiness […]
Younger generation of British Muslims showing shift in attitude to gender roles
Source: The Guardian Thinktank report shows majority of 16 to 24-year-old UK Muslims disagree that ‘a husband’s job is to earn money, a wife’s is to look after the home […]
Omar Sharif: Another Muslim, Who Does Not Fit Stereotypes of Islamophobes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Omar Sharif عمر الشريف Sharif in Doctor Zhivago (1965) Born Michel Demitri Chalhoub 10 April 1932 Alexandria, Egypt Died 10 July 2015 (aged 83) Cairo, Egypt […]
Gunmen attack Ahmadiyya mosque in Pakistan
Source: http://www.pressahmadiyya.com Policeman shot three times as extremists attempt to attack Ahmadi Muslim worshipers in faith-based attack. More:
Most Americans 18-29 Years Old Believe in Demon Possession, Shows Survey
Source: Huffington Post By Bruce Wilson; Writes on religion and politics Are Americans becoming less religious? While church affiliation is probably declining, don’t expect the atheist revolution anytime soon: Over one […]
Book Review: Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace
Amazon Book Review: Book by Jonathan Powell (Author) Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, […]
“Home in the House of the Merciful” by Shahina Bashir
Source: patheos.com Best Read: Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal There are no chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, no beautiful Islamic art adorning […]
Malaysia: Department of Islamic Affairs (JAIS) threatens Ahmadi Muslims with Arrest
Source: rabwah.net Malaysian State of Selangor’s religious enforcers have threatened several followers of the minority Ahmadiyya Muslim Community with arrests in order to compel them to appear in the Shariah court […]
Pakistan bans English translations of Islamic terms, including translating ‘Allah’ as ‘God’
Source: Christian Today By Carey Lodge 07 July 2015 A number of Islamic terms have been banned from translation into English under a new law introduced by the Pakistani government. The […]
Is God to Blame for Our Food Crisis?
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist A one-liner by Indian actor Kamal Haasan caught my eye on social media recently. It read, “I […]