BBC News: The US says it has conducted an air strike against the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab in Somalia. Its target was a “senior leader” in the area of Saakow, according to a statement by the US defence department. READ MORE…
BBC News: Liberia has opened a new national cemetery to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola outbreak. A Liberian official said the 50-acre site in Monrovia, half of which is ready to use, will enable “dignified” burials instead of cremations. READ MORE…
By ERIC AASEN & STELLA M. CHÁVEZ Irum Ali decided to wear a hijab to Liberty High School in Frisco. Mark Birnbaum KERA Growing up in a traditional immigrant family can be rewarding and challenging for kids born in the United States. Meet a Frisco high school student who’s managing to practice her religious […]
Published: 30 Dec 2014 09:26 GMT+01:00 Swiss and Belgian researchers said on Monday they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant […]
By Frédéric Burnand swissinfo.ch DEC 29, 2014 – 11:00 In the suburbs of Aleppo on November 17, 2014: The ICRC is the only foreign aid organisation working in the contested area. (Reuters) Like many multinational organisations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will implement a restructuring plan next […]
The Telegraph: The Countess of Wessex has spoken out in support of Muslim women who express their fashion sense while wearing traditional clothes like the burka. The countess told Harper’s Bazaar magazine women from the Islamic world could be stylish and modest at the same time. In an interview by […]
Associated Press BEIRUT: ISIS published Monday an interview with the Jordanian pilot captured last week after his plane crashed in northern Syria. First Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh’s F-16 went down near ISIS’s de facto capital of Raqqa Wednesday. The 26-year-old Jordanian is the first foreign military pilot to fall into the extremists’ hands […]
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced he would chair a Cabinet meeting in January, a move unprecedented for a Turkish head of state in recent times. Erdogan […]
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 30 December 2014 Writing and reporting about the Middle East is not an easy task, especially during these years of turmoil. Following and reporting on these constant changes without a deep understanding of the region will achieve little but predictable and lackluster content that offers […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — For the longest time, we refused to accept that the Taliban were behind the attacks on our cities, schools and mosques. Instead, we blamed India, the US and countless other faceless enemies. A more civilised and thinking nation would have corrected their course […]
naij.com: This is what prompted more than 200 Muslim youth volunteers to have singled themselves out to protect Christians during this year’s Christmas celebration. The church services which was organised […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Jibran Nasir, A lawyer, activist and an independent politician. In 2013, he was listed by the Foreign Policy Magazine amongst three Pakistanis doing inspirational work against sectarian […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — The fire that burns Syria, Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Central Africa Republic, Egypt, and Libya is secondary to the fire that burns inside each Muslim worldwide who literally screams for God to intervene and extinguish this burning flame — but doesn’t find Him. […]
Source:pressahmadiyya.com The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, concluded the 123rd Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian, India on Sunday, 28 December 2014 with a faith-inspiring and emotional address. His Holiness addressed the final […]
Source: allafrica.com | Alieu Ceesay The 31st Annual National Ijtema (Convention) organised by the Ahmadiyya Jammat Youth Association in The Gambia on Sunday ended at the Tahir Ahmadiyya Muslim Senior School in Mansakonko […]
Source: LUBP “Voice of Sunnis ” commented on that article , ” Former fereral Minister for religious affairs and prominent Sufi Sunni scholar and son of most famous Sufi Sunni scholar and founder of Jamat – E- Ahlsunnat and Dawat -e-Islami Syed Ahmad Saeed Kazami has written an article in daily […]
Source: thestar.co.uk Green-fingered members of a Muslim youth group have planted some 500 trees in Longley Park. The youngsters, who are part of ‘Muslims for Humanity’, got their hands dirty as […]
Source: Press and Sun By SHERMAN MORELAND III December 26, 2014 Did you know that there are war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Vietnam) whose hardest wound to bear […]
Daily Times: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — You remember well that the last time your host Mr Amir Liaquat promoted anti-Ahmedi hate speech on your forum in September of 2008, two prominent Ahmedi leaders were gunned down within 48 hours. You have done it again. Yet another murder (a third) […]
Many leave Hungary and the rest of East-Central Europe in search of opportunity; others arrive in search of better lives. By John Feffer, December 19, 2014. People have been leaving East-Central Europe in droves to get better jobs and opportunities further to the west. These diaspora populations are now very visible in […]