The Calgary mayor with soaring rhetoric and 217,000 Twitter followers can now boast global dominance. On his 43rd birthday no less, Naheed Nenshi was named Monday as the winner of the 2014 World Mayor Prize, a somewhat obscure award but the loftiest accolade yet for a politician with much popularity […]
Two national Muslim organizations say they are troubled that Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week drew a link between radicalization and mosques. Harper made the remark last Friday when he was answering a question about the Canadian government’s new anti-terrorism legislation. The measures unveiled in Bill C-51 include criminalizing advocacy for or promotion […]
Viral Tales — How. Is. This. Even. Possible? The 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic trailer featured 500 people dancing in the sky in one of the most beautiful and mesmerizing performances I’ve seen to date. Dancers – better described as acrobats – move through the air in perfect time with the music. Flawlessly […]
Dawn.com: by Yumna Rafi — DawnNews screengrab showing activist Jibran Nasir speaking to the media after being released from police custody. KARACHI: Lawyer and activist Mohammad Jibran Nasir, who has been leading protesters in Karachi against activities of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), was freed by the police after he […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) bench hearing an appeal filed by Mumtaz Qadri – the murderer of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer – asked his defence team whether […]
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to […]
ET: LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Shehzad Raza declared four blasphemy suspects proclaimed offenders on Friday for not appearing in court. The suspects had earlier been granted after-arrest bail by Lahore High Court. The district and sessions court also issued non-bailable arrest warrants for the suspects and ordered action […]
6 February 2015 Last updated at 15:51 GMT Thousands have rallied in Jordan’s capital, Amman, in support of their government’s military response to the killing of a Jordanian fighter pilot […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is one of the oldest peace-loving Muslim Communities in Japan who had started their Missionaries activities since 1935 from Kobe. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan is launching a […]
Source: standard.gm The chief ruling-APRC advocate has distanced his party from the comment made by opposition-UDP leader Ousainou Darboe that it would be ‘disastrous’ if the Supreme Islamic Council’s decision to […]
Additional Reading The Muslim Times Leading the Discussion on Free Speech and Its Limitations
UK spies had acted illegally when they scooped up data on British residents’ online communications that was gathered by the US National Security Agency, a British court has ruled in a landmark judgment against Britain’s security services. But the judges said in the verdict on Friday that now, since details […]
Source: thestar.com | blogs.windsorstar.com The controversial Imam in Montreal, Hamza Chaoui believes that democracy and Islam are “parallel lines that never intersect and that the vote is a sin” But he should look at […]
In Forged, Ehrman reveals: The Apostle Peter was illiterate, and therefore could not have written two letters (1 & 2 Peter) credited to him in the Bible. Six of the […]
Source:Arab News Beirut: A cleric with the Islamic State jihadist group has been removed from his post after objecting to the burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot, a monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the cleric, known by the nom-de-guerre Abu Musab Al-Jazrawi, raised objections […]
Epigraph: Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
“I want to apologize. I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] fire. I was instead in a following aircraft.” for 12 years he did not say otherwise By Dr. Fred http://www.fortruthssake.com/2015/02/brian-williams-credibility-is-gone-with-the-wind/ Losing one’s credibility is not easy for most of us to […]
By Nabeela Ali, who used to work as a professional journalist in Islamabad Pakistan, when journalists were not highly paid in terms of respect and money It’s hard to define terrorism but according to many people when it comes to Muslims, it becomes crystal clear that Muslims are terrorists and Islam […]
371. Commandment – And lawful for you are chaste believing women and chaste women from among those who were given the Book before you [5:6] This day all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you, and […]
Awso Peshdary, Khadar Khalib ran ‘Syrian fundraisers’ By Keaton Robbins, Ottawa Sun First posted: Thursday, February 05, 2015 08:10 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, February 05, 2015 08:55 PM EST […]