Praying for Peace

Huff Post: by Fr. Peter-Michael Preble — I try not to choose sides especially in events that do not directly involve me or events that are so complex I do not understand them. Sometimes, however, we are forced to take sides but if we do I hope we have all […]

PBS Documentary: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية‎, transliterated: al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyyah al-Ahmadīyyah; Urdu: احمدیہ مسلم جماعت‎) is the larger of two communities that arose from the Ahmadiyya movement founded in 1889 in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (1835–1908). The original movement […]

11 AUGUST: JINNAH’S PROMISE BETRAYED

Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan.  In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]

Tragedy of Human Callousness

By Maryam Hedayat “Muslims are busy in shopping for Eid and people of Gaza are busy buying coffin every minute” wrote one of my Palestinian friends on her Facebook status. No doubt, I was really very sad and upset over what she expressed in solidarity with her fellow Palestinians. Millions around […]