TheGuardian: Rich businessmen, singers of patriotic pop songs and preachers with impeccably hard-line credentials are rarely among those accused of the deadly offence of insulting Islam in Pakistan. But Junaid Jamshed, a crooning evangelical Muslim being investigated by police under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws this week, is all three. A household name […]
Source: CNN It was a killing choreographed for maximum brutality: The simultaneous beheading of 22 Syrian captives held by ISIS. In November, ISIS released a propaganda video titled “Though the Unbelievers Despise It.” It featured the apparent murder of an American hostage, Peter Kassig (known as Abdul Rahman Kassig after […]
By Dan Merica Boston (CNN) — Hillary Clinton stood with those protesting the deaths of two unarmed black males at the hands of law enforcement on Thursday, telling an audience in Boston […]
Nigeria: Commissioning of Jamia Ahmadiyya Library Courtesy: Kabir Adeseye Ade, Muallim Nigeria WELCOME SPEECH BY THE SADR MAJLIS ANSARULLAH NIGERIA, ALHAJI M. B. ODUKOYA DURING THE COMMISSIONING OF JAMIA LIBRARY ON SUNDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER 2015 Amir Sahib, Members of National Aamila here present, Distinguished Guests, Fellow Ansars, Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullah […]
Ever since the recovery from the Great Recession began more than five years ago, the most crucial missing pieces of the economic puzzle were the lack of consistently strong gains in hiring and better wages for most working Americans struggling to make ends meet. Now, at last, those pieces are […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/crime/2014/12/08/newday-perez-profiling-laws.cnn By Evan Perez (CNN) — New federal law enforcement guidelines set to be issued Monday will expand protection from profiling, but won’t apply to screenings at borders and airports, […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who is in Washington to meet with President Barack Obama, described the battle against the Islamic State, or ISIS, terror group in Iraq and Syria as “a third world war” and “a Muslim problem,” they need to take ownership of. “This is a Muslim problem,” Abdullah […]
Published: 07 Dec 2014 22:58 GMT+01:00 Two molotov cocktails thrown into an Islamic centre started a fire in a village in the canton of Saint Gallen early Sunday morning, according […]
Well, heaven preserve us: the most useless “peacemaker” on earth has just used an Arabic acronym for the greatest threat to civilisation since the last greatest threat. Yup, ol’ John Kerry called it “Daesh”, which is what the Arabs call it. It stands for the “Islamic State in Iraq and […]
Guardian: The Conservative party is seeking to avert one of its biggest rifts with the Church of England for decades as an all-party report on food banks warns that Britain […]
RNS: In an article originally published in early 2012 and originally titled “Word power,” Aung San Suu Kyi wrote: “Words allow us to express our feelings, to record our experiences, to concretise our ideas, to push outwards the frontiers of intellectual exploration. Words can move hearts, words can change perceptions, words can […]
http://boingboing.net/: The House unanimously passed a bill that would bring much-needed improvements to the Freedom of Information Act; the Senate had bi-partisan support for it, too — but outgoing Sen Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) singlehandedly killed the bill in a closed-door committee meeting. He offered vague, bullshitty excuses for this, citing nonspecific issues […]
NY Times: THE Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, by young Muslims declaring […]
Daily Times: Junaid Jamshed does not fit that mould by any standard. Except that there is not one kind of religious fundamentalism. He just got caught in the crosshairs of two warring groups fighting for the crown Junaid Jamshed has been left very confused. On the one hand, being part […]
Pakistan can be allowed to become radicalised or it can be salvaged as a large Muslim majority, democratic nation state Starting with the Lahore Resolution, every major landmark constitutional document, including the Objectives Resolution, has promised religious freedom and equal rights for minorities in Pakistan. Despite this, the situation of […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is the story of Azhair Ahmad, who migrated to USA, approximately 18 months ago. He did his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology Lahore – Pakistan and Masters in science […]
ABS-CBN — MANILA (UPDATED) – Typhoon Ruby (international name Hagupit) has left at least 8 people dead in the Visayas, authorities said late Sunday night. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said two people in Iloilo — Thea Rojo from Balasan and Ernesto Baylon from Estancia — […]
Religion News Service | By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) “African-American brothers and sisters, especially brothers, in this country are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be executed, more likely to be killed.” It’s the kind of statement that’s often cited by black clergy and civil rights activists. But […]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Salameh Bihar, 56, who was displaced after Israel destroyed his house in Gaza’s Shajaiya neighborhood in the recent war, is still waiting to rebuild his three-story house. But he is not optimistic about succeeding. Summary: Engineer Imad al-Khalidi has developed a replacement for cement to […]
Through his work Khalid tries to show that the idea is more important than anything else. For him it is the individual’s ideas that make him different from his peers […]