The Daily Star BEIRUT: United Nations and Lebanese officials are meeting Monday to launch the 2015-16 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan to deal with the more than 1.2 million Syrian refugees the country is hosting. Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas and Ross Mountain, the U.N. resident coordinator in Lebanon, will discuss […]
Islam prescribes many forms of worship that have outward expressions, prayer being the most obvious of these. Yet, the greatest, most important facets of worship are the internal ones, the […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Published — Monday 15 December 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved a project to install about 300 sunshades in the courtyards of […]
Businessinsider.com; It’s a saying favored by boomers and grandparents, a comeback beloved enough to make an appearance in New Yorker cartoons and on countless T-shirts: “I’ve forgotten more than you know.” Now, a team of researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany has offeredsome support for the idea that the slowed-down recall we […]
Daily Times: Speaking to the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI’s) three-day convention in Lahore, the ameer (chief) of the party, Sirajul Haq, told his followers that UK agents in Pakistan were trying to spread the propaganda that Jinnah had envisaged Pakistan to be a secular state. He went on to claim Jinnah had […]
theguardian: Giles Fraser —- It’s depressing that a decade after I wrote about a Christian charity’s thinly disguised Islamophobia, they’re still at it Franklin Graham (second from right) leads his father Billy, flanked by former US presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, on the campus of the […]
Source: BBC At least one gunman has taken several people hostage at a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney. Pictures on Australian television show at least three people with […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Washington (CNN) — A defiant former Vice President Dick Cheney doubled-down on his defense of the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA on detainees in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks […]
Source:pressahmadiyya.com 22 Graduates receive their degrees from Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 13 December 2014, the Third Convocation Ceremony of Jamia Ahmadiyya UK took place at the College premises in Haslemere in Surrey. The ceremony was presided over by […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘Bring forward your proof if you are truthful.’ (Al Quran 27:65) Veena Malik and the modern witch-hunt of Pakistani blasphemy laws Source: The Telegraph Pakistan’s blasphemy laws […]
PRESS RELEASE 14-12-2014 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community steps forward to assist the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by the Honorable PM of India. A report on initiatives taken by Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
NYTimes 2014/12/14 For Jihadists, Denmark Tries Rehabilitation By ANDREW HIGGINSDEC. 13, 2014 Photo Oussama el-Saadi, chairman of the Grimhojvej mosque, which critics say breeds radicalism. Credit Jan Grarup for The New York Times AARHUS, Denmark — In many parts of Europe, he would now be in jail. But here in […]
By Marc-André Miserez swissinfo.ch It is thought to be a one-of-a-kind: tucked away in a multicultural, working-class suburb of Bern stands a house with five sanctuaries, one per religion. The House of Religions is a place for coexistence and interaction. With the tip of his spatula, an artist perfects the […]
Samantha Elauf was 17 when she was rejected by a Tulsa, Okla., branch of the clothing store. Members of any religion that need an accommodation will be put in a bad situation if in job interviews they have to ask for them. – William Burgess, staff attorney, Council on American-Islamic […]
The Jews may have originated in the Middle East but they were long ago scattered far and wide – to the Gulf, among other places. Few now remain, except in Iran. But a century ago, writes Matthew Teller, there was even a proposal to found a Jewish state at an […]
Islamforwest: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times When Baylor University researchers asked their 1700 participants about what they think God looks like, 60 percent drew […]
Global Post: For the vast majority of American Christians, attending church is a racially segregated experience. Just 7 percent of all US congregations were racially mixed in 1998. By 2012that number had climbed to 13 percent, according to Michael Emerson, professor of sociology at Rice University and author of three […]
Source: The Telegraph Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a menace to everyone in the country; even speaking out against them now constitutes blasphemy itself It’s hard to read about the blasphemy convictions handed […]