New Zealand: “Islamic State ‘wrong’ to call themselves Muslims”
Source: 3news.co.nz IS – ISIS or ISIL – has been described as being so extreme, even Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda – which carried out the September 11 attacks – has rejected […]
An Honest Open Letter to Moderate Muslims | Qasim Rashid
Source: huffingtonpost.com Dear fellow Muslims, You’ve likely heard the old saying, “You can’t wake up someone pretending to be asleep.” This thoughtful proverb crossed my mind as I read new atheist […]
Australia: Young Muslims Converge in Western Sydney to Spread the Message of Loyalty
Source: pressking.com This week marks the 32nd national annual youth conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s 7 to 40 year age group with a series of competitively played classic Australian sports […]
USA: Ahmadis and Atheists for Freedom of Conscience
Source: huffingtonpost.com/kashif-n-chaudhry I was born in Pakistan, completed my medical school there and then moved to the United States for higher medical training. I also moved to escape the horrid persecution my Islamic […]
Ebola Video: Would You Go to Emory University or Dallas Hospital?
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/health/2014/10/15/newday-cohen-second-healthcare-worker-texas-ebola.cnn (CNN) — A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday — casting […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 266. Commandment to spy not
266. Commandment to spy not [49:13] O ye who believe! avoid most of suspicions; for suspicion in some cases is a sin. And spy not, nor back-bite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his brother who is dead? Certainly you would loathe it. And […]
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The Surprising Story Of ‘Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an’
Listen to author’s interview in NPR Thomas Jefferson had a vast personal library reflecting his enormous curiosity about the world. Among his volumes: a Quran purchased in 1765 that informed […]
Amazon Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders
Courtesy of Hanif Koya, California Author: Denise Spellberg Introduction In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a […]
Kids Behind Bars: Israel’s Arbitrary Arrests of Palestinian Minors
Kids Behind Bars: Israel’s Arbitrary Arrests of Palestinian Minors By Julia Amalia Heyer Jonas Opperskalski / DER SPIEGEL Last year, approximately one thousand Palestinian children were arrested by Israeli forces, […]
MIDDLE EAST Swiss confirm support for Palestine
Switzerland plans to allocate an average of CHF30 million ($31.5 million) a year towards humanitarian aid and development programmes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the 2014-17 period. This support […]
US Policy Towards Iran Played Big Role in Rise of Sunni Extremism
By Shireen T. Hunter (source: LobeLog) Throughout the recent handwringing about how the US and other Western countries failed to foresee the emergence of ISIS, one factor has been totally ignored, either intentionally or inadvertently: the impact of Washington’s hostility towards Iran, especially its persistent tendency to treat any anti-Iranian […]
Islamic State militants on Baghdad doorstep
WASHINGTON: US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State militants with 21 bombing raids near Kobani on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had “slowed” the group’s advance on the Syrian border […]
Architectural marvel: World’s 7th largest mosque opens for worshippers
Epigraph: And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
Bill Maher’s horrible excuse: Why his defense of Islamophobia just doesn’t make any sense
For all his odes to liberal ideals, Maher’s latest effort to demonize Muslims reveals a disturbing, illiberal truth by Myriam Francois-Cerrah Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Her words seem […]
Richest 1% own 50 percent of world wealth- Credit Suisse report
Russia Today: World wealth has reached a record $263 trillion but is concentrated in fewer hands. The richest 1 percent have accumulated more wealth, and own almost 50 percent of […]
Richard Dawkins reluctantly concedes Islam can’t be blamed for the actions of terrorist organizations like ISIS
Richard Dawkins: Religion isn’t the problem in the Middle East The new atheist reluctantly concedes Islam can’t be blamed for the actions of terrorist organizations like ISIS Richard Dawkins (Credit: Reuters/Chris […]
How Malala Can Help Defeat the (Un) -Islamic State
FP: Empowering Muslim women is the key to degrading and ultimately destroying medieval and reactionary fanaticism. The Nobel Peace Prize committee rightly cited the work that Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi did to lead the “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all […]
We’re Doing Bigotry Wrong
Fake apologies ask us to pretend that prejudices are shed as easily as coats Recently, Charlotte Lucas – co-founder of Lucas Oil, the corporate namesake of the Indianapolis Colts’ football stadium — took to her Facebook account to comment on unchecked minority rule in America. “I’m sick and tired of minorities […]
NY Times Op Ed: How Pakistan Fails Its Children
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — TO truly understand Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, we need to understand the place she comes from. Ms. Yousafzai is from Pakistan. The day Taliban terrorists shot her in the head she was on her way to school. Pakistan’s schools, its teachers and […]