Breaking news: Muslims to protect Oslo synagogue
hopenothate.org.uk: A group of Norwegian Muslims will be forming a circle around Oslo synagogue after the celebration of Shabat this Saturday in a solidarity gesture called the Ring of Peace. […]
Indian prime minister claims genetic science existed in ancient times
Source: The Guardian Maseeh Rahman in Delhi, Tuesday 28 October 2014 Narendra Modi gives examples of Karna and Ganesha to support view that cosmetic surgery and reproductive genetics used thousands of […]
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest By Maximilian Popp spiegel.de REUTERS Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there […]
ANTI-EXTREMISM: Breaking the radicalisation cycle
ANTI-EXTREMISM Breaking the radicalisation cycle By Simon Bradley FEB 18, 2015 – 10:20 Global efforts to counter violent extremism continue to intensify with a high-level summit in Washington this week. Outside of international talks, are grassroots approaches the answer? A new Geneva-based agency thinks so. On Wednesday, civil society and […]
Divers find record trove of gold coins in Mediterranean
JERUSALEM: Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel’s Mediterranean coast — about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country’s antiquities […]
Russian researchers expose breakthrough US spying programme
SAN FRANCISCO — The US National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former […]
Ash Wednesday: 46 Days to Easter, Let us Study Resurrection
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity. It occurs 46 days (40 fasting days, if the 6 […]
Women Less Welcome Than Men in Fields Demanding Brilliance
Biosciencetechnology.com: by Cynthia Fox — Women are less welcome than men in fields—including philosophy, physics, math, and music composition—where brilliance is viewed as more important than effort, says a co-ed Princeton University/University of Illinois group in a recent Science. The team “noticed a pattern I had never heard of: that certain […]
Terrorism: Is Islam to Blame?
Epigraph: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32) Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Collection of […]
The Middle East is red with the blood of Christians
Source: NewAge Islam.com The beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by forces sympathetic to Islamic State over recent days is sadly not an isolated case. On the contrary, it is the latest of countless outrages perpetrated against Christians in or near the Church’s Biblical heartlands over many years. The […]
Militarised society
Source:Dawn But there is one particular path that can already be identified and on which the country has already set foot that will without a shadow of doubt lead to an even more violent future: that of further militarising the population. More:
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at On Gambia’s Independence Anniversary
Source: allafrica.com | Baba F. Trawally, Amir The Gambia, by the grace of Allah Almighty, will be celebrating her golden jubilee independence anniversary on Wednesday 18th February 2015. This will be fifty years since […]
Fear, Inc. 2.0: As Anti-Muslim Incidents Continue, Report Exposes Funders, Pundits of Islamophobia
http://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2015/2/16/fear_inc_20_as_anti_muslim Additional Reading Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps”
Isis has provoked an Arab alliance to bomb the West’s enemies
Just when Washington and Nato feared they were going to be bombing Isis on their own, the self-styled “Islamic State” has single-handedly created a new Arab military alliance to bomb the West’s enemies. By its seaside slaughter of 21 Egyptian Christians, Isis has brought ex-Field Marshal President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi […]
Population Decline and the Great Economic Reversal
By George Friedman In recent weeks, we have been focusing on Greece, Germany, Ukraine and Russia. All are still burning issues. But in every case, readers have called my attention to what they see as an underlying and even defining dimension of all these issues — if not right now, […]
Qur’an lesson for today: Those among you who put away their wives by calling them mothers — they do not become their mothers
381. Commandment – Those among you who put away their wives by calling them mothers — they do not become their mothers; their mothers are only those who gave them birth; and they certainly utter words that are manifestly evil and untrue [58:3] Those among you who put away their […]
Qur’an lesson for today: As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go back on what they have said
382. Commandment – As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go back on what they have said, the penalty for it is the freeing of a slave before they touch each other …. [58:4] As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go […]
An Unlikely Connection Between the Prophet Muhammad and George Washington
By Craig Considine; Sociologist, Speaker, Writer In seventh century Arabia, a middle-aged man had a vision to create a new religious and social order for a largely pagan and tribal society. […]
‘Peace & harmony’ conference by Ahmadiyya Bangladesh lauded
Islam is a religion that advocates peace, understanding and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat promotes integration and dialogue at all levels with this end in view. Source: worldtimes24.com Speakers at a conference […]
Heart Breaking News: 11 Killed in Blast in Pakistani City Lahore
Source: February 17, 2015 13:53 IST | ndtv.com LAHORE: Eleven people were killed after a bomb exploded close to the police headquarters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore today. The blast […]