Crowding, shoving challenges of Umrah season
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID To ensure a smooth worshiping experience for everyone at the Grand Mosque this Umrah season, the director of the Gates Administration at the mosque in Makkah, Abdullah […]
Russia’s regional role (in the Middle East)
The Daily Star, Lebanon: Editorial The recent Russian movement in the region speaks not only of Putin’s desire to reassert Kremlin’s position in the area, but of U.S. failings here. But as long as it done with peaceful intentions then it is to be welcomed. Traditionally, Russia tended to keep […]
The Day My Faith in America Died
Huff Post: by Paul Brandies Raushenbush — “Do you think the Surgeon General is behind it?” Sean joked with me this morning, “I mean there were cigarettes and cigarillos involved in both so maybe they just really don’t want us to smoke.” Sean’s attempt at humor masked the deep pain he is […]
Continued Racism in Trump’s America and Universal Brotherhood in Islam
Epigraph: O ye people! Be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single first life form and created therefrom its mate, and from them over […]
USA: St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Invites Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Glen Ellyn Chicago Chapter visited St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, IL. on a special invitation from Reverend Donna M. Lalongo, the head of the […]
Who are the Yazidis?
Yazidis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( Total population 840,000 – 1,000,000[1][2][3] Regions with significant populations Iraq 650,000[4] Syria 50,000[5][6] Germany 40,000[1][7] Russia 40,586[8] Armenia 35,272[9] Georgia 20,843[10] Netherlands 5,000[11] Sweden 4,000[7] Scriptures Yazidi Book of Revelation (Kitêba Cilwe) Yazidi Black Book (Mishefa Reş) Languages Kurdish (Latin)[12][13] Yazidism Type Syncretic […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Singapore’s 27th annual peace convention – A Report
Source: Nasir Ahmad, Nazim Photography and Reporting Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Singapore’s 27th annual peace convention, the Jalsa Salana commenced today, 5th December 2014. This three-day event traditionally attracts Muslims mostly from South […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 313. Commandment – in whose houses you are allowed to have meals
313. Commandment – to whom houses you are allowed to have meals [24:62] There is no harm for the blind and there is no harm for the lame, and there is no harm for the sick and none for yourselves, that you eat from your own houses, or the houses […]
Helping Humanity: Community service
Christians, Jews and Muslims can also work together for the good of our communities. Source: usatoday.com To honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community began organizing blood […]
Harper says Canadian Muslim condemnation of attacks on soldiers very important
The comments — believed to be Harper’s first public words of support for Canadian Muslims following the incidents — were made as he addressed a gathering of the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
True Caliphate promotes peace, not terror
Source: felixonline.co.uk True Caliphate is a spiritual leadership to promote peace, not political leadership to impose power. Umar Nasser, Chair of IC Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association, argues that extremists have masked […]
T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School Ghana receives Award
Source: GNA Accra, Dec. 3, GNA – Three senior high schools (SHS) on Tuesday received awards for reaching the finals of the maiden “Inaugural Africa Schools Debate-Dialogue League” competition. It is an Africa Intellectual Integration Project, organised by The Think Africa Forum, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in collaboration with Ghana […]
Prime Minster Modi meets Ahmadiyya Muslim leader of Poonch, J&K
Source: AT Mr. Azeem is seen seated on the left side of Prime Min Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi met Mr. Azeem Sahib, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Poonch, a town in the Indian administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, last Friday. The meeting took place when PM Modi […]
Every Thing You Needed to Know about Male Circumcision
Epiraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
Jordan makes $2.87b appeal under response plan to refugee crisis
by Khetam Malkawi | Dec 04, 2014 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday stressed its commitment to supporting Syrian refugees on its territory, but warned that the same level […]
Last stop: Fearful Arab drivers quit Jerusalem buses
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Fadi has endured verbal abuse and even the threat of suicide bombers during 15 years at the wheel of Jerusalem’s public buses, but like dozens of Palestinian […]
Al Azhar urges Mideast Christians not to flee jihadists
CAIRO — Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious centre of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile. The call, made at a Cairo conference organised by Al Azhar, came just days after Pope Francis […]
ISIS leader threatens Lebanon over arrest of wife
Summary An ISIS commander threatened to kidnap Lebanese women and children and end negotiations over the captive servicemen unless his wife and children, detained by authorities last week, are released soon. Shishani denied what he said were claims that the woman was ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife, saying that […]
Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned by Egypt to ‘teach Qatar a lesson’ for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood
ROBERT FISK Thursday 04 December 2014 Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man. And so he should be. He says that he and his two colleagues from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera channel – Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed – were imprisoned by the Egyptians to “teach Qatar a lesson” because the emirate […]
Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge: How ignoring some basic facts exacerbates our country’s race problem. I remember having to explain to my […]