Israeli cabinet approves Jewish nation-state law
Epigraph: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) (Reuters) / 23 November 2014Palestinians voice concern that the new law could deny Palestinian […]
Calgary’s Ahmadiyya Muslims take aim at ISIS terrorist and radicalization of youth
Calgarysun.com: by Mark Villani — Members of Calgary’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — Event Organizer for Stop the Crisis Farah Malik (left) and Communications Outreach Advisor Atifa Ahmed — stand in front of a poster to promote awareness against ISIS radicalization in Calgary on November 23, 2014. Love for all, hatred […]
Repair and regeneration in our bodies
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 21 November 2014 Events in our bodies that we are unaware of take place within a meticulous order. The functioning of our organs, so essential to our survival, is not something we initiate and maintain of our own volition. Our organs are one of the […]
Trial run of Haramain Railway next year
Trial run of Haramain Railway next year JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Monday 24 November 2014 Experimental operation of the 480-km Haramain Railway that links the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah will take place in the beginning of next year, said Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry. He said […]
Umrah applicants’ biometrics before travel
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Published — Monday 24 November 2014 Visa applicants for Umrah will soon have to record their biometrics before traveling to the Kingdom. Under the new rule, which […]
Iran is shifting from pariah to possible future policeman of the Gulf Iran’s crisis – our crisis with Iran, if you like – is about that great and historic nation’s future geo-strategic role in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Chatting with my favourite Lebanese banker-journalist before a trip to the Gulf last week, I asked him what he thought I should discuss with the investors and asset managers I was to talk to in Abu Dhabi. “Iran,” he said. “Whatever happens with the […]
Women’s contributions to World Peace
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat National Publications Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association, Canada Close to 300 women gathered Saturday afternoon to recognize women’s contributions to world peace and celebrate the […]
Bomber ‘kills 45’ at Afghanistan volleyball match
Continue reading the main story in BBC Taliban Conflict Five worries for Ghani The Karzai years Where are Pakistan’s militants? Before and after Taliban A suicide bomber has killed at […]
What Putin says and what Putin does have long since diverged. Merkel!
Source: Spiegel: But the chancellor believes that what Putin says and what Putin does have long since diverged. Russian policy, says Erler, is currently following the “principle of organized unpredictability. More:
’60 fighters from Germany have died in Syria, Iraq’
ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS.COM Published — Sunday 23 November 2014 BERLIN: The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says authorities now know of 550 people from the country who […]
Tunisian wins Muslim beauty pageant, calls for free Palestine
AFP | Nov 22, 2014, 06.42AM IST Computer scientist Fatma Ben Guefrache was announced the winner and received a prize which includes a gold watch, a gold dinar, and mini pilgrimage to Mecca. PRAMBANAN: A Tunisian woman called for a free Palestine as she won a pageant exclusively for Muslims in Indonesia on Friday, seen as […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 301. Commandment to consult them in matters of administration
301. Commandment to consult them in matters of administration [3:160] And it is by the great mercy of Allah that thou art kind towards them, and if thou hadst been rough and hard-hearted, they would surely have dispersed from around thee. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and consult them in matters of […]
Jesus: Married…with children?
Source: CNN The question of whether or not Jesus had a wife is back again. More: A painted tile artwork from China at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel, depicts Mary and Jesus. Spanish painting on elk hide in the San Jose Mission Church, Laguna Pueblo, in […]
Change the regime in Moscow?
Source: CNN (CNN) — With tensions simmering over the deadly crisis in Ukraine, Russia has accused the West of seeking regime change in Moscow, prompting renewed comparisons with the Cold War era. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia made the comments at an event Saturday as he attacked Western sanctions […]
Russia will not isolate itself
Source: AFP Russian president Vladimir Putin. — AFP/File MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia did not want to isolate itself behind a new Iron Curtain, which he said would be disastrous for the country. Asked if Russia wanted to build new fences, he said, […]
USA: Eavesdropping let to Inquiry into former US diplomate
Eavesdropping on Pakistani Official Led to Inquiry Into Former U.S. Diplomat By MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MARK MAZZETTINOV. 20, 2014 NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — American investigators intercepted a conversation this year in which a Pakistani official suggested that his government was receiving American secrets from a prominent former State […]
Non-Muslim Writers about the Holy Quran
SIR WILLIAM MUIR ON COMPILATION OF THE HOLY QURAN “Surely, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and we will, most surely, safeguard it.” (Al Hijr 15:10). According to the […]
Andre Carson: The Second Muslim to be Elected to United States Congress
Source: The Huffington Post By Paul Vale, Paul.Vale@huffingtonpost.com Representing Indiana’s 7th district, Andre Carson is only the second Muslim to be elected to serve in the United States Congress following Minnesotan […]
Research suggests intermittent fasting provides health benefits
Medical Xpress: by Marcia Malory — Intermittently restricting food intake could help prevent obesity and associated diseases prevalent in modern society, according to an analysis by Mark P. Mattson of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore and colleagues. The researchers, who also included the BBC’s Michael Mosley, a proponent […]
Prof booked on blasphemy charge
the Nation: ATTOCK – A professor of a private college here has been booked on the charges of blasphemy after an enquiry into the matter. During a press conference, Punjab College students alleged that Professor Hafiz Tahir Naeemi who joined this college a month ago used blasphemous words while teaching a […]