Pakistan: Ahmadis Faced with Death or Exile
Source: ipsnews.net BOSTON, Oct 20 2014 (IPS) – Two years ago, gunmen shot dead Farooq Kahloun’s newly married son Saad Farooq, 26, in an attack that severely injured Kahloun, his younger son […]
Indonesia: Displaced Ahmadis hope for change after Jokowi’s inauguration
Source: thejakartapost.com The inauguration of Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Jusuf Kalla as the Indonesian president and vice president for 2014-2019 has brought hope to displaced Ahmadis, who have been living at the Wisma Transito shelter in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), after being expelled from their homes in West Lombok in […]
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed […]
Sex ’emerged in ancient Scottish lake’
By Rebecca Morelle, Science Correspondent, BBC News Scientists believe they have discovered the origin of copulation. An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dickiis the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in […]
Ameer calls for discipline & cooperation to build progressive society
gbcghana.com: The Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Alhaji Mohammed Bin-Salih has called for greater discipline and cooperation among Ghanaians particularly the Ahmadis to build a progressive society.According to him without discipline, it is difficult for any community to succeed in its transformation […]
The Messenger of Peace
Published on Sep 8, 2014 http://www.alislam.org Documentary about Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad A video capturing the essence of the efforts for global peace by the 5th successor of Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
The land that loots Edhi sahib
ET: They asked him whether it had ever happened before. “Meray saath kabhi waqeya nahin hua aisa. Mujhay daaka maartay huay chhor diya tha,” Abdul Sattar Edhi said. “Aisay waqiay huay hain, lekin daaka nahin maara.” A stupid question. How could it have happened before? After all, this is Edhi […]
Australia is curtailing civil liberties in response to the Islamic State
Global Post: MELBOURNE, Australia — Shamaila Saeed sat in a circle with a dozen women and teenage girls, discussing passages from the Quran. It was a typical afternoon in the women’s section of the IEWAD mosque and community center in Narre Warren, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The tranquil setting […]
Tunisia ‘Strongly’ Condemns Israeli Incursion in Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound – FM
Tunis — Tunisia “strongly” condemns the incursion of the Israeli forces in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the ban imposed on prayers to enter the compound and the brutalization of several of them. The systematic policy of aggression perpetrated by Israel against the sacred shrines of Islam in Al-Quds is a […]
Business schools: Swiss Executive MBA programmes rise in rankings
Four Swiss business schools have appeared in the Financial Times’ ranking of 100 executive MBA (EMBA) programmes, with IMD in Lausanne performing best, climbing four places since last year to 15th. The list, published on Monday, compares programmes for working senior executives and is topped for the first time by […]
Qur’an lesson for today: Commandment to shun all that which is vain
268. Commandment to shun all that which is vain [23:4] And who shun all that which is vain, [25:73] And those who bear not false witness, and when they pass by anything vain, they pass on with dignity; [28:56] And when they hear vain talk, they turn away from it […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 269. Commandment to let not one people deride another people
269. Commandment to let not one people deride another people [49:12] O ye who believe! let not one people deride another people, who may be better than they, nor let women deride other women, who may be better than they. And defame not your own people, nor call one another […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 270. Commandment not to be an arrogant as Allah loves not any arrogant boaster
270. Commandment not to be an arrogant as Allah loves not any arrogant boaster [46:21] And on the day when those who disbelieve will be brought before the Fire, it will be said to them, ‘You exhausted your good things in the life of the world, and you fully enjoyed […]
Mauritius – Model of democracy?
Port Louis, Mauritius — The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true […]
Cameron is warned ‘no possibility’ of UK reducing immigration and that bid to bring in quota on migrant workers would be illegal
Andy McSmith Sunday 19 October 2014 David Cameron’s plan to restrict the amount of time that EU migrants can spend working in Britain will never be accepted by the other EU governments, Europe’s highest ranking official, Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned. He insisted that the right of EU citizens to […]
Ebola: There is nothing to fear but panic itself
Summary by David Ignatius, Daily Star, Lebanon You could feel a shiver of panic coursing through the American body politic this week as the country struggled with a metastatic set of crises: the spread of the Ebola virus, the surge of ISIS terrorists, and the buckling global economy. President Barack […]
Why the first mission to Mars should only have female astronauts
National Post: by Kate greene Slate — Courtesy of Sian ProctorAuthor Kate Greene seen during the fake mission to Mars. In February of 1960, the American magazine Look ran a cover story that asked, “Should a Girl Be First in Space?” It was a sensational headline representing an audacious idea […]
Burka segregation in Parliament reversed by Speaker Bronwyn Bishop
abc.net: by Emma Griffiths — PHOTO Senate President Stephen Parry faced a grilling during a committee hearing this morning. A move to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate enclosed public gallery at Parliament House has been reversed. Earlier this month, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop […]
Montreal: Radicalized Man Runs His Vehicle into Two Soldiers
Driver who ran over two Canadian soldiers near Montreal ‘had become radicalized,’ PMO says Postmedia News and Jake Edmiston | October 20, 2014 | Last Updated: Oct 20 7:45 PM ET Nationalpost.com Allen McInnis/Postmedia NewsSurete du Quebec police investigators at the scene of a police shooting following a hit and run […]
What Can We Learn From the Treaty of Hudaibiyya: Flexibility of Thought?
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:21/22) Written […]