GEO Finally Stands UP For Ahmadi Muslims
Source: Dawn متنازع بیان پر جیو کی معذرت کراچی : مذہبی و تفریحی شوز کی وجہ سے شہرت حاصل کرنے والے میزبان عامر لیاقت حسین کے مارننگ شو میں احمد […]
Syrian economy in ruins; Assad dependent on Iran
Andrew Rosenbaum Monday, December 29, 2014 Assad regime survives on funds from Iran and Russia — Tehran is now dominant force in country, political analysts say ANKARA – The Syrian economy has effectively ceased to function, and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is almost entirely dependent on loans from Iran and some aid from […]
Religion in India bubbles over into politics
Yahoo news: NEW DELHI (AP) — In small-town northern India, Muslims are offered food and money to convert to Hinduism. If that doesn’t suffice, they say they’re threatened. Across the country, the Christmas holiday is canceled for hundreds of government servants who spend the day publicly extolling the policies of […]
AirAsia QZ8501: Forty bodies found in missing plane search
BBC News: At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the […]
US air strike in Somalia targets al-Shabab leader
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…
Ebola outbreak: Liberia opens new cemetery
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…
‘Generation One’: A Frisco Teen Embraces Her Muslim Roots
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 […]
Lausanne scientists step up search for alien life
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 […]
A POLARISED WORLD ICRC boss: more money and staff needed to tackle crises
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 […]
Countess of Wessex: Muslim women are fashionable under their burkas
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 […]
ISIS releases interview with captive Jordanian pilot
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 […]
Erdogan to chair Cabinet in unprecedented move
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 […]
Writing about the Mideast
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 […]
Al Bakistanis and the stupid look
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 […]
Muslim Youths Protect Christians In Kaduna Yesterday
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 […]
Prophet Muhammad, I am willing to die for you, but not live like you
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 […]
Muslims: You Must Break Free of Captivity
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. […]
123rd Jalsa Salana Qadian Concludes WITH FAITH INSPIRING AND EMOTIOAL ADDRESS BY HEAD OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY
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 […]
Gambia: 31st Ahmadiyya Youth Convention Ends in Mansakonko
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 […]
Deobandi Takfiri terrorists not Sunnis are involved in religious terrorism – Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi
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 […]