A Symbol of Peace – Mosque Opens Its Doors to Public
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 12:21 pm Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at NZ A Symbol of Peace – Mosque Opens Its Doors to Public A mosque is a symbol of peace and […]
UK lawmakers pass symbolic motion to recognise Palestine as a state
LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers voted in favour of recognising Palestine as a state on Monday in a move which will not alter the government’s stance on the issue, but […]
Pakistani Women: Nobel, Oscar, Emmy and what not?
pakteahouse: Malik Malala Yousufzai was given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 on her championing the cause of Children’s right for education, especially for girls. This is the young girl who was brave enough to ask for her right of education despite the ban from Taliban in Swat on Girls’ […]
An Honest Open Letter to Moderate Muslims
Huff Post: 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 Ali Rizvi’s letter, which I can only assume is addressed you and I. I can only assume as much […]
Pakistan: Hilarious Urdu Bill Boards
Funny Signboards (in Urdu)……….. you won’t stop laughing June 10, 2012 by Editor 119 Comments ‘Funny signboards in Urdu’ is a large collection of carefully selected funny signboards. These extremely funny signboards in Urdu depict a true picture of Pakistan in a humorous way. It will hopefully provide good enjoyment to the fun […]
The Nobel winner Pakistan won’t celebrate
Source: The Hindustan Times, Courtesy of Basharat Ahmed, Banglore, India Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan TimesLondon, October 11, 2014 The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai has been officially welcomed in […]
Why play is important to us all
theguardian: by Lauren Laverne — Life is a serious business. But new research shows that the way to get the most out of it is to be more playful. So get out there and have some fun Lauren Laverne: ‘Play is indispensable to human progress and good for individuals.’ […]
Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director
By Sam Stein BETHESDA, Md. — As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, […]
Instead of Columbus Day, some U.S. cities celebrate Indigenous People’s Day
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Ebola: Liberian health workers plan strike
Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues. The National Health Workers Association wants an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those treating Ebola cases. In the US, President Barack Obama has directed […]
EU launches operation to track down migrants
Berlin, Germany – Ahmed Salihu, a Nigerian who received refugee status from Italy in February 2013, has been living in the German capital for more than a year. He is considered an illegal migrant according to European Union’s Dublin regulation, which stipulates recognised refugees must live in the country that […]
IMF launches consultations on Islamic finance
The International Monetary Fund has held its first consultation with an external advisory group of Islamic finance industry bodies, as regulators across the globe seek to address structural issues in the sector. Islamic finance, with its core markets in the Middle East and southeast Asia, is under growing regulatory scrutiny […]
Protecting Kobani not main strategic objective, says John Kerry – video
US secretary of state, John Kerry, suggests that protecting the beseiged Syrian town of Kobani is not a primary objective of US-coalition forces. ‘As horrific as it is to watch in real time what’s happening in Kobani … you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,’ he says […]
Anti-IS war being led by a woman
BEIRUT: A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State militants in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani, a monitoring group and activists said Sunday. “Mayssa Abdo, known […]
The Nobel winner Pakistan won’t celebrate
Hindustan Times: The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai has been officially welcomed in Pakistan, but there is one Pakistani Nobel Prize winner the country continues to ignore and scorn: Abdus Salam, an Ahmadiya Muslim, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. The Ahmadiya community reportedly […]
Bill Maher’s horrible excuse: Why his defense of Islamophobia just doesn’t make any sense
Salon: Her words seem particularly apt this week in light of Bill Maher’s recent opening of the Islamophobic floodgates during his “Last Word” interview with Sam Harris and Ben Affleck. In the now infamous segment, Harris argues “Islam is the mother load of bad ideas” and that “We are misled to […]
Robert Fisk on Isis: Beware of the role of the laptop in our addiction to politics and war. – It is the internet not Isis that radicalises. The ‘virtual’ has dropped out of ‘virtual reality’
Ever since the Pentagon started talking about Isis as apocalyptic, I’ve suspected that websites and blogs and YouTube are taking over from reality. I’m even wondering whether “Isis” – or […]
Both Pakistan’s Nobel winners are united by the tragedy of forced exile
Scroll In: There is no escaping the irony that the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 has gone jointly to two child rights advocates from Pakistan and India – 17-year old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year old Kailash Satyarthi – while the armies of their countries trade bullets and kill innocents across […]
Islamic Scholars are Failing the Muslim World- Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan: ‘ISIL’s acts are un-Islamic’ The prominent Muslim academic on the threat of the Islamic State group and how scholars are failing the Muslim world. An ‘Islamic Caliphate’, a […]
A Muslim’s invitation to the new atheists: Dawkins, Ali, and Harris
Daily Caller: With Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an uproar over her unvitation from Brandeis University, and Richard Dawkins beginning his American tour, what better time to invite them to work together to […]