BY ROBERT FISK Sunday 16 November 2014 Militias worry me. No rules, no guidelines, no punishments. The Israelis used an undisciplined mob called the South Lebanon Army. The Americans used their infamous Awakening groups to murder al-Qaeda members in Iraq who were themselves killing American soldiers. The Hezbollah is Iran’s […]
Source: CNN The Kurds are tacitly saying “Look at us. We are the ones who share your ideas about human rights and equality. We are the ones in this many-sided conflict that deserves your support.” The decree was issued by the Jazira district of Syria’s Hasakeh province, about 100 miles […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi on Monday to send a message to men: Stop attacking women because of the way they dress. The protests followed the latest incident of a woman stripped naked in the capital by a group of men who accused her […]
Source: CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Vladimir Putin was the first G20 leader to leave Brisbane. The Russian president’s jet lifted off soon as soon as possible — after the final lunch of the summit meeting, but well before the final communique outlining the achievements of the summit had been […]
Source: The daily Beast The Church of England has approved the ordination of women as bishops, with the first expected to be installed next year. The church’s general synod amended church law to finally allow women to be appointed as bishops. The change was announced Sunday at St Mary Newington […]
Source: TOI DUBAI: A Saudi man has divorced his wife after she ignored his WhatsApp messages despite reading them. The husband, in his 30s, was frustrated by his wife’s seemingly endless interest in using her phone for chatting with friends and family. “She spent most of her time on the […]
Source: TOI LONDON: The part of the British parliament housing the offices of many lawmakers was briefly evacuated on Monday due to a suspicious package before staff were allowed to re-enter the building. A spokeswoman for London’s Metropolitan Police said Portcullis House, an office building opposite the Houses of Parliament […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of […]
India has the highest number of people enslaved, according to the report Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories New index exposes slavery worldwide US reveals ‘modern slavery’ […]
Erdogan claims Muslims beat Columbus to the Americas Source: The Telegraph By Rob Crilly, New York, and agencies Muslims discovered the Americas in the 12 century, nearly 300 years before […]
by Caitlin Aber Ms. Aber is an HNN intern. Islamophobia has spiraled out of control in the United States recently. Terry Jones, a Christian minister with a small congregation in […]
Youtube: Published on Nov 16, 2014 http://www.alislam.org An audience with Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) with the media and special guests during a Peace Symposium held on […]
Source: The Telegraph By Rob Crilly, New York, and agencies Muslims discovered the Americas in the 12 century, nearly 300 years before Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage there, according […]
Womennewsnetwork.net: by Shiloh Sophia McCloud Lewis (WNN) Santa Rosa, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: It was when I began to have images of women from around the world who are suffering flash before my mind, that the reality of the state of the world started ‘sinking in’ after my trip to the […]
BBC News: The Nigerian army says it has recaptured the north-eastern town of Chibok, which was seized by Boko Haram militants on Thursday. Boko Haram fighters kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the village in April, sparking global outrage. The group, which says it is fighting to create an Islamic […]
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. […]