guardian: Jeb Bush, the potential Republican presidential candidate, said in an appearance in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the religion of Islam had been “hijacked” by “barbarians” – and that peaceful practitioners of the religion should not be offended by his saying so. Bush made the comments at a conservative conference […]
Voice of America News: The cartoonist who drew Islam’s Prophet Mohammad for the cover of the French satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine said he will no longer draw the prophet. Cartoonist […]
Source: Patheos By Saima Shiekh “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah,” reads one such ad next to the image of a man in a checkered scarf. “That’s […]
Source: The Clarion Project By Soeren Kern; April 30, 2015 British Politicians Woo ‘Muslim Vote’ With Pledges British Muslims — who voted overwhelmingly for Labour in the 2010 general election — […]
Source: The Clarion Project By Soeren Kern; April 30, 2015 British Politicians Woo ‘Muslim Vote’ With Pledges British Muslims — who voted overwhelmingly for Labour in the 2010 general election — […]
First posted by Zubair Khan An Ahmadiyya Muslim delegation today met the Honorable Prime Minister of India in New Delhi The News as reported by the National News Channel in […]
A lot of people draw their conclusions of the Islam community from what they see on television and the turmoil that has struck the world so far this century. The […]
Source: whatsonglasgow.co.uk When, Where & How Much… Date(s): 24 May 2015 Time(s): 11am – 3pm Where: Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow West End Price: £10 for adults, £7 for children (under 13) or […]
Source: New York Times A new report by a group of dissident health professionals and human rights activists argues that the American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of […]
Source:Stratfor: The European Union is once again struggling to come up with a coherent asylum strategy for its 28 members. In recent years, the rising number of asylum seekers entering the European Union through countries such as Italy and Greece has generated friction among member states, fueled criticism of the Schengen […]
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:180) The Huffington Post | By Jade […]
Source: Nature Why I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students By Rana Dajani, who is associate professor of molecular biology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, and a visiting scholar at the Faraday Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. 22 April 2015 Certain problematic attitudes towards science have been imported into Muslim societies as […]
Epigraph: And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
PERSONAL TECH | GADGETWISE Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat Is the Luxury You Won’t Want to Live Without By FARHAD MANJOOAPRIL 29, 2015 Photo The Toto Washlet toilet. CreditToto IT may sound as if I’m exaggerating when I say that a high-tech, heated, warm-water-spraying bidet toilet seat ruined me for regular […]
Chris, meet Tim. He’s not a Christian like you. He’s a Buddhist.” The introduction affronted my American sensibilities. I would have been less shocked if he had disclosed my net worth. But my friend and my new Buddhist acquaintance seemed unfazed by the candor, so I pretended to be comfortable with […]
WHO was afraid of Sabeen Mahmud? Was it the state or a non-state actor that silenced a brave voice of reason? Was it a mere coincidence that she was gunned down after a seminar on Balochistan that she had organised? Or was it one of those shadowy extremist groups who […]
Salon.com: According to author Kevin Kruse, the idea that America is a “Christian nation” was invented only recently, forged by an alliance between industrialists and conservative clergy who preached the connection between Christianity and capitalism. In One Nation Under God, the Princeton history professor issues a twofold corrective: first, to the popular notion that the […]
MEDITERRANEAN CRISIS ‘Migrants are not adventurers or tourists’ By Luigi Jorio APR 28, 2015 – 11:00 Since the beginning of the year, 16,900 migrants have landed in Italy, among them many women and children (Keystone) Europe has the wrong approach for containing the number of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, an […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 25 April 2015 Last update 26 April 2015 2:14 pm The expansion of the mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready […]
Reuters / Jordan Times / Apr.29, 2015 A file picture taken on June 18, 2004 shows Saudi Arabia’s Adel Al Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Crown Prince, addressing a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC (AFP photo) RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister, a […]