BBC News: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has closed the G20 summit by detailing economic pledges agreed by world leaders. The leaders agreed to boost their economies by at least 2.1% by 2018, adding $2 trillion to global economies. Much of the summit focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position […]
BBC News: Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus mentioned a mosque on a hill in Cuba. […]
BBC News: US President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig as “an act of pure evil”. The Islamic State (IS) militant group released a video showing a masked man standing over a severed head, which the White House confirmed was Mr Kassig. His parents […]
By the sheer Grace and Mercy of Allah, and a lot of prayers, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has now established a Mission House in Merida, Mexico in the State of Yucatan. […]
Source: lfpress.com In the months immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, many Canadian Muslims, like those in other western countries, became feverishly concerned about how the attacks on America would affect them. […]
Source: news.hum.uu.nl On 1 December, Dr Gerdien Jonker will give the second lecture in the series that are organised as a part of the research project ‘Muslims in interwar Europe’, for coordinated by Dr Amr […]
Epigraph: Love of your country is part and parcel of a Muslim’s faith. The Holy Prophet Muhammad Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad: the Worldwide Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The lead article collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Imams failing young Britons, says Ahmadiyya Muslim leader Epigraph: Love of […]
By Erik Holm and Siobhan Gorman The Islamic State is getting into the gold-coin business. The “Treasury Department” of the jihadist group that is now occupying large portions of Syria […]
By Mohammed Rasool and Deb Riechmann The Associated Press GAZIANTEP, Turkey —Archaeology and war don’t usually mix, yet that has been the case for years at Karkemish, an ancient city […]
Dawn: Former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Z.A. Bhutto government (1971-77), Kausar Niazi, has been mistreated by history. by Nadeem F. Paracha Many local historians have charged him for influencing some of the Bhutto government’s many controversial policies, especially the one that supposedly ‘resolved the long standing Ahmadiyya question’. […]
Epigraph: Love of your country is part and parcel of a Muslim’s faith. The Holy Prophet Muhammad Guardian: Young British Muslims are being let down by clerics who are under-educated […]
Huff Post: Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how religious ideas and spiritual practice inform and shape our personal lives, our communities and our world. The show is hosted by Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the Executive Editor of HuffPost Religion. This week we talk to […]
Authorities in Makkah have thwarted plans for a beauty pageant in the holy city, citing the Shariah law that prohibits such a show as reason for the decision. The pageant, […]
By Pamela Constable November 14 at 11:07 PM In a corner of Washington National Cathedral, several hundred Muslim worshipers and other invited guests gathered Friday afternoon for a first-ever recitation […]
292. Commandment to give full measure and full weight, and diminish not unto people their things [7:86] And to Midian We sent their brother Shu‘aib. He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah; you have no other deity but Him. A clear Sign has indeed come to you from your Lord. So […]
294. Commandment – do not cut off the highway for travellers (for theft and robbery) [29:30] ‘Do you indeed come lustfully to men and cut off the highway for travellers? And you commit abomination in your meetings!’ But the only answer of his people was that they said, ‘Bring upon us the punishment […]
293. Commandment – if an unrighteous person brings you any news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully [49:7] O ye who believe! if an unrighteous person brings you any news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and then become repentant for what you have […]
Guardian: Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities will not stop unless newspapers are threatened with sanctions, Mehdi Hasan said yesterday. The columnist and political director of the Huffington Post […]
Multi-faith clergy pray at Nevada Governor’s Mansion seeking God’s mercy on Ebola In a remarkable interfaith gesture, faith leaders from various traditions prayed together in Nevada Governor’s Mansion in Carson City (USA) on November 13 evening seeking God’s mercy on Ebola and for its worldwide victims and their loved […]
The Star: A Sheffield mosque is to hold a peace conference to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I. The Bait-ul-Afiyat Mosque in Sussex Street is to […]