Global Research: In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis forced about 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, surrounding it with a high wall. Tens of thousands died from hunger and disease. Eventually, 300,000 were sent to death camps, mainly Treblinka in eastern Poland. Similarly, Israel […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: A day after a mob killed three Ahmadis in Gujranwala, the US State Department pointed out that Pakistan’s constitution and laws restrict religious freedom and prohibited Ahmadis from practising their faith. “Although the constitution declares that adequate provisions shall be made for all citizens to profess and practise […]
ET: LAHORE: An elderly woman, two minors and an unborn child all perished late on Sunday when houses belonging to Ahmadis were set ablaze in Gujranwala by a charged mob after an Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy. It was all too familiar for a community that saw back-to-back attacks on its […]
ET: LAHORE: An elderly woman, two minors and an unborn child all perished late on Sunday when houses belonging to Ahmadis were set ablaze in Gujranwala by a charged mob after an Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy. It was all too familiar for a community that saw back-to-back attacks on its […]
Published on Jul 28, 2014 Jewish Voices for Peace: Prominent Jews and Palestinians and others stand for Palestine in this heartbreaking video with Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Tony Kushner, Diana […]
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah congratulated Muslims on the successful completion of Ramadan on Sunday. On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, the king said: “Eid brings joy […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah congratulated Muslims on the successful completion of Ramadan on Sunday. On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, the king said: “Eid brings joy […]
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
Source: The Daily Best. We are always cautioned not to overdramatize, because if the worst doesn’t happen, we can look silly. Maybe so. But I look around the world right now and think: Let’s not under-dramatize, either. We see a set of crises coming to a head all at once […]
Source: The Daily Beast PARIS — As the slaughter continues in Gaza, as bodies rain from the sky over Ukraine, as barbaric jihadists conquer swathes of Syria and Iraq, butchering their enemies and erasing the history of the Bible and of humankind, it seems empathy, sympathy, diplomacy and prayer are […]
On 27 July 2014, Ahmadi Muslims in Kachi-Pump in Gujranwala were attacked by local extremists in a sectarian attack. During the attack, 3 Ahmadi Muslims, including a 7 year old […]
An interesting study on Jordan, by the Brookings Institute: (February 2014) Click to access arab%20econpaper4comolet%20v2.pdf Editor’s note: What the researchers did not realize: Why is Jordan ‘a island of peace’ among ‘troubled nations’? The main reason, as understood ‘in the streets of Amman’, is the fact that the neighbours (Israel) […]
. RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 28 July 2014 Several tourism and commercial firms are taking advantage of high demand by leasing hotel rooms with views overlooking the Grand […]
AFP | Jul 27, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES GAZA CITY — Inside Ashraf Al Qudra’s cramped office in Shifa Hospital, the phone never stops ringing, with news flooding in of […]
Theloadstar: The European Union and United States have imposed ban on the PIA cargo service over improper security arrangements, ARY News reported. The European Union (EU) and United States authorities have written a letter to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to stop the airlines’ cargo service in EU and the US […]
Keyla Calix, a 25-year-old Honduran living in downtown Miami, didn’t think her friend’s gift of a Quran would lead her to reject her Catholic upbringing. But two years later, after […]
Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, is drawing to a close. The last 10 days are considered the holiest, and the focal point is the holiest of the cities, Mecca – from where Ramadan evening and dawn prayers are broadcast on a live feed around the Muslim world. READ MORE… […]