Source: CNN (CNN) — Lebanese authorities have arrested a wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the man spearheading the Islamist terror group’s sweeping rampage across Syria and Iraq — said a source with knowledge of the arrest. The woman is one of al-Baghdadi’s two wives. Her arrest came […]
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: An Indian student who travelled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group has returned home disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports. Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears […]
Source: Dawn Into this contentious mix comes a new study entitled Measuring Constitutional Islamisation: The Islamic Constitutions Index. Developed by University of Chicago scholar Dawood Ahmad and Moamen Gouda, a professor of Middle East economics at Hankuk University, the study attempts to create the first empirical measure for the relative […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: Iranian fighter jets bombed Islamic State jihadists in eastern Iraq in recent days, but the strikes were not coordinated with the US forces, the Pentagon said Tuesday. “We have indications that they did indeed fly air strikes with F-4 Phantoms in the past several days,” Pentagon spokesman […]
Source: Dawn KARACHI: A blasphemy case was registered on Tuesday against singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed on the directives of a district and sessions court for one of his televised sermons that is thought to contain blasphemous remarks about a wife of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). SSP-City Sheeraz Nazeer said […]
Epigraph: 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 […]
MP compares behaviour of ISIS with the actions of Hitler Source: cambridgetimes.ca CAMBRIDGE – Radicalization in the Middle East and abroad doesn’t represent people of Muslim faith, according to an Islamic […]
Source: sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk Imam Maulana Ataul Mujeeb Rashid told the recent conference at the Bait-ul-Afiyat Mosque on Sussex Street that people of all faiths need to ‘unite’ together against religion being […]
Source: snapdwindsor.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held their annual banquet at the Caboto Club. The Banquet which is open to the public and is free, is organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Exploits Valley High School history students got to learn about the crisis in the Middle East and the terror group ISIS from a slightly different angle last week. The students had […]
Read another wonderful article: Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal By Sabiha Hamid Female delegates at the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association conference […]
Source: opendemocracy.net Indonesia’s rising religious intolerance stems from a political pact… The new president, Joko Widodo, must stop the violence before it’s too late. Bahasa Indonesia In Indonesia, religious intolerance on the […]
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Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If you are a Muslim and are reading this article, you were probably surprised or even appalled and […]
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is welcoming the sharp drop in global energy prices, with two influential policymakers on Monday cheering the boost it should provide American pocketbooks and shrugging off any pressure on already low inflation. Soft oil prices in particular, which hit a five-year low on Friday, will […]
Epigraph: If We had sent down this Qur’an on a mountain, thou wouldst certainly have seen it humbled and rent asunder for fear of Allah. And these are similitudes that […]
Source: BBC US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced plans to “help end racial profiling once and for all”. He was speaking in Atlanta in the wake of mass protests […]
ET: LAHORE: Pakistan’s human rights record might be contentious on several levels but in March last year, at its Universal Periodic Review with the Human Rights Council, Pakistan was lauded for its “commitment” to defending human rights. It had accepted 126 proposals put forward by member countries, rejected seven and claimed […]
Indepedent: Council officials in Birmingham are investigating claims that a trust running the city’s first-ever Islamic school spent £1 million of public money funding a new school in Pakistan. The […]
theguardian: by Ally Fogg — Shocking evidence of the effects of austerity in Britain is being met with a silence that suggests a dangerous indifference While homelessness across all ages is rising, youth homelessness in particular is soaring When is poverty at its most dangerous? It is not, as you […]