(Reuters) – U.S. employers ramped up hiring in September and the jobless rate fell to a six-year low, bolstering bets the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates in mid-2015. Friday’s report on employment is the most significant gauge of the economy’s health ahead of Nov. 4 congressional elections. While President […]
Mail Online: Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as some 2 million Muslims completed the annual pilgrimage to Arafat Elderly pilgrims sat in wheelchairs, babies in prams, and others […]
Source: peacesymposium.org.uk About the event The National Peace Symposium, held at the largest mosque in Western Europe, is a key event of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2014 marks the 11th Symposium to date. […]
Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA (Glen Ellyn Chapter) to Celebrate Festival of Sacrifice All Americans Are Invited To Join Our Celebrations Annual Muslim holiday commemorates Abraham’s sacrifice and marks completion of pilgrimage […]
Source: kokomotribune.com Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is preparing for Eid-ul-Adhia, which marks Prophet Abraham’s symbolic sacrifice and the close of the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Ka’aba in Mecca. The joyous day […]
Source: thejakartapost.com | news.asiaone.com Attacks against Ahmadis, the displacement of Shia followers and discrimination against [adherents of] local belief [systems] are problems that require an immediate response. Intolerance in the country had reached […]
Why did Qadri and Imran Fail? D. Suba ChandranAlmost after a month of intense politicking in Islamabad and the multiple calls to Azadi and Inquilab with few thousand men and women, why have Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri failed to achieve their primary objectives?It appears very clear, that there is […]
By CJ Werleman While polls and surveys can demonstrate a populace’s collective illiteracy on almost any issue, it’s impossible to encapsulate a nation’s collective ignorance of an entire religion, region, […]
RT: “A scarf is simply part of my outfit,” she told reporters. “It’s an ordinary fashion item for an ordinary woman.” A red scarf-wearing member of Japan’s upper house has […]
For one week, Kate Leaney – a Christian woman – has donned a scarf on her head in the Islamic tradition. It’s not because she’s trying stay warm – rather, […]
Canberra Muslim woman Nurcan Baran says she has stopped wearing her hijab for fear of being attacked. On Thursday Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry approved new interim rules to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate glass-enclosed public gallery in Federal Parliament. […]
theguardian: by Faiza Zerouala — Every day Meryem Belmokhtar turns her tidy sitting-room into a workshop. She lays out the equipment on the table, puts on rubber gloves and dips into various jars to make up 250g bags of sweets. Each packet is marked with her logo, featuring a stick […]
Posted by Rafiq A. Tschannen 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 […]
Daily Times: MAKKAH: Anxious to safeguard Hajj pilgrimage from the threat of Ebola, Saudi authorities are screening pilgrims arriving from West Africa and have deployed mobile laboratories to test any suspected cases quickly.The kingdom expects nearly 3 million pilgrims in Makkah this year, including 1.4 million from abroad. The health […]
Salon.com: The real terror threat Fox News conveniently ignores Fox News is increasingly fixating on the gruesome workplace beheading last week in Moore, Oklahoma by a recent Muslim convert, suspect Alton Nolen. Perhaps sensing a way to once again fan its patented flames of Islamophobia while simultaneously blaming President Obama for being indifferent to the threat of terrorism, […]
BBC News: UK Prime Minister David Cameron has promised new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Britain will always be a “strong partner and good friend”. Mr Cameron, on an unannounced visit to Kabul, said British armed forces had paid a “very high price” for their involvement in Afghanistan. Mr Ghani […]
Among the intake of students at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) this semester is a unique group from Angola. These young adults fought tough competition to secure places […]
Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum| The Daily Star The global financial crisis taught the world how profoundly interdependent our economies have become. In today’s crisis of extremism, we must recognize that […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR A French pilgrim who recently converted to Islam and drove 7,000 km in his car with his wife to perform Umrah is now in Makkah as […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 3 October 2014 Saudi authorities are planning to introduce a barcode system for Mina tents to help stranded pilgrims identify their tents with the assistance of Google maps. “A technology has been already developed for this purpose,” said Mohammed Al-Ruwaished, head of the […]